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Session-based Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are gaining increasing popularity for recommendation task, due to the high autocorrelation of user's behavior on the latest session and the effectiveness of RNN to capture the sequence order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Mei Wang , Weizhi Li , Yan Yan

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to model sequential behaviors of users to capture their interests which usually evolve over time. Transformer-based SRS have achieved distinguished successes recently. However, studies reveal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Sheng Lu , Mingxi Ge , Jiuyi Zhang , Wanli Zhu , Guanjin Li , Fangming Gu

Attention-based sequential recommendation methods have shown promise in accurately capturing users' evolving interests from their past interactions. Recent research has also explored the integration of reinforcement learning (RL) into these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Melissa Mozifian , Tristan Sylvain , Dave Evans , Lili Meng

In this paper, we develop a neural attentive interpretable recommendation system, named NAIRS. A self-attention network, as a key component of the system, is designed to assign attention weights to interacted items of a user. This attention…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Shuai Yu , Yongbo Wang , Min Yang , Baocheng Li , Qiang Qu , Jialie Shen

This paper proposes an attention module augmented relational network called SARN(Sequential Attention Relational Network) that can carry out relational reasoning by extracting reference objects and making efficient pairing between objects.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Jinwon An , Sungwon Lyu , Sungzoon Cho

State-of-the-art sequential recommendation relies heavily on self-attention-based recommender models. Yet such models are computationally expensive and often too slow for real-time recommendation. Furthermore, the self-attention operation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhenrui Yue , Yueqi Wang , Zhankui He , Huimin Zeng , Julian McAuley , Dong Wang

Self-attentive transformer models have recently been shown to solve the next item recommendation task very efficiently. The learned attention weights capture sequential dynamics in user behavior and generalize well. Motivated by the special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Evgeny Frolov , Ivan Oseledets

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

Recurrent Neural Networks architectures excel at processing sequences by modelling dependencies over different timescales. The recently introduced Recurrent Weighted Average (RWA) unit captures long term dependencies far better than an LSTM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Brendan Maginnis , Pierre H. Richemond

Attention-based sequence-to-sequence automatic speech recognition (ASR) requires a significant delay to recognize long utterances because the output is generated after receiving entire input sequences. Although several studies recently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Sashi Novitasari , Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

Sequential self-attention models usually rely on additive positional embeddings, which inject positional information into item representations at the input. In the absence of positional signals, the attention block is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Timur Nabiev , Evgeny Frolov

The success of self-attention lies in its ability to capture long-range dependencies and enhance context understanding, but it is limited by its computational complexity and challenges in handling sequential data with inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Md Kowsher , Nusrat Jahan Prottasha , Chun-Nam Yu , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay , Niloofar Yousefi

Apart from the high accuracy of machine learning models, what interests many researchers in real-life problems (e.g., fraud detection, credit scoring) is to find hidden patterns in data; particularly when dealing with their challenging…

The advent of Transformers marked a significant breakthrough in sequence modelling, providing a highly performant architecture capable of leveraging GPU parallelism. However, Transformers are computationally expensive at inference time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Leo Feng , Frederick Tung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Yoshua Bengio , Greg Mori

In this work, we develop new self-learning techniques with an attention-based sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model for automatic speech recognition (ASR). For untranscribed speech data, the hypothesis from an ASR system must be used as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-23 Kenichi Kumatani , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Yashesh Gaur , Robert Gmyr , Sefik Emre Eskimez , Jinyu Li , Michael Zeng

Pairwise dot product-based attention allows Transformers to exchange information between tokens in an input-dependent way, and is key to their success across diverse applications in language and vision. However, a typical Transformer model…

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict users' next click based on their behavior within a short period, which is crucial for online platforms. However, most existing SR methods somewhat ignore the fact that user preference is not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kai Ouyang , Xianghong Xu , Miaoxin Chen , Zuotong Xie , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shuangyong Song , Yu Zhao

This paper proposes a novel Attention-based Multi-Reference Super-resolution network (AMRSR) that, given a low-resolution image, learns to adaptively transfer the most similar texture from multiple reference images to the super-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Marco Pesavento , Marco Volino , Adrian Hilton

State-of-the-art results on neural machine translation often use attentional sequence-to-sequence models with some form of convolution or recursion. Vaswani et al. (2017) propose a new architecture that avoids recurrence and convolution…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Karim Ahmed , Nitish Shirish Keskar , Richard Socher

Transformer-based sequential recommenders are very powerful for capturing both short-term and long-term sequential item dependencies. This is mainly attributed to their unique self-attention networks to exploit pairwise item-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Huiyuan Chen , Yusan Lin , Menghai Pan , Lan Wang , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Xiaoting Li , Yan Zheng , Fei Wang , Hao Yang