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In this paper, we focus on multimedia recommender systems using graph convolutional networks (GCNs) where the multimodal features as well as user-item interactions are employed together. Our study aims to exploit multimodal features more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Yungi Kim , Taeri Kim , Won-Yong Shin , Sang-Wook Kim

Transformer-based sequential recommenders, such as SASRec or BERT4Rec, typically rely solely on learned item ID embeddings, making them vulnerable to the item cold-start problem, particularly in environments with dynamic item catalogs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jan Malte Lichtenberg , Antonio De Candia , Matteo Ruffini

Recent advances in path-based explainable recommendation systems have attracted increasing attention thanks to the rich information provided by knowledge graphs. Most existing explainable recommendations only utilize static knowledge graphs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yicong Li , Hongxu Chen , Yile Li , Lin Li , Philip S. Yu , Guandong Xu

The dominant retrieve-then-rank pipeline in large-scale recommender systems suffers from mis-calibration and engineering overhead due to its architectural split and differing optimization objectives. While recent generative sequence models…

Recently, multimodal recommendations (MMR) have gained increasing attention for alleviating the data sparsity problem of traditional recommender systems by incorporating modality-based representations. Although MMR exhibits notable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Weixin Chen , Li Chen , Yongxin Ni , Yuhan Zhao

Most existing multimodal collaborative filtering recommendation (MCFRec) methods rely heavily on ID features and multimodal content to enhance recommendation performance. However, this paper reveals that ID features are effective but have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Guohao Li , Li Jing , Jia Wu , Xuefei Li , Kai Zhu , Yue He

Semantic ID-based generative recommendation represents items as sequences of discrete tokens, but it inherently faces a trade-off between representational expressiveness and computational efficiency. Residual Quantization (RQ)-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ming Xia , Zhiqin Zhou , Guoxin Ma , Dongmin Huang

The goal of modern sequential recommender systems is often formulated in terms of next-item prediction. In this paper, we explore the applicability of generative transformer-based models for the Top-K sequential recommendation task, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Anna Volodkevich , Danil Gusak , Anton Klenitskiy , Alexey Vasilev

In recent years, substantial research efforts have been devoted to enhancing sequential recommender systems by integrating abundant side information with ID-based collaborative information. This study specifically focuses on leveraging the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

The objective of an expert recommendation system is to trace a set of candidates' expertise and preferences, recognize their expertise patterns, and identify experts. In this paper, we introduce a multimodal classification approach for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 N. Nikzad-Khasmakhi , M. A. Balafar , M. Reza Feizi-Derakhshi , Cina Motamed

Multi-interest recommendation has gained attention, especially in industrial retrieval stage. Unlike classical dual-tower methods, it generates multiple user representations instead of a single one to model comprehensive user interests.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Zhibo Wu , Yunfan Wu , Quan Liu , Lin Jiang , Ping Yang , Yao Hu

To address the challenge of information overload from massive web contents, recommender systems are widely applied to retrieve and present personalized results for users. However, recommendation tasks are inherently constrained to filtering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiongnan Liu , Zhicheng Dou , Ning Hu , Chenyan Xiong

Recently, neural networks have been widely used in e-commerce recommender systems, owing to the rapid development of deep learning. We formalize the recommender system as a sequential recommendation problem, intending to predict the next…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yukuo Cen , Jianwei Zhang , Xu Zou , Chang Zhou , Hongxia Yang , Jie Tang

Effectively retrieving, reasoning, and understanding multimodal information remains a critical challenge for agentic systems. Traditional Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) methods rely on linear interaction histories, which struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qiuchen Wang , Shihang Wang , Yu Zeng , Qiang Zhang , Fanrui Zhang , Zhuoning Guo , Bosi Zhang , Wenxuan Huang , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Pengjun Xie , Ruixue Ding

Sequential patterns play an important role in building modern recommender systems. To this end, several recommender systems have been built on top of Markov Chains and Recurrent Models (among others). Although these sequential models have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-28 An Yan , Shuo Cheng , Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

Recent advancements in recommender systems have focused on integrating knowledge graphs (KGs) to leverage their auxiliary information. The core idea of KG-enhanced recommenders is to incorporate rich semantic information for more accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Darnbi Sakong , Viet Hung Vu , Thanh Trung Huynh , Phi Le Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Thanh Tam Nguyen

The customization of recommended content to users holds significant importance in enhancing user experiences across a wide spectrum of applications such as e-commerce, music, and shopping. Graph-based methods have achieved considerable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Narges Sadat Fazeli Dehkordi , Hadi Zare , Parham Moradi , Mahdi Jalili

Multimodal recommender systems (MRSs) are critical for various online platforms, offering users more accurate personalized recommendations by incorporating multimodal information of items. Structure-based MRSs have achieved state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Ziyuan Guo , Jie Guo , Zhenghao Chen , Bin Song , Fei Richard Yu

Traditional recommender systems (RS) typically use user-item rating histories as their main data source. However, deep generative models now have the capability to model and sample from complex data distributions, including user-item…

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley