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Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over a chronological sequence of interacted items. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods introduce new machinery, such as semantic IDs,…

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Modern search systems play a crucial role in facilitating information acquisition. Traditional search engines typically rely on a cascaded architecture, where results are retrieved through recall, pre-ranking, and ranking stages. The…

Search-based recommendation is one of the most critical application scenarios in e-commerce platforms. Users' complex search contexts--such as spatiotemporal factors, historical interactions, and current query's information--constitute an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Zhiding Liu , Ben Chen , Mingyue Cheng , Enhong Chen , Li Li , Chenyi Lei , Wenwu Ou , Han Li , Kun Gai

In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL methods rely on explicit item IDs for developing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yupeng Hou , Shanlei Mu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Ji-Rong Wen

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Recommender systems (RSs) now play a very important role in the online lives of people as they serve as personalized filters for users to find relevant items from an array of options. Owing to their effectiveness, RSs have been widely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Min Gao , Junwei Zhang , Junliang Yu , Jundong Li , Junhao Wen , Qingyu Xiong

Generative recommender systems have recently emerged as a promising paradigm by formulating next-item prediction as an auto-regressive semantic IDs generation, such as OneRec series works. However, with the next-item-agnostic prediction…

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Generative recommendation is emerging as a transformative paradigm by directly generating recommended items, rather than relying on matching. Building such a system typically involves two key components: (1) optimizing the tokenizer to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yimeng Bai , Chang Liu , Yang Zhang , Dingxian Wang , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Wenge Rong , Fuli Feng

Sequential Recommendation is a widely studied paradigm for learning users' dynamic interests from historical interactions for predicting the next potential item. Although lots of research work has achieved remarkable progress, they are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yongqiang Han , Likang Wu , Hao Wang , Guifeng Wang , Mengdi Zhang , Zhi Li , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to alleviate the data sparsity by transferring knowledge across domains. Disentangled representation learning provides an effective solution to model complex user preferences by separating intra-domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Yuhan Wang , Qing Xie , Zhifeng Bao , Mengzi Tang , Lin Li , Yongjian Liu

Semantic IDs (SIDs) define the generation space of generative recommendation and directly determine its personalization ceiling. However, existing tokenizers are trained independently with retrieval objectives, leaving personalization…

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Addressing the complexity of comprehensive information retrieval, this study introduces an innovative, iterative retrieval-augmented generation system. Our approach uniquely integrates a vector-space driven re-ranking mechanism with…

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In a multi-stage recommendation system, reranking plays a crucial role in modeling intra-list correlations among items. A key challenge lies in exploring optimal sequences within the combinatorial space of permutations. Recent research…

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Sequential Recommendation System~(SRS) has become pivotal in modern society, which predicts subsequent actions based on the user's historical behavior. However, traditional collaborative filtering-based sequential recommendation models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Tianjie Dai , Xu Chen , Yunmeng Shu , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Jiangchao Yao , Bo Zheng

Generative models are increasingly being explored in click-through rate (CTR) prediction field to overcome the limitations of the conventional discriminative paradigm, which rely on a simple binary classification objective. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Moyu Zhang , Yujun Jin , Yun Chen , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Recently, generative retrieval-based recommendation systems have emerged as a promising paradigm. However, most modern recommender systems adopt a retrieve-and-rank strategy, where the generative model functions only as a selector during…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Jiaxin Deng , Shiyao Wang , Kuo Cai , Lejian Ren , Qigen Hu , Weifeng Ding , Qiang Luo , Guorui Zhou

Traditional recommender systems (RS) typically use user-item rating histories as their main data source. However, deep generative models now have the capability to model and sample from complex data distributions, including user-item…

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to predict users' next interaction based on their historical behaviors, while still facing the challenge of data sparsity. With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyao Huang , Qidong Liu , Wenxuan Yang , Moranxin Wang , Yuqi Sun , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) methods heavily rely on explicit item IDs to capture user preferences over time. This reliance introduces critical limitations in cold-start scenarios and domain transfer tasks, where unseen items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Wuhan Chen , Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Xin Xia , Feng Jiang , Junhao Wen

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation (MTCDR), which aims to enhance recommendation performance across multiple domains simultaneously. Existing MTCDR methods primarily rely on…

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