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Recent advancements of sequential deep learning models such as Transformer and BERT have significantly facilitated the sequential recommendation. However, according to our study, the distribution of item embeddings generated by these models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin , Zijian Wang

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict a user's next item preference by modeling historical interaction sequences. Recent advances often integrate frequency-domain modules to compensate for self-attention's low-pass nature by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Peng He , Yao Liu , Yanglei Gan , Run Lin , Tingting Dai , Qiao Liu , Xuexin Li

Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

Repeat consumption, such as repurchasing items and relistening songs, is a common scenario in daily life. To model repeat consumption, the repeat-aware recommendation has been proposed to predict which item will be re-interacted based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shigang Quan , Shui Liu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Fan Wu

Conversion objectives in large-scale recommender systems are sparse, making them difficult to optimize. Generative recommendation (GR) partially alleviates data sparsity by organizing multi-type behaviors into a unified token sequence with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yulei Huang , Hao Deng , Haibo Xing , Jinxin Hu , Chuanfei Xu , Zulong Chen , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Nowadays, news apps have taken over the popularity of paper-based media, providing a great opportunity for personalization. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based sequential recommendation is a popular approach that utilizes users' recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Bing Bai , Guanhua Zhang , Ye Lin , Hao Li , Kun Bai , Bo Luo

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…

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The personalized recommendation is an essential part of modern e-commerce, where user's demands are not only conditioned by their profile but also by their recent browsing behaviors as well as periodical purchases made some time ago. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiarui Jin , Xianyu Chen , Weinan Zhang , Junjie Huang , Ziming Feng , Yong Yu

Contrastive learning has proven effective in training sequential recommendation models by incorporating self-supervised signals from augmented views. Most existing methods generate multiple views from the same interaction sequence through…

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Sequential recommendation methods can capture dynamic user preferences from user historical interactions to achieve better performance. However, most existing methods only use past information extracted from user historical interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiafeng Xia , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Li Shang , Ning Gu

The self-attention mechanism, which equips with a strong capability of modeling long-range dependencies, is one of the extensively used techniques in the sequential recommendation field. However, many recent studies represent that current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Xinyu Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Jianfeng Qu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor S. Sheng

Sequential recommendation aims to leverage users' historical behaviors to predict their next interaction. Existing works have not yet addressed two main challenges in sequential recommendation. First, user behaviors in their rich historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jianxin Chang , Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Yiqun Hui , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Recommender systems (RS) suggest items-based on the estimated preferences of users. Recent RS methods utilise vector space embeddings and deep learning methods to make efficient recommendations. However, most of these methods overlook the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy

Contrastive Learning (CL) performances as a rising approach to address the challenge of sparse and noisy recommendation data. Although having achieved promising results, most existing CL methods only perform either hand-crafted data or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Guanfeng Liu , Victor Sheng

Learning effective latent representations for users and items is the cornerstone of recommender systems. Traditional approaches rely on user-item interaction data to map users and items into a shared latent space, but the sparsity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hoang V. Dong , Yuan Fang , Hady W. Lauw

Recurrent neural networks have proven effective in modeling sequential user feedbacks for recommender systems. However, they usually focus solely on item relevance and fail to effectively explore diverse items for users, therefore harming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Hao Wang , Yifei Ma , Hao Ding , Yuyang Wang

Recent years have seen a significant amount of interests in Sequential Recommendation (SR), which aims to understand and model the sequential user behaviors and the interactions between users and items over time. Surprisingly, despite the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Dadong Miao , Yanan Wang , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Bo Long , Yun Xiao , Lingfei Wu , Yunjiang Jiang

Sequential recommendation is an extensively explored approach to capturing users' evolving preferences based on past interactions, aimed at predicting their next likely choice. Despite significant advancements in this domain, including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kowei Shih , Yi Han , Li Tan

While some powerful neural network architectures (e.g., Transformer, Graph Neural Networks) have achieved improved performance in sequential recommendation with high-order item dependency modeling, they may suffer from poor representation…

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