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Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm for offering personalized recommendations through natural language dialogue. However, they face challenges with knowledge sparsity, as users often provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhangchi Qiu , Linhao Luo , Zicheng Zhao , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) enhance recommendation quality by engaging users in multi-turn dialogues, capturing nuanced preferences through natural language interactions. However, these systems often face the false negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Haozhe Xu , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng

Conversational and question-based recommender systems have gained increasing attention in recent years, with users enabled to converse with the system and better control recommendations. Nevertheless, research in the field is still limited,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jie Zou , Yifan Chen , Evangelos Kanoulas

Knowledge Graph (KG), as a side-information, tends to be utilized to supplement the collaborative filtering (CF) based recommendation model. By mapping items with the entities in KGs, prior studies mostly extract the knowledge information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang , Liqiang Nie , Shaoyu Li , Dingxian Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

To alleviate sparsity and cold start problem of collaborative filtering based recommender systems, researchers and engineers usually collect attributes of users and items, and design delicate algorithms to exploit these additional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Hongwei Wang , Miao Zhao , Xing Xie , Wenjie Li , Minyi Guo

In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), a user provides feedback on recommended items at each turn, leading the CRS towards improved recommendations. Due to the need for a large amount of data, a user simulator is employed for both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Maria Vlachou

With the development of the online education system, personalized education recommendation has played an essential role. In this paper, we focus on developing path recommendation systems that aim to generating and recommending an entire…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Xianyu Chen , Jian Shen , Wei Xia , Jiarui Jin , Yakun Song , Weinan Zhang , Weiwen Liu , Menghui Zhu , Ruiming Tang , Kai Dong , Dingyin Xia , Yong Yu

Sequential recommendation aims to choose the most suitable items for a user at a specific timestamp given historical behaviors. Existing methods usually model the user behavior sequence based on the transition-based methods like Markov…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Fengzhu Wu , Sili Zhang , Hao Gu , Yuexing Hao , Yuguang

Top-$N$ sequential recommendation models each user as a sequence of items interacted in the past and aims to predict top-$N$ ranked items that a user will likely interact in a `near future'. The order of interaction implies that sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jiaxi Tang , Ke Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for recommendation thanks to their advanced textual understanding ability and context-awareness. Despite the current practice of training and evaluating LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Kibum Kim , Jiwan Kim , Donghyun Kim , Minchul Yang , Kwangjin Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm by formulating item recommendation as a sequence-to-sequence generation task over item identifiers. Recent studies have incorporated multimodal signals to provide richer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wei Chen , Xingyu Guo , Shuang Li , Fuwei Zhang , Meng Yuan , Jing Fan , Zhao Zhang , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

The essence of sequential recommender systems (RecSys) lies in understanding how users make decisions. Most existing approaches frame the task as sequential prediction based on users' historical purchase records. While effective in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xiaoyu Liu , Jiaxin Yuan , Yuhang Zhou , Jingling Li , Furong Huang , Wei Ai

Sequential recommender systems predict items that may interest users by modeling their preferences based on historical interactions. Traditional sequential recommendation methods rely on capturing implicit collaborative filtering signals…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai , Min Zhang

In the information explosion era, recommender systems (RSs) are widely studied and applied to discover user-preferred information. A RS performs poorly when suffering from the cold-start issue, which can be alleviated if incorporating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Yu Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Ziwei Fan , Lichao Sun , Philip S. Yu

Session-based recommendation which has been witnessed a booming interest recently, focuses on predicting a user's next interested item(s) based on an anonymous session. Most existing studies adopt complex deep learning techniques (e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Huizi Wu , Cong Geng , Hui Fang

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

Sequential Recommendation aims to recommend items that a target user will interact with in the near future based on the historically interacted items. While modeling temporal dynamics is crucial for sequential recommendation, most of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Zeyuan Chen , Wei Zhang , Junchi Yan , Gang Wang , Jianyong Wang

Recent recommender system advancements have focused on developing sequence-based and graph-based approaches. Both approaches proved useful in modeling intricate relationships within behavioral data, leading to promising outcomes in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Vladimir Baikalov , Evgeny Frolov

Shared-account Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (SCSR) task aims to recommend the next item via leveraging the mixed user behaviors in multiple domains. It is gaining immense research attention as more and more users tend to sign up…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Lei Guo , Jinyu Zhang , Li Tang , Tong Chen , Lei Zhu , Hongzhi Yin