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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

Recommender systems have been widely used in various large-scale user-oriented platforms for many years. However, compared to the rapid developments in the AI community, recommendation systems have not achieved a breakthrough in recent…

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

Recommendation systems are highly interested in technology companies nowadays. The businesses are constantly growing users and products, causing the number of users and items to continuously increase over time, to very large numbers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Vu Hong Quan , Le Hoang Ngan , Le Minh Duc , Nguyen Tran Ngoc Linh , Hoang Quynh-Le

Sequential recommendation plays an increasingly important role in many e-commerce services such as display advertisement and online shopping. With the rapid development of these services in the last two decades, users have accumulated a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yongji Wu , Lu Yin , Defu Lian , Mingyang Yin , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

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

Characterizing users' interests accurately plays a significant role in an effective recommender system. The sequential recommender system can learn powerful hidden representations of users from successive user-item interactions and dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Lingxiao Zhang , Jiangpeng Yan , Yujiu Yang , Xiu Li

Recommendation system plays an important role in online web applications. Sequential recommender further models user short-term preference through exploiting information from latest user-item interaction history. Most of the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ye Tao , Can Wang , Lina Yao , Weimin Li , Yonghong Yu

User-item interaction histories are pivotal for sequential recommendation systems but often include noise, such as unintended clicks or actions that fail to reflect genuine user preferences. To address this, we propose Learned Item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haidong Xin , Zhenghao Liu , Sen Mei , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Shuo Wang , Zulong Chen , Yu Gu , Ge Yu , Chenyan Xiong

Rating elicitation is a success element for recommender systems to perform well at cold-starting, in which the systems need to recommend items to a newly arrived user with no prior knowledge about the user's preference. Existing elicitation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hieu Trung Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Khoa Doan , Viet Anh Nguyen

Item recommendation task predicts a personalized ranking over a set of items for each individual user. One paradigm is the rating-based methods that concentrate on explicit feedbacks and hence face the difficulties in collecting them.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Guang-Neng Hu , Xin-Yu Dai

Recommender systems deployed in real-world applications can have inherent exposure bias, which leads to the biased logged data plaguing the researchers. A fundamental way to address this thorny problem is to collect users' interactions on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Chongming Gao , Shijun Li , Yuan Zhang , Jiawei Chen , Biao Li , Wenqiang Lei , Peng Jiang , Xiangnan He

Recommender systems face a critical challenge in the item cold-start problem, which limits content diversity and exacerbates popularity bias by struggling to recommend new items. While existing solutions often rely on auxiliary data, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dong Wang , Junyi Jiao , Arnab Bhadury , Yaping Zhang , Mingyan Gao , Onkar Dalal

Item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) has been widely used in industrial applications such as recommender system and online advertising. It models users' preference on target items by the items they have interacted with. Recent models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yinjiang Cai , Zeyu Cui , Shu Wu , Zhen Lei , Xibo Ma

Sequential recommendation plays a critical role in modern online platforms such as e-commerce, advertising, and content streaming, where accurately predicting users' next interactions is essential for personalization. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haofeng Huang , Ling Gai

Sequential recommendation involves automatically recommending the next item to users based on their historical item sequence. While most prior research employs RNN or transformer methods to glean information from the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Xiaofan Zhou

Recommendation plays a key role in e-commerce, enhancing user experience and boosting commercial success. Existing works mainly focus on recommending a set of items, but online e-commerce platforms have recently begun to pay attention to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qihao Wang , Pritom Saha Akash , Varvara Kollia , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Biwei Jiang , Vadim Von Brzeski

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jin Chai , Xiaoxiao Ma , Jian Yang , Jia Wu

Representation learning in sequential recommendation is critical for accurately modeling user interaction patterns and improving recommendation precision. However, existing approaches predominantly emphasize item-to-item transitions, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yang Liu , Yitong Wang , Chenyue Feng