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Sequential Recommendationdescribes a set of techniques to model dynamic user behavior in order to predict future interactions in sequential user data. At their core, such approaches model transition probabilities between items in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Philip S. Yu , Julian McAuley , Caiming Xiong

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

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

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to alleviate data sparsity by transferring knowledge across domains, yet existing methods primarily rely on coarse-grained behavioral signals and often overlook intra-domain heterogeneity in user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Daehee Kang , Yeon-Chang Lee

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resourceful sequential patterns embedded in the behavior history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jiarui Qin , Kan Ren , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Sequential recommendation (SR) plays an important role in personalized recommender systems because it captures dynamic and diverse preferences from users' real-time increasing behaviors. Unlike the standard autoregressive training strategy,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Hengyu Zhang , Enming Yuan , Wei Guo , Zhicheng He , Jiarui Qin , Huifeng Guo , Bo Chen , Xiu Li , Ruiming Tang

The recommendation system plays a vital role in many areas, especially academic fields, to support researchers in submitting and increasing the acceptance of their work through the conference or journal selection process. This study…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Duc H. Le , Tram T. Doan , Son T. Huynh , Binh T. Nguyen

Natural content and advertisement coexist in industrial recommendation systems but differ in data distribution. Concretely, traffic related to the advertisement is considerably sparser compared to that of natural content, which motivates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Qi Liu , Xingyuan Tang , Jianqiang Huang , Xiangqian Yu , Haoran Jin , Jin Chen , Yuanhao Pu , Defu Lian , Tan Qu , Zhe Wang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

While sequential recommendation achieves significant progress on capturing user-item transition patterns, transferring such large-scale recommender systems remains challenging due to the disjoint user and item groups across domains. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Yang Zhang , Julian McAuley , Dong Wang

Designing effective task sequences is crucial for curriculum reinforcement learning (CRL), where agents must gradually acquire skills by training on intermediate tasks. A key challenge in CRL is to identify tasks that promote exploration,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Geonwoo Cho , Jaegyun Im , Doyoon Kim , Sundong Kim

Sequential recommendation (SR) tasks aim to predict users' next interaction by learning their behavior sequence and capturing the connection between users' past interactions and their changing preferences. Conventional SR models often focus…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Haoyi Zhang , Guohao Sun , Jinhu Lu , Guanfeng Liu , Xiu Susie Fang

Absence of large-scale labeled data in the practitioner's target domain can be a bottleneck to applying machine learning algorithms in practice. Transfer learning is a popular strategy for leveraging additional data to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Sasha Doubov , David Acuna , Sanja Fidler

Domain Randomization (DR) is commonly used for sim2real transfer of reinforcement learning (RL) policies in robotics. Most DR approaches require a simulator with a fixed set of tunable parameters from the start of the training, from which…

Nowadays, many recommender systems encompass various domains to cater to users' diverse needs, leading to user behaviors transitioning across different domains. In fact, user behaviors across different domains reveal changes in preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Changshuo Zhang , Teng Shi , Xiao Zhang , Qi Liu , Ruobing Xie , Jun Xu , Ji-Rong Wen

In recent years, dual-target Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) has been proposed to capture comprehensive user preferences in order to ultimately enhance the recommendation accuracy in both data-richer and data-sparser domains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jiajie Zhu , Yan Wang , Feng Zhu , Zhu Sun

Transferring knowledge in cross-domain reinforcement learning is a challenging setting in which learning is accelerated by reusing knowledge from a task with different observation and/or action space. However, it is often necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Sergio A. Serrano , Jose Martinez-Carranza , L. Enrique Sucar

Personalized sequential recommendation aims to predict appropriate items for users based on their behavioral sequences. To alleviate data sparsity and interest drift issues, conventional approaches typically incorporate auxiliary behaviors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Yongfu Zha , Xinxin Dong , Haokai Ma , Yonghui Yang , Xiaodong Wang

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) has recently gained attention for countering data sparsity by transferring knowledge across domains. A common approach merges domain-specific sequences into cross-domain sequences, serving as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Qingtian Bian , Marcus Vinícius de Carvalho , Tieying Li , Jiaxing Xu , Hui Fang , Yiping Ke

We consider the task of learning from both positive and negative feedback in a sequential recommendation scenario, as both types of feedback are often present in user interactions. Meanwhile, conventional sequential learning models usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Veronika Ivanova , Evgeny Frolov , Alexey Vasilev

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is an effective way to alleviate the cold-start problem. However, previous work severely ignores fairness and bias when learning the mapping function, which is used to obtain the representations for fresh…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiakai Tang , Xu Chen , Xueyang Feng