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In this paper, we focus on the often-overlooked issue of embedding collapse in existing diffusion-based sequential recommendation models and propose ADRec, an innovative framework designed to mitigate this problem. Diverging from previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jialei Chen , Yuanbo Xu , Yiheng Jiang

Mainstream solutions to Sequential Recommendation (SR) represent items with fixed vectors. These vectors have limited capability in capturing items' latent aspects and users' diverse preferences. As a new generative paradigm, Diffusion…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zihao Li , Aixin Sun , Chenliang Li

Large foundational models, through upstream pre-training and downstream fine-tuning, have achieved immense success in the broad AI community due to improved model performance and significant reductions in repetitive engineering. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Jiaqi Zhang , Yu Cheng , Yongxin Ni , Yunzhu Pan , Zheng Yuan , Junchen Fu , Youhua Li , Jie Wang , Fajie Yuan

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

Sequential recommendations have drawn significant attention in modeling the user's historical behaviors to predict the next item. With the booming development of multimodal data (e.g., image, text) on internet platforms, sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Changhong Li , Zhiqiang Guo

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

A large catalogue size is one of the central challenges in training recommendation models: a large number of items makes them memory and computationally inefficient to compute scores for all items during training, forcing these models to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Aleksandr Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Although prevailing supervised and self-supervised learning augmented sequential recommendation (SeRec) models have achieved improved performance with powerful neural network architectures, we argue that they still suffer from two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xinping Zhao , Baotian Hu , Yan Zhong , Shouzheng Huang , Zihao Zheng , Meng Wang , Haofen Wang , Min Zhang

Harnessing Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommendation is rapidly emerging, which relies on two fundamental steps to bridge the recommendation item space and the language space: 1) item indexing utilizes identifiers to represent items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Xinyu Lin , Wenjie Wang , Yongqi Li , Fuli Feng , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

With the increasing development of e-commerce and online services, personalized recommendation systems have become crucial for enhancing user satisfaction and driving business revenue. Traditional sequential recommendation methods that rely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Kunzhe Song , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Kai Zheng , Yaming Yang

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

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) have become the key technology in capturing user's dynamic interests and generating high-quality recommendations. Current state-of-the-art sequential recommender models are typically based on a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Yang Sun , Fajie Yuan , Min Yang , Guoao Wei , Zhou Zhao , Duo Liu

Learning large-scale pre-trained models on broad-ranging data and then transfer to a wide range of target tasks has become the de facto paradigm in many machine learning (ML) communities. Such big models are not only strong performers in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jie Wang , Fajie Yuan , Mingyue Cheng , Joemon M. Jose , Chenyun Yu , Beibei Kong , Zhijin Wang , Bo Hu , Zang Li

Conventional Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) typically assign unique hash IDs (HID) to construct item embeddings, which mainly capture collaborative signals from historical user-item interactions. However, such embeddings are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ziwei Liu , Yejing Wang , Wanyu Wang , Wang Zejian , Qidong Liu , Zijian Zhang , Chong Chen , Wei Huang , Xiangyu Zhao

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Bo-Chian Chen , Manel Slokom

Modeling the complex interactions between users and items as well as amongst items themselves is at the core of designing successful recommender systems. One classical setting is predicting users' personalized sequential behavior (or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Ruining He , Wang-Cheng Kang , Julian McAuley

Recent advancements in diffusion models have shown promising results in sequential recommendation (SR). Existing approaches predominantly rely on implicit conditional diffusion models, which compress user behaviors into a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Hongtao Huang , Chengkai Huang , Tong Yu , Xiaojun Chang , Wen Hu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Sequential Recommendation is a popular recommendation task that uses the order of user-item interaction to model evolving users' interests and sequential patterns in their behaviour. Current state-of-the-art Transformer-based models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-based models such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Aleksandr V. Petrov , Craig Macdonald

This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu