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Large Language Models (LLMs) have been integrated into recommendation systems to enhance user behavior comprehension. The Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) technique is further incorporated into these systems to retrieve more relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jian Xu , Sichun Luo , Xiangyu Chen , Haoming Huang , Hanxu Hou , Linqi Song

There has been a growing interest in benchmarking sequential recommendation models and reproducing/improving existing models. For example, Rendle et al. improved matrix factorization models by tuning their parameters and hyperparameters.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Fangyu Li , Shenbao Yu , Feng Zeng , Fang Yang

Sequential recommendation aims to recommend the next item that matches a user's interest, based on the sequence of items he/she interacted with before. Scrutinizing previous studies, we can summarize a common learning-to-classify paradigm…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Zhengyi Yang , Jiancan Wu , Zhicai Wang , Xiang Wang , Yancheng Yuan , Xiangnan He

Modern recommender systems must adapt to dynamic, need-specific objectives for diverse recommendation scenarios, yet most traditional recommenders are optimized for a single static target and struggle to reconfigure behavior on demand.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yijun Pan , Weikang Qiu , Qiyao Ma , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Rex Ying

Generative models, particularly diffusion model, have emerged as powerful tools for sequential recommendation. However, accurately modeling user preferences remains challenging due to the noise perturbations inherent in the forward and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Feng Liu , Lixin Zou , Xiangyu Zhao , Min Tang , Liming Dong , Dan Luo , Xiangyang Luo , Chenliang Li

Sequential recommendation models aim to learn from users evolving preferences. However, current state-of-the-art models suffer from an inherent popularity bias. This study developed a novel framework, BiCoRec, that adaptively accommodates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mufhumudzi Muthivhi , Terence L van Zyl , Hairong Wang

Sequential recommendation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance using self-attention mechanism. It has since been found that moving beyond only using item ID and positional embeddings leads to a significant accuracy boost when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Linsey Pang , Amir Hossein Raffiee , Wei Liu , Keld Lundgaard

In sequential recommendation (SR), system exposure refers to items that are exposed to the user. Typically, only a few of the exposed items would be interacted with by the user. Although SR has achieved great success in predicting future…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ziqi Zhao , Zhaochun Ren , Jiyuan Yang , Zuming Yan , Zihan Wang , Liu Yang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Xin Xin

Overfitting has long been considered a common issue to large neural network models in sequential recommendation. In our study, an interesting phenomenon is observed that overfitting is temporary. When the model scale is increased, the trend…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammmadmahdi Maheri , Reza Abdollahzadeh , Bardia Mohammadi , Mina Rafiei , Jafar Habibi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Pioneering efforts have verified the effectiveness of the diffusion models in exploring the informative uncertainty for recommendation. Considering the difference between recommendation and image synthesis tasks, existing methods have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Haokai Ma , Ruobing Xie , Lei Meng , Xin Chen , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Zhanhui Kang

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 Recommendation characterizes the evolving patterns by modeling item sequences chronologically. The essential target of it is to capture the item transition correlations. The recent developments of transformer inspire the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Zhiwei Liu , Ziwei Fan , Yu Wang , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommenders are crucial to the success of online applications, \eg e-commerce, video streaming, and social media. While model architectures continue to improve, for every new application domain, we still have to train a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Junting Wang , Praneet Rathi , Hari Sundaram

Generative models, such as Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) and Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), have been successfully applied in sequential recommendation. These methods require sampling from probability distributions and adopt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Hanwen Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Zhen Huang , Pengpeng Zhao , Xiaofang Zhou

Sequential recommendation predicts each user's next item based on their historical interaction sequence. Recently, diffusion models have attracted significant attention in this area due to their strong ability to model user interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Li Li , Mingyue Cheng , Yuyang Ye , Zhiding Liu , Enhong Chen

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

Sequential recommender systems have become increasingly important in real-world applications that model user behavior sequences to predict their preferences. However, existing sequential recommendation methods predominantly rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Xiaolei Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jinpeng Wang , Sheng Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yuanpeng Qu , Hajime Nobuhara

Modern recommender systems trained on domain-specific data often struggle to generalize across multiple domains. Cross-domain sequential recommendation has emerged as a promising research direction to address this challenge; however,…

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