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Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

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,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Hyunsoo Kim , Jaewan Moon , Seongmin Park , Jongwuk Lee

Multimodal sequential recommendation (MSR) leverages diverse item modalities to improve recommendation accuracy, while achieving effective and adaptive fusion remains challenging. Existing MSR models often overlook synergistic information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Xinyi Zhang , Yutong Li , Peijie Sun , Letian Sha , Zhongxuan Han

Recommender systems help users find relevant items of interest, for example on e-commerce or media streaming sites. Most academic research is concerned with approaches that personalize the recommendations according to long-term user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Malte Ludewig , Dietmar Jannach

Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactions. Despite their success, we argue that these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xu Xie , Fei Sun , Zhaoyang Liu , Shiwen Wu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Bin Cui

Linear time-invariant state space models (SSM) are a classical model from engineering and statistics, that have recently been shown to be very promising in machine learning through the Structured State Space sequence model (S4). A core…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Albert Gu , Isys Johnson , Aman Timalsina , Atri Rudra , Christopher Ré

Sequential recommendation aims to provide users with personalized suggestions based on their historical interactions. When training sequential models, padding is a widely adopted technique for two main reasons: 1) The vast majority of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yizhou Dang , Yuting Liu , Enneng Yang , Guibing Guo , Linying Jiang , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

In this work, we introduce S4M, a new efficient speech separation framework based on neural state-space models (SSM). Motivated by linear time-invariant systems for sequence modeling, our SSM-based approach can efficiently model input…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Chen Chen , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Kai Li , Yuchen Hu , Pin-Jui Ku , Eng Siong Chng

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Modern online service providers such as online shopping platforms often provide both search and recommendation (S&R) services to meet different user needs. Rarely has there been any effective means of incorporating user behavior data from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zihua Si , Zhongxiang Sun , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Xiaoxue Zang , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Ji-Rong Wen

By generating new yet effective data, data augmentation has become a promising method to mitigate the data sparsity problem in sequential recommendation. Existing works focus on augmenting the original data but rarely explore the issue of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yizhou Dang , Jiahui Zhang , Yuting Liu , Enneng Yang , Yuliang Liang , Guibing Guo , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

The explosion of multimedia data in information-rich environments has intensified the challenges of personalized content discovery, positioning recommendation systems as an essential form of passive data management. Multimodal sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Yijie Li , Jianheng Tang , Yunhuai Liu , Edith C. H. Ngai

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Modeling user preferences (long-term history) and user dynamics (short-term history) is of greatest importance to build efficient sequential recommender systems. The challenge lies in the successful combination of the whole user's history…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Corentin Lonjarret , Roch Auburtin , Céline Robardet , Marc Plantevit

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of data mining and machine learning technology in practice. Academic research in the field is historically often based on the matrix completion problem formulation, where for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Massimo Quadrana , Paolo Cremonesi , Dietmar Jannach

Deep learning has brought great progress for the sequential recommendation (SR) tasks. With advanced network architectures, sequential recommender models can be stacked with many hidden layers, e.g., up to 100 layers on real-world…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiachun Wang , Fajie Yuan , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Min Yang , Yang Sun , Guoxiao Zhang

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

Sequential recommendation systems aim to predict users' next preferences based on their interaction histories, but existing approaches face critical limitations in efficiency and multi-scale pattern recognition. While Transformer-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Qianru Zhang , Liang Qu , Honggang Wen , Dong Huang , Siu-Ming Yiu , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin

The goal of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user's potential interested items based on her/his historical interaction sequences. Most existing sequential recommenders are developed based on ID features, which, despite their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinpeng Wang , Ziyun Zeng , Yunxiao Wang , Yuting Wang , Xingyu Lu , Tianxiang Li , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shu-Tao Xia

Sequential recommendation models are crucial for next-item recommendations in online platforms, capturing complex patterns in user interactions. However, many focus on a single behavior, overlooking valuable implicit interactions like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Shereen Elsayed , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme