English
Related papers

Related papers: Align-for-Fusion: Harmonizing Triple Preferences v…

200 papers

Generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise in sequential recommendation tasks. However, they face challenges, including posterior collapse and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sharare Zolghadr , Ole Winther , Paul Jeha

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to mine and transfer users' sequential preferences across different domains to alleviate the long-standing cold-start issue. Traditional CDSR models capture collaborative information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Tingjia Shen , Hao Wang , Jiaqing Zhang , Sirui Zhao , Liangyue Li , Zulong Chen , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Inspired by advances in LLMs, reasoning-enhanced sequential recommendation performs multi-step deliberation before making final predictions, unlocking greater potential for capturing user preferences. However, current methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yifan Shao , Peilin Zhou , Shoujin Wang , Weizhi Zhang , Xu Cai , Sunghun Kim

Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CSR) which leverages user sequence data from multiple domains has received extensive attention in recent years. However, the existing CSR methods require sharing origin user data across domains, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hongyu Zhang , Dongyi Zheng , Xu Yang , Jiyuan Feng , Qing Liao

Users prefer diverse recommendations over homogeneous ones. However, most previous work on Sequential Recommenders does not consider diversity, and strives for maximum accuracy, resulting in homogeneous recommendations. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Anton Steenvoorden , Emanuele Di Gloria , Wanyu Chen , Pengjie Ren , Maarten de Rijke

Side-information Integrated Sequential Recommendation (SISR) benefits from auxiliary item information to infer hidden user preferences, which is particularly effective for sparse interactions and cold-start scenarios. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Hye-young Kim , Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Ilwoong Baek , Jongwuk Lee

The modern recommender systems are facing an increasing challenge of modelling and predicting the dynamic and context-rich user preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering and content-based methods often struggle to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yitong Li , Raoul Grasman

With the rapid development of recommender systems, there is increasing side information that can be employed to improve the recommendation performance. Specially, we focus on the utilization of the associated \emph{textual data} of items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Lanling Xu , Zhen Tian , Bingqian Li , Junjie Zhang , Jinpeng Wang , Mingchen Cai , Wayne Xin Zhao

Sequential decision-making is desired to align with human intents and exhibit versatility across various tasks. Previous methods formulate it as a conditional generation process, utilizing return-conditioned diffusion models to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xudong Yu , Chenjia Bai , Haoran He , Changhong Wang , Xuelong Li

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to align heterogeneous user behavior sequences collected from different domains. While cross-attention is widely used to enhance alignment and improve recommendation performance, its…

Sequential recommendations have made great strides in accurately predicting the future behavior of users. However, seeking accuracy alone may bring side effects such as unfair and overspecialized recommendation results. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Jiayi Chen , Wen Wu , Liye Shi , Yu Ji , Wenxin Hu , Wei Zheng , Liang He

Sequential recommendation (SR) models often capture user preferences based on the historically interacted item IDs, which usually obtain sub-optimal performance when the interaction history is limited. Content-based sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Donglin Zhou , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Cross-domain sequential recommendation is an important development direction of recommender systems. It combines the characteristics of sequential recommender systems and cross-domain recommender systems, which can capture the dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhaohao Lin , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to address the data sparsity problems that exist in traditional sequential recommendation (SR) systems. The existing approaches aim to design a specific cross-domain unit that can transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wujiang Xu , Xuying Ning , Wenfang Lin , Mingming Ha , Qiongxu Ma , Qianqiao Liang , Xuewen Tao , Linxun Chen , Bing Han , Minnan Luo

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been used recently to align diffusion models with downstream objectives such as aesthetic quality and text-image consistency by fine-tuning them to maximize a single reward function under a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Min Cheng , Fatemeh Doudi , Dileep Kalathil , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Panganamala R. Kumar

Traditional sequential recommendation methods assume that users' sequence data is clean enough to learn accurate sequence representations to reflect user preferences. In practice, users' sequences inevitably contain noise (e.g., accidental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Chi Zhang , Qilong Han , Rui Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Tang , Hongtao Song

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

In the real world, users always have multiple interests while surfing different services to enrich their daily lives, e.g., watching hot short videos/live streamings. To describe user interests precisely for a better user experience, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yu Liu , Hanbin Jiang , Lei Zhu , Yu Zhang , Yuqi Mao , Jiangxia Cao , Shuchao Pang

This paper presents LightFusionRec, a novel lightweight cross-domain recommendation system that integrates DistilBERT for textual feature extraction and FastText for genre embedding. Important issues in recommendation systems, such as data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Vansh Kharidia , Dhruvi Paprunia , Prashasti Kanikar

Learning accurate cross-domain preference mappings in the absence of overlapped users/items has presented a persistent challenge in Non-overlapping Cross-domain Recommendation (NOCDR). Despite the efforts made in previous studies to address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Lina Yao