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Most work in graph-based recommender systems considers a {\em static} setting where all information about test nodes (i.e., users and items) is available upfront at training time. However, this static setting makes little sense for many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Mengyue Hang , Tobias Schnabel , Longqi Yang , Jennifer Neville

Recent sequential recommendation models rely increasingly on consecutive short-term user-item interaction sequences to model user interests. These approaches have, however, raised concerns about both short- and long-term interests. (1) {\it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Lina Yao , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu

Actively inferring user preferences, for example by asking good questions, is important for any human-facing decision-making system. Active inference allows such systems to adapt and personalize themselves to nuanced individual preferences.…

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The main task of personalized recommendation is capturing users' interests based on their historical behaviors. Most of recent advances in recommender systems mainly focus on modeling users' preferences accurately using deep learning based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Shihao Li , Dekun Yang , Bufeng Zhang

Session identification is a common strategy used to develop metrics for web analytics and behavioral analyses of user-facing systems. Past work has argued that session identification strategies based on an inactivity threshold is inherently…

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Deep Interest Network (DIN) is a state-of-the-art model which uses attention mechanism to capture user interests from historical behaviors. User interests intuitively follow a hierarchical pattern such that users generally show interests…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Weinan Xu , Hengxu He , Minshi Tan , Yunming Li , Jun Lang , Dongbai Guo

Online action detection, which aims to identify an ongoing action from a streaming video, is an important subject in real-world applications. For this task, previous methods use recurrent neural networks for modeling temporal relations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Sumin Lee , Hyunjun Eun , Jinyoung Moon , Seokeon Choi , Yoonhyung Kim , Chanho Jung , Changick Kim

In domains where users tend to develop long-term preferences that do not change too frequently, the stability of recommendations is an important factor of the perceived quality of a recommender system. In such cases, unstable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Oluwafemi Olaleke , Ivan Oseledets , Evgeny Frolov

The lifelong user behavior sequence provides abundant information of user preference and gains impressive improvement in the recommendation task, however increases computational consumption significantly. To meet the severe latency…

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In this paper, we propose a two-stage ranking approach for recommending linear TV programs. The proposed approach first leverages user viewing patterns regarding time and TV channels to identify potential candidates for recommendation and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Ting-Wei Lin , Jing-Kai Lou , Ming-Feng Tsai , Chuan-Ju Wang

Semantically connecting users and items is a fundamental problem for the matching stage of an industrial recommender system. Recent advances in this topic are based on multi-channel retrieval to efficiently measure users' interest on items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yujie Lu , Ping Nie , Shengyu Zhang , Ming Zhao , Ruobing Xie , William Yang Wang , Yi Ren

Traditional recommendation systems are subject to a strong feedback loop by learning from and reinforcing past user-item interactions, which in turn limits the discovery of novel user interests. To address this, we introduce a hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Jianling Wang , Haokai Lu , Yifan Liu , He Ma , Yueqi Wang , Yang Gu , Shuzhou Zhang , Ningren Han , Shuchao Bi , Lexi Baugher , Ed Chi , Minmin Chen

Sequential recommendation aims at understanding user preference by capturing successive behavior correlations, which are usually represented as the item purchasing sequences based on their past interactions. Existing efforts generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Hongjun Wu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Interest modeling in recommender system has been a constant topic for improving user experience, and typical interest modeling tasks (e.g. multi-interest, long-tail interest and long-term interest) have been investigated in many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Jing Yan , Liu Jiang , Jianfei Cui , Zhichen Zhao , Xingyan Bin , Feng Zhang , Zuotao Liu

Caching algorithms try to predict content popularity, and place the content closer to the users. Additionally, nowadays requests are increasingly driven by recommendation systems (RS). These important trends, point to the following:…

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Sequential recommendation, a critical task in recommendation systems, predicts the next user action based on the understanding of the user's historical behaviors. Conventional studies mainly focus on cross-behavior modeling with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zhen Gong , Zhifang Fan , Hui Lu , Qiwei Chen , Chenbin Zhang , Lin Guan , Yuchao Zheng , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

In real-world streaming recommender systems, user preferences evolve dynamically over time. Existing bandit-based methods treat time merely as a timestamp, neglecting its explicit relationship with user preferences and leading to suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Chenglei Shen , Yi Zhan , Weijie Yu , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

A session-based news recommender system recommends the next news to a user by modeling the potential interests embedded in a sequence of news read/clicked by her/him in a session. Generally, a user's interests are diverse, namely there are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Rongyao Wang , Wenpeng Lu

Sequential recommendation models user preferences to predict the next target item. Most existing work is passive, where the system responds only when users open the application, missing chances after closure. We investigate active…

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