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Autoregressive (AR) language models generate text one token at a time, even when consecutive tokens are highly predictable given earlier context. We introduce MARS (Mask AutoRegreSsion), a lightweight fine-tuning method that teaches an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ziqi Jin , Lei Wang , Ziwei Luo , Aixin Sun

Recommender Systems are an integral part of music sharing platforms. Often the aim of these systems is to increase the time, the user spends on the platform and hence having a high commercial value. The systems which aim at increasing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Noveen Sachdeva , Kartik Gupta , Vikram Pudi

Session-based recommendation aims at predicting the next item given a sequence of previous items consumed in the session, e.g., on e-commerce or multimedia streaming services. Specifically, session data exhibits some unique characteristics,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Minjin Choi , jinhong Kim , Joonseok Lee , Hyunjung Shim , Jongwuk Lee

Item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) has been widely used in industrial applications such as recommender system and online advertising. It models users' preference on target items by the items they have interacted with. Recent models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yinjiang Cai , Zeyu Cui , Shu Wu , Zhen Lei , Xibo Ma

Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to uncover and transfer users' sequential preferences across multiple recommendation domains. While significant endeavors have been made, they primarily concentrated on developing advanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Zhi Li , Sirui Zhao , Zhen Wang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in natural language understanding, yet their reasoning capabilities remain limited when operating as single agents. Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) has been proposed to address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xiao Wang , Jia Wang , Yijie Wang , Pengtao Dang , Sha Cao , Chi Zhang

Sequential recommendation (SR) models often capture user preferences based on the historically interacted item IDs, which usually obtain sub-optimal performance when the interaction history is limited. Content-based sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Donglin Zhou , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Recently, relational metric learning methods have been received great attention in recommendation community, which is inspired by the translation mechanism in knowledge graph. Different from the knowledge graph where the entity-to-entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingming Li , Fuqing Zhu , Feng Yuan , Songlin Hu

Recommender systems have been widely applied to assist user's decision making by providing a list of personalized item recommendations. Context-aware recommender systems (CARS) additionally take context information into considering in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Yong Zheng

Sequential recommendation aims to identify and recommend the next few items for a user that the user is most likely to purchase/review, given the user's purchase/rating trajectories. It becomes an effective tool to help users select…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bo Peng , Zhiyun Ren , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

Sequential Recommendation (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world recommender systems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

In recommender systems, modeling user-item behaviors is essential for user representation learning. Existing sequential recommenders consider the sequential correlations between historically interacted items for capturing users' historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Yujie Lu , Shengyu Zhang , Yingxuan Huang , Luyao Wang , Xinyao Yu , Zhou Zhao , Fei Wu

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) aim to predict the next item that users will consume, by modeling the user interests within their item sequences. While most existing SRSs focus on a single type of user behavior, only a few pay…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Junsu Cho , Dongmin Hyun , Dong won Lim , Hyeon jae Cheon , Hyoung-iel Park , Hwanjo Yu

Leveraging long-term user behavioral patterns is a key trajectory for enhancing the accuracy of modern recommender systems. While generative recommender systems have emerged as a transformative paradigm, they face hurdles in effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shiteng Cao , Junda She , Ji Liu , Bin Zeng , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Zhiheng Li , Cheng Yang

Sequential recommendation is essential in modern recommender systems, aiming to predict the next item a user may interact with based on their historical behaviors. However, real-world scenarios are often dynamic and subject to shifts in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Changshuo Zhang , Xiao Zhang , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Ji-Rong Wen

Existing review-based recommendation methods usually use the same model to learn the representations of all users/items from reviews posted by users towards items. However, different users have different preference and different items have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hongtao Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Wenjun Wang , Xianchen Wang , Pengfei Jiao , Chuhan Wu , Xing Xie

While many production-ready and robust algorithms are available for the task of recommendation systems, many of these systems do not take the order of user's consumption into account. The order of consumption can be very useful and matters…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Meysam Varasteh , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi

We propose an algorithm for next query recommendation in interactive data exploration settings, like knowledge discovery for information gathering. The state-of-the-art query recommendation algorithms are based on sequence-to-sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Shameem A Puthiya Parambath , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Roderick Murray-Smith

Recommender systems can be formulated as a matrix completion problem, predicting ratings from user and item parameter vectors. Optimizing these parameters by subsampling data becomes difficult as the number of users and items grows. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Elias Tragas , Calvin Luo , Maxime Gazeau , Kevin Luk , David Duvenaud