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The personalized recommendation is an essential part of modern e-commerce, where user's demands are not only conditioned by their profile but also by their recent browsing behaviors as well as periodical purchases made some time ago. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiarui Jin , Xianyu Chen , Weinan Zhang , Junjie Huang , Ziming Feng , Yong Yu

Sequential recommendation methods are increasingly important in cutting-edge recommender systems. Through leveraging historical records, the systems can capture user interests and perform recommendations accordingly. State-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chong Liu , Xiaoyang Liu , Rongqin Zheng , Lixin Zhang , Xiaobo Liang , Juntao Li , Lijun Wu , Min Zhang , Leyu Lin

Inspired by advances in LLMs, reasoning-enhanced sequential recommendation performs multi-step deliberation before making final predictions, unlocking greater potential for capturing user preferences. However, current methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yifan Shao , Peilin Zhou , Shoujin Wang , Weizhi Zhang , Xu Cai , Sunghun Kim

The sequential recommendation system has been widely studied for its promising effectiveness in capturing dynamic preferences buried in users' sequential behaviors. Despite the considerable achievements, existing methods usually focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Xiang Xu , Likang Wu , Sirui Zhao , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Ruiming Tang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

This paper is an extended version of [Burashnikova et al., 2021, arXiv: 2012.06910], where we proposed a theoretically supported sequential strategy for training a large-scale Recommender System (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Franck Iutzeler , Massih-Reza Amini

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict a user's next item preference by modeling historical interaction sequences. Recent advances often integrate frequency-domain modules to compensate for self-attention's low-pass nature by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng He , Yao Liu , Yanglei Gan , Run Lin , Tingting Dai , Qiao Liu , Xuexin Li

Given a sequence of sets, where each set has a timestamp and contains an arbitrary number of elements, temporal sets prediction aims to predict the elements in the subsequent set. Previous studies for temporal sets prediction mainly focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Le Yu , Zihang Liu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Chuanren Liu , Weifeng Lv

Sequential recommendation, where user preference is dynamically inferred from sequential historical behaviors, is a critical task in recommender systems (RSs). To further optimize long-term user engagement, offline…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jun Wang , Likang Wu , Qi Liu , Yu Yang

Sequential recommender systems aim to model users' evolving preferences by capturing patterns in their historical interactions. Recent advances in this area have leveraged deep neural networks and attention mechanisms to effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Siqi Liang , Yudi Zhang , Yubo Wang

The modern recommender systems are facing an increasing challenge of modelling and predicting the dynamic and context-rich user preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering and content-based methods often struggle to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yitong Li , Raoul Grasman

Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xia Hu

The sequential recommendation system utilizes historical user interactions to predict preferences. Effectively integrating diverse user behavior patterns with rich multimodal information of items to enhance the accuracy of sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xiaoxi Cui , Weihai Lu , Yu Tong , Yiheng Li , Zhejun Zhao

With the rapid development of recommender systems, there is increasing side information that can be employed to improve the recommendation performance. Specially, we focus on the utilization of the associated \emph{textual data} of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Lanling Xu , Zhen Tian , Bingqian Li , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Mingchen Cai , Wayne Xin Zhao

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide highquality recommendations in conversations. However, most conventional CRS models mainly focus on the dialogue understanding of the current session, ignoring other rich multi-aspect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Shuokai Li , Ruobing Xie , Yongchun Zhu , Xiang Ao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He

Contrastive learning has shown effectiveness in improving sequential recommendation models. However, existing methods still face challenges in generating high-quality contrastive pairs: they either rely on random perturbations that corrupt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ziqiang Cui , Yunpeng Weng , Xing Tang , Xiaokun Zhang , Shiwei Li , Peiyang Liu , Bowei He , Dugang Liu , Weihong Luo , Xiuqiang He , Chen Ma

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have been changing the paradigm of Recommender Systems (RS). However, when items in the recommendation scenarios contain rich textual information, such as product descriptions in online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Zhi Zheng , Wenshuo Chao , Zhaopeng Qiu , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

Recommender systems have played an increasingly important role in providing users with tailored suggestions based on their preferences. However, the conventional offline recommender systems cannot handle the ubiquitous data stream well. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Yan Zhao , Shoujin Wang , Yan Wang , Hongwei Liu

Understanding user interests is crucial for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In sequential recommendation, pre-training from user historical behaviors through self-supervised learning can better comprehend user dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ruidong Han , Qianzhong Li , He Jiang , Rui Li , Yurou Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is able to obtain fine-grained and dynamic user preferences based on interactive dialogue. Previous CRS assumes that the user has a clear target item. However, for many users who resort to CRS,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yiming Zhang , Lingfei Wu , Qi Shen , Yitong Pang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Bo Long , Jian Pei