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The fast development of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers growing opportunities to further improve sequential recommendation systems. Yet for some practitioners, integrating LLMs to their existing base recommendation systems raises…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Nanshan Jia , Chenfei Yuan , Yuhang Wu , Zeyu Zheng

Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have shown superior performance over conventional methods. However, they show limited scalability on large-scale industrial datasets since most models learn one embedding per item. This leads to a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Walid Shalaby , Sejoon Oh , Amir Afsharinejad , Srijan Kumar , Xiquan Cui

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been widely used as recommender systems, owing to their reasoning capability and effectiveness in handling cold-start items. A common approach prompts an LLM with a target user's purchase history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sunwoo Kim , Geon Lee , Kyungho Kim , Jaemin Yoo , Kijung Shin

The burgeoning presence of Large Language Models (LLM) is propelling the development of personalized recommender systems. Most existing LLM-based methods fail to sufficiently explore the multi-view graph structure correlations inherent in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Xu Guo , Tong Zhang , Yuanzhi Wang , Chenxu Wang , Fuyun Wang , Xudong Wang , Xiaoya Zhang , Xin Liu , Zhen Cui

Sequential recommendation problems have received increasing attention in research during the past few years, leading to the inception of a large variety of algorithmic approaches. In this work, we explore how large language models (LLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jesse Harte , Wouter Zorgdrager , Panos Louridas , Asterios Katsifodimos , Dietmar Jannach , Marios Fragkoulis

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) predict the next items that users may prefer based on user historical interaction sequences. Inspired by the rise of large language models (LLMs) in various AI applications, there is a surge of work on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-17 CanYi Liu , Wei Li , Youchen , Zhang , Hui Li , Rongrong Ji

Modern industrial recommendation systems improve recommendation performance by integrating multimodal representations from pre-trained models into ID-based Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction frameworks. However, existing approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Alin Fan , Hanqing Li , Sihan Lu , Jingsong Yuan , Jiandong Zhang

Recent years have witnessed a surge in the number of large language models (LLMs), yet efficiently managing and utilizing these vast resources remains a significant challenge. In this work, we explore how to learn compact representations of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jianhao Chen , Chenxu Wang , Gengrui Zhang , Peng Ye , Lei Bai , Wei Hu , Yuzhong Qu , Shuyue Hu

Multimodal recommender systems work by augmenting the representation of the products in the catalogue through multimodal features extracted from images, textual descriptions, or audio tracks characterising such products. Nevertheless, in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Daniele Malitesta , Emanuele Rossi , Claudio Pomo , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Tommaso Di Noia

With hundreds of thousands of language models available on Huggingface today, efficiently evaluating and utilizing these models across various downstream, tasks has become increasingly critical. Many existing methods repeatedly learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Richard Zhuang , Tianhao Wu , Zhaojin Wen , Andrew Li , Jiantao Jiao , Kannan Ramchandran

Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) models learn low-dimensional item ID embeddings from user-item interactions, often overlooking textual information such as item titles or descriptions. Recent advances in Large Language Models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Yu Cui , Feng Liu , Zhaoxiang Wang , Changwang Zhang , Jun Wang , Can Wang , Jiawei Chen

Most NN-RSs focus on accuracy by building representations from the direct user-item interactions (e.g., user-item rating matrix), while ignoring the underlying relatedness between users and items (e.g., users who rate the same ratings for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yuanbo Xu , En Wang , Yongjian Yang , Yi Chang

Recently, multimodal recommendations (MMR) have gained increasing attention for alleviating the data sparsity problem of traditional recommender systems by incorporating modality-based representations. Although MMR exhibits notable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Weixin Chen , Li Chen , Yongxin Ni , Yuhan Zhao

Product embedding serves as a cornerstone for a wide range of applications in eCommerce. The product embedding learned from multiple modalities shows significant improvement over that from a single modality, since different modalities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Baohao Liao , Michael Kozielski , Sanjika Hewavitharana , Jiangbo Yuan , Shahram Khadivi , Tomer Lancewicki

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely adopted to enrich the semantic representation of textual item information in recommender systems. However, existing linear autoencoders (LAEs) that incorporate textual information rely on sparse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jaewan Moon , Seongmin Park , Jongwuk Lee

In recommender systems, models mostly use a combination of embedding layers and multilayer feedforward neural networks. The high-dimensional sparse original features are downscaled in the embedding layer and then fed into the fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Mohan Hasama , Jing Li

In this paper, a level-wise mixture model (LMM) is developed by embedding visual hierarchy with deep networks to support large-scale visual recognition (i.e., recognizing thousands or even tens of thousands of object classes), and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Tianyi Zhao , Baopeng Zhang , Wei Zhang , Ning Zhou , Jun Yu , Jianping Fan

In this paper, we propose a novel ranking framework for collaborative filtering with the overall aim of learning user preferences over items by minimizing a pairwise ranking loss. We show the minimization problem involves dependent random…

Multimedia content is of predominance in the modern Web era. Investigating how users interact with multimodal items is a continuing concern within the rapid development of recommender systems. The majority of previous work focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jinghao Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Shuhui Wang , Liang Wang

Industry-scale recommendation systems have become a cornerstone of the e-commerce shopping experience. For Etsy, an online marketplace with over 50 million handmade and vintage items, users come to rely on personalized recommendations to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Xiaoting Zhao , Raphael Louca , Diane Hu , Liangjie Hong