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Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) have become a cornerstone of online platforms, leveraging users' historical interaction data to forecast their next potential engagement. Despite their widespread adoption, SRS often grapple with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yuqi Sun , Qidong Liu , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian

Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into recommender systems has led to substantial performance improvements. However, this often comes at the cost of diminished recommendation diversity, which can negatively impact user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jiaju Chen , Chongming Gao , Shuai Yuan , Shuchang Liu , Qingpeng Cai , Peng Jiang

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

Recent deep sequential recommendation models often struggle to effectively model key characteristics of user behaviors, particularly in handling sequence length variations and capturing diverse interaction patterns. We propose STAR-Rec, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Maolin Wang , Sheng Zhang , Ruocheng Guo , Wanyu Wang , Xuetao Wei , Zitao Liu , Hongzhi Yin , Yi Chang , Xiangyu Zhao

The modern recommender systems are facing an increasing challenge of modelling and predicting the dynamic and context-rich user preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering and content-based methods often struggle to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yitong Li , Raoul Grasman

Generative recommendation plays a crucial role in personalized systems, predicting users' future interactions from their historical behavior sequences. A critical yet underexplored factor in training these models is data augmentation, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Geon Lee , Bhuvesh Kumar , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Kijung Shin , Neil Shah , Liam Collins

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

Recommender systems have demonstrated significant impact across diverse domains, yet ensuring the reproducibility of experimental findings remains a persistent challenge. A primary obstacle lies in the fragmented and often opaque data…

Traditional recommender systems such as matrix factorization methods have primarily focused on learning a shared dense embedding space to represent both items and user preferences. Subsequently, sequence models such as RNN, GRUs, and,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yaoyiran Li , Xiang Zhai , Moustafa Alzantot , Keyi Yu , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen , Mohamed Hammad

The user purchase behaviors are mainly influenced by their intentions (e.g., buying clothes for decoration, buying brushes for painting, etc.). Modeling a user's latent intention can significantly improve the performance of recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Guanfeng Liu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Victor S. Sheng

Collecting and annotating datasets for pixel-level semantic segmentation tasks are highly labor-intensive. Data augmentation provides a viable solution by enhancing model generalization without additional real-world data collection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Huy Che , Dinh-Duy Phan , Duc-Khai Lam

Users prefer diverse recommendations over homogeneous ones. However, most previous work on Sequential Recommenders does not consider diversity, and strives for maximum accuracy, resulting in homogeneous recommendations. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Anton Steenvoorden , Emanuele Di Gloria , Wanyu Chen , Pengjie Ren , Maarten de Rijke

Recent advances in correlation-based sequential recommendation systems have demonstrated substantial success. Specifically, the attention-based model outperforms other RNN-based and Markov chains-based models by capturing both short- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yunbo Hou , Tianle Yang , Ruijie Li , Li He , Liang Wang , Weiping Li , Bo Zheng , Guojie Song

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

Recent advancements in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have led to the development of NLP-based recommender systems that have shown superior performance. However, current models commonly treat items as mere IDs and adopt discriminative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jinming Li , Wentao Zhang , Tian Wang , Guanglei Xiong , Alan Lu , Gerard Medioni

Sequential recommendation is dedicated to offering items of interest for users based on their history behaviors. The attribute-opinion pairs, expressed by users in their reviews for items, provide the potentials to capture user preferences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Youlin Wu , Yuan Zhong , Hongfei Lin , Fenglong Ma

The application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in recommender systems faces key challenges in delivering deep personalization and intelligent reasoning, especially for interactive scenarios. Current methods are often constrained by limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Jiani Huang , Xingchen Zou , Lianghao Xia , Qing Li

Sequential Recommendation is a popular recommendation task that uses the order of user-item interaction to model evolving users' interests and sequential patterns in their behaviour. Current state-of-the-art Transformer-based models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

In the era of information explosion, Recommender Systems (RS) are essential for alleviating information overload and providing personalized user experiences. Recent advances in diffusion-based generative recommenders have shown promise in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chengyi Liu , Xiao Chen , Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li