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Recommender systems easily face the issue of user preference shifts. User representations will become out-of-date and lead to inappropriate recommendations if user preference has shifted over time. To solve the issue, existing work focuses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Wenjie Wang , Xinyu Lin , Liuhui Wang , Fuli Feng , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Mainstream solutions to Sequential Recommendation (SR) represent items with fixed vectors. These vectors have limited capability in capturing items' latent aspects and users' diverse preferences. As a new generative paradigm, Diffusion…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zihao Li , Aixin Sun , Chenliang Li

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) aim to suggest next item for a user based on her historical interaction sequences. Recently, many research efforts have been devoted to attenuate the influence of noisy items in sequences by either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaofei Zhu , Liang Li , Weidong Liu , Xin Luo

Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning (CDFSL) adapts models trained with large-scale general data (source domain) to downstream target domains with only scarce training data, where the research on vision-language models (e.g., CLIP) is still in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yaze Zhao , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been attracting increasing attention of researchers for its ability to alleviate the data sparsity problem in recommender systems. However, the existing single-target or dual-target CDR methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xiaoyun Zhao , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommendation seeks to model the evolution of user interests by capturing temporal user intent and item-level transition patterns. Transformer-based recommenders demonstrate a strong capacity for learning long-range and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Sijia Li , Min Gao , Zongwei Wang , Zhiyi Liu , Xin Xia , Yi Zhang

The goal of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user's potential interested items based on her/his historical interaction sequences. Most existing sequential recommenders are developed based on ID features, which, despite their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinpeng Wang , Ziyun Zeng , Yunxiao Wang , Yuting Wang , Xingyu Lu , Tianxiang Li , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shu-Tao Xia

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns from the temporal dynamics of user-item interactions to predict the next ones. Fairness-aware recommendation mitigates a variety of algorithmic biases in the learning of user preferences. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Cheng-Te Li , Cheng Hsu , Yang Zhang

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to model user preferences by capturing behavior patterns from their item historical interaction data. Most existing methods model user preference in the time domain, omitting the fact that users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xinyu Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Guanfeng Liu , Yanchi Liu , Victor S. Sheng , Xiaofang Zhou

Recommender systems are widely used in various real-world applications, but they often encounter the persistent challenge of the user cold-start problem. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR), which leverages user interactions from one domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Hourun Li , Yifan Wang , Zhiping Xiao , Jia Yang , Changling Zhou , Ming Zhang , Wei Ju

CDR (Cross-Domain Recommendation), i.e., leveraging information from multiple domains, is a critical solution to data sparsity problem in recommendation system. The majority of previous research either focused on single-target CDR (STCDR)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xiaopeng Liu , Juan Zhang , Chongqi Ren , Shenghui Xu , Zhaoming Pan , Zhimin Zhang

Different from most conventional recommendation problems, sequential recommendation focuses on learning users' preferences by exploiting the internal order and dependency among the interacted items, which has received significant attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Liwei Pan , Weike Pan , Meiyan Wei , Hongzhi Yin , Zhong Ming

Contrastive learning has been effectively utilized to enhance the training of sequential recommendation models by leveraging informative self-supervised signals. Most existing approaches generate augmented views of the same user sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ziqiang Cui , Haolun Wu , Bowei He , Ji Cheng , Chen Ma

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Hao Wang , Naiyan Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung

The sequential recommendation systems capture users' dynamic behavior patterns to predict their next interaction behaviors. Most existing sequential recommendation methods only exploit the local context information of an individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Yixin Zhang , Yong Liu , Yonghui Xu , Hao Xiong , Chenyi Lei , Wei He , Lizhen Cui , Chunyan Miao

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict items that users may be interested in based on their historical behavior sequences. We revisit SR from a novel information-theoretic perspective and find that conventional sequential modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Wenjia Xie , Hao Wang , Luankang Zhang , Rui Zhou , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is a promising paradigm inspired by transfer learning to solve the cold-start problem in recommender systems. Existing state-of-the-art CDR methods train an explicit mapping function to transfer the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Guohang Zeng , Qian Zhang , Guangquan Zhang , Jie Lu

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to predict users' next interaction based on their historical behaviors, while still facing the challenge of data sparsity. With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyao Huang , Qidong Liu , Wenxuan Yang , Moranxin Wang , Yuqi Sun , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

Click-through rate prediction plays an important role in the field of recommender system and many other applications. Existing methods mainly extract user interests from user historical behaviors. However, behavioral sequences only contain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yunfei Chu , Xiaofu Chang , Kunyang Jia , Jingzhen Zhou , Hongxia Yang

In order to model the evolution of user preference, we should learn user/item embeddings based on time-ordered item purchasing sequences, which is defined as Sequential Recommendation (SR) problem. Existing methods leverage sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Jiawei Zhang , Yun Xiong , Lei Zheng , Philip S. Yu