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Accurate prediction of users' responses to items is one of the main aims of many computational advising applications. Examples include recommending movies, news articles, songs, jobs, clothes, books and so forth. Accurate prediction of…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-20 Baode Gao , Guangpeng Zhan , Hanzhang Wang , Yiming Wang , Shengxin Zhu

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

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a new paradigm in recommender systems. This approach relies on quantized representations to discretize item features, modeling users' historical interactions as sequences of discrete tokens.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fuwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Dongbo Xi , Jishen Yin , Huan Chen , Peng Yan , Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhao Zhang

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have generated considerable interest in their utilization for sequential recommendation tasks. While collaborative signals from similar users are central to recommendation modeling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tong Zhang

Building a graph neural network (GNN)-based recommender system without violating user privacy proves challenging. Existing methods can be divided into federated GNNs and decentralized GNNs. But both methods have undesirable effects, i.e.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Xiaolin Zheng , Zhongyu Wang , Chaochao Chen , Jiashu Qian , Yao Yang

Deep learning has brought great progress for the sequential recommendation (SR) tasks. With advanced network architectures, sequential recommender models can be stacked with many hidden layers, e.g., up to 100 layers on real-world…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiachun Wang , Fajie Yuan , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Min Yang , Yang Sun , Guoxiao Zhang

Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) has recently emerged as a popular method in recommendation systems (RS), closing the gap between metric learning and Collaborative Filtering. Following the convention of RS, existing methods exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Yuan He , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

The emerging meta- and multi-verse landscape is yet another step towards the more prevalent use of already ubiquitous online markets. In such markets, recommender systems play critical roles by offering items of interest to the users,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ehsan Gholami , Mohammad Motamedi , Ashwin Aravindakshan

The training paradigm integrating large language models (LLM) is gradually reshaping sequential recommender systems (SRS) and has shown promising results. However, most existing LLM-enhanced methods rely on rich textual information on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Dugang Liu , Shenxian Xian , Xiaolin Lin , Xiaolian Zhang , Hong Zhu , Yuan Fang , Zhen Chen , Zhong Ming

Interactive recommendation aims to learn from dynamic interactions between items and users to achieve responsiveness and accuracy. Reinforcement learning is inherently advantageous for coping with dynamic environments and thus has attracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Xiaocong Chen , Chaoran Huang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wei Liu , Wenjie Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great promise in recommender systems, where supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is commonly used for adaptation. Subsequent studies further introduce preference learning to incorporate negative samples into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Bingqian Li , Bowen Zheng , Xiaolei Wang , Long Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Sheng Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-rong Wen

Group Recommendation (GR), which aims to recommend items to groups of users, has become a promising and practical direction for recommendation systems. This paper points out two issues of the state-of-the-art GR models. (1) The pre-defined…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yue Liu , Shihao Zhu , Tianyuan Yang , Jian Ma , Wenliang Zhong

Recommender Systems (RSs) are exploited by various business enterprises to suggest their products (items) to consumers (users). Collaborative filtering (CF) is a widely used variant of RSs which learns hidden patterns from user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nikita Baidya , Bidyut Kr. Patra , Ratnakar Dash

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in various tasks, including personalized recommendations. Existing evaluation methods often focus on rating prediction, relying on regression errors between actual and predicted ratings. However, user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Zhaoxuan Tan , Zinan Zeng , Qingkai Zeng , Zhenyu Wu , Zheyuan Liu , Fengran Mo , Meng Jiang

Sequential recommendation aims at identifying the next item that is preferred by a user based on their behavioral history. Compared to conventional sequential models that leverage attention mechanisms and RNNs, recent efforts mainly follow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yu Tian , Jianxin Chang , Yannan Niu , Yang Song , Chenliang Li

Sequential recommendation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance using self-attention mechanism. It has since been found that moving beyond only using item ID and positional embeddings leads to a significant accuracy boost when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Linsey Pang , Amir Hossein Raffiee , Wei Liu , Keld Lundgaard

It has been an important task for recommender systems to suggest satisfying activities to a group of users in people's daily social life. The major challenge in this task is how to aggregate personal preferences of group members to infer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Hongzhi Yin , Qinyong Wang , Kai Zheng , Zhixu Li , Xiaofang Zhou

Modeling user-item interaction patterns is an important task for personalized recommendations. Many recommender systems are based on the assumption that there exists a linear relationship between users and items while neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Sen Wang , Guodong Long , Manqing Dong

Federated Recommendation can mitigate the systematical privacy risks of traditional recommendation since it allows the model training and online inferring without centralized user data collection. Most existing works assume that all user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jiangcheng Qin , Baisong Liu , Xueyuan Zhang , Jiangbo Qian

Inspired by advances in LLMs, reasoning-enhanced sequential recommendation performs multi-step deliberation before making final predictions, unlocking greater potential for capturing user preferences. However, current methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yifan Shao , Peilin Zhou , Shoujin Wang , Weizhi Zhang , Xu Cai , Sunghun Kim