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Sequential recommendation is an important task to predict the next-item to access based on a sequence of interacted items. Most existing works learn user preference as the transition pattern from the previous item to the next one, ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yizhou Dang , Enneng Yang , Guibing Guo , Linying Jiang , Xingwei Wang , Xiaoxiao Xu , Qinghui Sun , Hong Liu

User interests are usually dynamic in the real world, which poses both theoretical and practical challenges for learning accurate preferences from rich behavior data. Among existing user behavior modeling solutions, attention networks are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Chao Chen , Haoyu Geng , Nianzu Yang , Junchi Yan , Daiyue Xue , Jianping Yu , Xiaokang Yang

Modern recommender systems are required to adapt to the change in user preferences and item popularity. Such a problem is known as the temporal dynamics problem, and it is one of the main challenges in recommender system modeling. Different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Nuttapong Chairatanakul , Hoang NT , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

User interests typically encompass both long-term preferences and short-term intentions, reflecting the dynamic nature of user behaviors across different timeframes. The uneven temporal distribution of user interactions highlights the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wei Zhou , Yue Shen , Junkai Ji , Yinglan Feng , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He , Liang Feng , Zexuan Zhu

Sequential recommendation systems are integral to discerning temporal user preferences. Yet, the task of learning from abbreviated user interaction sequences poses a notable challenge. Data augmentation has been identified as a potent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Juyong Jiang , Peiyan Zhang , Yingtao Luo , Chaozhuo Li , Jae Boum Kim , Kai Zhang , Senzhang Wang , Sunghun Kim , Philip S. Yu

Accounting for the fact that users have different sequential patterns, the main drawback of state-of-the-art recommendation strategies is that a fixed sequence length of user-item interactions is required as input to train the models. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Stefanos Antaris , Dimitrios Rafailidis

Traditional robust recommendation methods view atypical user-item interactions as noise and aim to reduce their impact with some kind of noise filtering technique, which often suffers from two challenges. First, in real world, atypical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Ziwen Du , Ning Yang , Zhonghua Yu , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns user preferences based on their historical interaction sequences and provides personalized suggestions. In real-world scenarios, most users can only interact with a handful of items, while the majority…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Yizhou Dang , Zhifu Wei , Minhan Huang , Lianbo Ma , Jianzhe Zhao , Guibing Guo , Xingwei Wang

User behavior sequences in modern recommendation systems exhibit significant length heterogeneity, ranging from sparse short-term interactions to rich long-term histories. While longer sequences provide more context, we observe that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhicheng Zhang , Zhaocheng Du , Jieming Zhu , Jiwei Tang , Fengyuan Lu , Wang Jiaheng , Song-Li Wu , Qianhui Zhu , Jingyu Li , Hai-Tao Zheng , Zhenhua Dong

Sequential recommendation aims to choose the most suitable items for a user at a specific timestamp given historical behaviors. Existing methods usually model the user behavior sequence based on the transition-based methods like Markov…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Fengzhu Wu , Sili Zhang , Hao Gu , Yuexing Hao , Yuguang

Recommender systems have achieved great success in modeling user's preferences on items and predicting the next item the user would consume. Recently, there have been many efforts to utilize time information of users' interactions with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Junsu Cho , Dongmin Hyun , SeongKu Kang , Hwanjo Yu

User response prediction is essential in industrial recommendation systems, such as online display advertising. Among all the features in recommendation models, user behaviors are among the most critical. Many works have revealed that a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Haolin Zhou , Junwei Pan , Xinyi Zhou , Xihua Chen , Jie Jiang , Xiaofeng Gao , Guihai Chen

Sequential recommendation systems model dynamic preferences of users based on their historical interactions with platforms. Despite recent progress, modeling short-term and long-term behavior of users in such systems is nontrivial and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Mehrnaz Amjadi , Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri , Theja Tulabandhula

Transformer-based sequential recommendation (SR) models excel at modeling long-range dependencies in user behavior via self-attention. However, updating them with continuously arriving behavior sequences incurs high computational costs or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Gyuseok Lee , Hyunsik Yoo , Junyoung Hwang , SeongKu Kang , Hwanjo Yu

Sequential recommendation (SR) is widely deployed in e-commerce platforms, streaming services, etc., revealing significant potential to enhance user experience. However, existing methods often overlook two critical factors: irregular user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Haoyan Fu , Zhida Qin , Shixiao Yang , Haoyao Zhang , Bin Lu , Shuang Li , Tianyu Huang , John C. S. Lui

This paper explores the application and effectiveness of Test-Time Training (TTT) layers in improving the performance of recommendation systems. We developed a model, TTT4Rec, utilizing TTT-Linear as the feature extraction layer. Our tests…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Tianyu Zhan , Zheqi Lv , Shengyu Zhang , Jiwei Li

Recommender systems filter out information that meets user interests. However, users may be tired of the recommendations that are too similar to the content they have been exposed to in a short historical period, which is the so-called user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Nian Li , Xin Ban , Cheng Ling , Chen Gao , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Yong Li , Qingmin Liao

Accurate prediction of the need for invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) in intensive care units (ICUs) patients is crucial for timely interventions and resource allocation. However, variability in patient populations, clinical practices,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xiaolei Lu , Shamim Nemati

Test-time adaptation is a promising research direction that allows the source model to adapt itself to changes in data distribution without any supervision. Yet, current methods are usually evaluated on benchmarks that are only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Damian Sójka , Sebastian Cygert , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Tomasz Trzciński

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has long been dominated by discriminative paradigms that optimize local decision boundaries within candidate-specific subspaces. However, these models often fail to capture the global joint distribution…

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