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Recommendations can greatly benefit from good representations of the user state at recommendation time. Recent approaches that leverage Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for session-based recommendations have shown that Deep Learning models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Elena Smirnova , Flavian Vasile

Generative recommendation (GenRec) models typically model user behavior via full attention, but scaling to lifelong sequences is hindered by prohibitive computational costs and noise accumulation from stochastic interactions. To address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Yixiao Chen , Yuan Wang , Yue Liu , Qiyao Wang , Ke Cheng , Xin Xu , Juntong Yan , Shuojin Yang , Menghao Guo , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu , Jie Jiang

Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility. Prior work encoded user-item interactions or metadata into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Keyu Zhao , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Although prevailing supervised and self-supervised learning augmented sequential recommendation (SeRec) models have achieved improved performance with powerful neural network architectures, we argue that they still suffer from two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xinping Zhao , Baotian Hu , Yan Zhong , Shouzheng Huang , Zihao Zheng , Meng Wang , Haofen Wang , Min Zhang

Sequential recommendation systems often struggle to make predictions or take action when dealing with cold-start items that have limited amount of interactions. In this work, we propose SimRec - a new approach to mitigate the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shaked Brody , Shoval Lagziel

Adapting Large Language Models for Recommendation (LLM4Rec) has shown promising results. However, the challenges of deploying LLM4Rec in real-world scenarios remain largely unexplored. In particular, recommender models need incremental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Tianhao Shi , Yang Zhang , Zhijian Xu , Chong Chen , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Qi Tian

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

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems (RS). It predicts a personalized click probability for each user-item pair. Recently, researchers have found that the performance of CTR model can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiwei Chen , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Sequential recommendation based on multi-interest framework models the user's recent interaction sequence into multiple different interest vectors, since a single low-dimensional vector cannot fully represent the diversity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Jie Zhang , Ke-Jia Chen , Jingqiang Chen

Test-time augmentation (TTA) has become a promising approach for mitigating data sparsity in sequential recommendation by improving inference accuracy without requiring costly model retraining. However, existing TTA methods typically rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xibo Li , Liang Zhang

Sequential recommendation aims to provide users with personalized suggestions based on their historical interactions. When training sequential models, padding is a widely adopted technique for two main reasons: 1) The vast majority of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yizhou Dang , Yuting Liu , Enneng Yang , Guibing Guo , Linying Jiang , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

Recommender systems help users find relevant items of interest, for example on e-commerce or media streaming sites. Most academic research is concerned with approaches that personalize the recommendations according to long-term user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Malte Ludewig , Dietmar Jannach

Time-series forecasting has seen significant advancements with the introduction of token prediction mechanisms such as multi-head attention. However, these methods often struggle to achieve the same performance as in language modeling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Panayiotis Christou , Shichu Chen , Xupeng Chen , Parijat Dube

Test-time training (TTT) methods explicitly update the weights of a model to adapt to the specific test instance, and they have found success in a variety of settings, including most recently language modeling and reasoning. To demystify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Halil Alperen Gozeten , M. Emrullah Ildiz , Xuechen Zhang , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Marco Mondelli , Samet Oymak

Since sequential information plays an important role in modeling user behaviors, various sequential recommendation methods have been proposed. Methods based on Markov assumption are widely-used, but independently combine several most recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Diyi Wang , Zhaokang Li , Liang Wang

Recently, significant progress has been made in sequential recommendation with deep learning. Existing neural sequential recommendation models usually rely on the item prediction loss to learn model parameters or data representations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Kun Zhou , Hui Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yutao Zhu , Sirui Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Test-Time Training (TTT) is an emerging paradigm that enables models to adapt their parameters during inference, improving performance on tasks such as few-shot learning, retrieval-augmented generation, and complex reasoning. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Simone Antonelli , Sadegh Akhondzadeh , Aleksandar Bojchevski

In this paper, we propose a novel sequence-aware recommendation model. Our model utilizes self-attention mechanism to infer the item-item relationship from user's historical interactions. With self-attention, it is able to estimate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Shuai Zhang , Yi Tay , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun

The context information such as product category plays a critical role in sequential recommendation. Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in context-aware sequential recommender systems. Existing studies often treat the contexts…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Ke Sun , Tieyun Qian