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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…

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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…

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Generative recommendation is emerging as a powerful paradigm that directly generates item predictions, moving beyond traditional matching-based approaches. However, current methods face two key challenges: token-item misalignment, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Chang Liu , Yimeng Bai , Xiaoyan Zhao , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Wenge Rong

Sequential Recommendation (SR) models infer user preferences from interaction histories. While transferable Multi-modal SR models outperform traditional ID-based approaches, existing methods struggle with slow fine-tuning convergence due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Hao Fan , Qingyang Liu , Hongjiu Liu , Yanrong Hu , Kai Fang

Sequential Recommendation (SR) plays a pivotal role in recommender systems by tailoring recommendations to user preferences based on their non-stationary historical interactions. Achieving high-quality performance in SR requires attention…

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Large language models have recently shown promise for multimodal recommendation, particularly with text and image inputs. Yet real-world recommendation signals extend far beyond these modalities. To reflect this, we formalize recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Zijie Lei , Tao Feng , Zhigang Hua , Yan Xie , Guanyu Lin , Shuang Yang , Ge Liu , Jiaxuan You

The integration of multimodal information into sequential recommender systems has attracted significant attention in recent research. In the initial stages of multimodal sequential recommendation models, the mainstream paradigm was…

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Micro-video recommendation aims to capture user preferences from the collaborative and context information of the interacted micro-videos, thereby predicting the appropriate videos. This target is often hindered by the inherent noise within…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinxin Dong , Haokai Ma , Yuze Zheng , Yongfu Zha , Yonghui Yang , Xiaodong Wang

In the era of information explosion, Recommender Systems (RS) are essential for alleviating information overload and providing personalized user experiences. Recent advances in diffusion-based generative recommenders have shown promise in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chengyi Liu , Xiao Chen , Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Recommender systems have long been built upon the modeling of interactions between users and items, while recent studies have sought to broaden this paradigm by generalizing to new users and items, incorporating diverse information sources,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chanyoung Chung , Kyeongryul Lee , Sunbin Park , Joyce Jiyoung Whang

Generative models, particularly diffusion model, have emerged as powerful tools for sequential recommendation. However, accurately modeling user preferences remains challenging due to the noise perturbations inherent in the forward and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Feng Liu , Lixin Zou , Xiangyu Zhao , Min Tang , Liming Dong , Dan Luo , Xiangyang Luo , Chenliang Li

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

Existing sequential recommendation models, even advanced diffusion-based approaches, often struggle to capture the rich semantic intent underlying user behavior, especially for new users or long-tail items. This limitation stems from their…

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This paper presents an open-source toolbox, MMRec for multimodal recommendation. MMRec simplifies and canonicalizes the process of implementing and comparing multimodal recommendation models. The objective of MMRec is to provide a unified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Xin Zhou

Modern recommender systems face critical challenges in handling information overload while addressing the inherent limitations of multimodal representation learning. Existing methods suffer from three fundamental limitations: (1) restricted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Hewei Wang , Shuo Yang , Zitong Wan , Haibo Hu

With the development of multimedia systems, multimodal recommendations are playing an essential role, as they can leverage rich contexts beyond interactions. Existing methods mainly regard multimodal information as an auxiliary, using them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Yifan Liu , Kangning Zhang , Xiangyuan Ren , Yanhua Huang , Jiarui Jin , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Ruiwen Xu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Multimodal data has significantly advanced recommendation systems by integrating diverse information sources to model user preferences and item characteristics. However, these systems often struggle with redundant and irrelevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hui Wang , Jinghui Qin , Wushao Wen , Qingling Li , Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang

We propose HyMoERec, a novel sequential recommendation framework that addresses the limitations of uniform Position-wise Feed-Forward Networks in existing models. Current approaches treat all user interactions and items equally, overlooking…

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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

Recent advancements in large language model-based recommendation systems often represent items as text or semantic IDs and generate recommendations in an auto-regressive manner. However, due to the left-to-right greedy decoding strategy and…

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