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Large scale recommender models find most relevant items from huge catalogs, and they play a critical role in modern search and recommendation systems. To model the input space with large-vocab categorical features, a typical recommender…

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) aim to predict users' subsequent choices based on their historical interactions and have found applications in diverse fields such as e-commerce and social media. However, in real-world systems, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Yejing Wang , Zijian Zhang , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) models learn low-dimensional item ID embeddings from user-item interactions, often overlooking textual information such as item titles or descriptions. Recent advances in Large Language Models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yu Cui , Feng Liu , Zhaoxiang Wang , Changwang Zhang , Jun Wang , Can Wang , Jiawei Chen

Sequential recommendation aims to capture users' dynamic interest and predicts the next item of users' preference. Most sequential recommendation methods use a deep neural network as sequence encoder to generate user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Hanwen Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Lei Zhao , Victor S. Sheng

In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL methods rely on explicit item IDs for developing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yupeng Hou , Shanlei Mu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Ji-Rong Wen

In this paper, we propose a robust sequential learning strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback mainly in the form of clicks. Our approach relies on the minimization of a pairwise ranking loss over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alexandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactions. Despite their success, we argue that these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xu Xie , Fei Sun , Zhaoyang Liu , Shiwen Wu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Bin Cui

Modeling the evolution of user preference is essential in recommender systems. Recently, dynamic graph-based methods have been studied and achieved SOTA for recommendation, majority of which focus on user's stable long-term preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Huixuan Chi , Hao Xu , Hao Fu , Mengya Liu , Mengdi Zhang , Yuji Yang , Qinfen Hao , Wei Wu

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are designed to suggest the target item that the user is likely to prefer through multi-turn conversations. Recent studies stress that capturing sentiments in user conversations improves…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Heejin Kook , Junyoung Kim , Seongmin Park , Jongwuk Lee

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Recommender systems (RSs) have emerged as very useful tools to help customers with their decision-making process, find items of their interest, and alleviate the information overload problem. There are two different lines of approaches in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shahpar Yakhchi

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) have become the key technology in capturing user's dynamic interests and generating high-quality recommendations. Current state-of-the-art sequential recommender models are typically based on a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Yang Sun , Fajie Yuan , Min Yang , Guoao Wei , Zhou Zhao , Duo Liu

Recent cross-domain recommendation (CDR) studies assume that disentangled domain-shared and domain-specific user representations can mitigate domain gaps and facilitate effective knowledge transfer. However, achieving perfect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Michael Sheng , Lina Yao

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 Recommender Systems (SRS), which model a user's interaction history to predict the next item of interest, are widely used in various applications. However, existing SRS often struggle with low-popularity items, a challenge known…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Wanyu Wang , Yejing Wang , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng

Social recommendations utilize social relations to enhance the representation learning for recommendations. Most social recommendation models unify user representations for the user-item interactions (collaborative domain) and social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Jiahao Wu , Wenqi Fan , Jingfan Chen , Shengcai Liu , Qing Li , Ke Tang

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns from the temporal dynamics of user-item interactions to predict the next ones. Fairness-aware recommendation mitigates a variety of algorithmic biases in the learning of user preferences. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Cheng-Te Li , Cheng Hsu , Yang Zhang

Writing review for a purchased item is a unique channel to express a user's opinion in E-Commerce. Recently, many deep learning based solutions have been proposed by exploiting user reviews for rating prediction. In contrast, there has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Chenliang Li , Xichuan Niu , Xiangyang Luo , Zhenzhong Chen , Cong Quan

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Session-based recommendation systems(SBRS) are more suitable for the current e-commerce and streaming media recommendation scenarios and thus have become a hot topic. The data encountered by SBRS is typically highly sparse, which also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zihan Wang , Gang Wu , Haotong Wang