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Lifelong user behavior sequences are crucial for capturing user interests and predicting user responses in modern recommendation systems. A two-stage paradigm is typically adopted to handle these long sequences: a subset of relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ningya Feng , Junwei Pan , Jialong Wu , Baixu Chen , Ximei Wang , Qian Li , Xian Hu , Jie Jiang , Mingsheng Long

Multi-modal sequential recommendation systems leverage auxiliary signals (e.g., text, images) to alleviate data sparsity in user-item interactions. While recent methods exploit large language models to encode modalities into discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Kaiyuan Li , Rui Xiang , Yong Bai , Yongxiang Tang , Yanhua Cheng , Xialong Liu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Session-based recommendation has gained increasing attention in recent years, with its aim to offer tailored suggestions based on users' historical behaviors within sessions. To advance this field, a variety of methods have been developed,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Juanhui Li , Haoyu Han , Zhikai Chen , Harry Shomer , Wei Jin , Amin Javari , Jiliang Tang

Sequential recommendation (SR) plays an important role in personalized recommender systems because it captures dynamic and diverse preferences from users' real-time increasing behaviors. Unlike the standard autoregressive training strategy,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Hengyu Zhang , Enming Yuan , Wei Guo , Zhicheng He , Jiarui Qin , Huifeng Guo , Bo Chen , Xiu Li , Ruiming Tang

In the domain of computer vision, Parameter-Efficient Tuning (PET) is increasingly replacing the traditional paradigm of pre-training followed by full fine-tuning. PET is particularly favored for its effectiveness in large foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Jiaqi Huang , Zunnan Xu , Ting Liu , Yong Liu , Haonan Han , Kehong Yuan , Xiu Li

Next Set Recommendation (NSRec), encompassing related tasks such as next basket recommendation and temporal sets prediction, stands as a trending research topic. Although numerous attempts have been made on this topic, there are certain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yuli Liu , Min Liu , Christian Walder , Lexing Xie

The core of the general recommender systems lies in learning high-quality embedding representations of users and items to investigate their positional relations in the feature space. Unfortunately, data sparsity caused by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang

Sequential dense retrieval models utilize advanced sequence learning techniques to compute item and user representations, which are then used to rank relevant items for a user through inner product computation between the user and all item…

Generative Recommendation (GenRec) models reformulate recommendation as a sequence generation task, representing items as discrete Semantic IDs used symmetrically as both inputs and prediction targets. We identify a critical dual-stage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Bin Huang , Xin Wang , Junwei Pan , Yongqi Zhou , Yifeng Zhou , Zhixiang Feng , Shudong Huang , Haijie Gu , Wenwu Zhu

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

There has been a growing interest in benchmarking sequential recommendation models and reproducing/improving existing models. For example, Rendle et al. improved matrix factorization models by tuning their parameters and hyperparameters.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Fangyu Li , Shenbao Yu , Feng Zeng , Fang Yang

Generative recommendation systems have gained increasing attention as an innovative approach that directly generates item identifiers for recommendation tasks. Despite their potential, a major challenge is the effective construction of item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Cheng Ling , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Wayne Xin Zhao

Recommender systems aim to provide personalized item recommendations by capturing user behaviors derived from their interaction history. Considering that user interactions naturally occur sequentially based on users' intents in mind, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijin Choi , Chiehyeon Lim

Recently, sequential recommendation has emerged as a widely studied topic. Existing researches mainly design effective neural architectures to model user behavior sequences based on item IDs. However, this kind of approach highly relies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Shanlei Mu , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding

Federated Recommendation can mitigate the systematical privacy risks of traditional recommendation since it allows the model training and online inferring without centralized user data collection. Most existing works assume that all user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Jiangcheng Qin , Baisong Liu , Xueyuan Zhang , Jiangbo Qian

Recommendation models that utilize unique identities (IDs) to represent distinct users and items have been state-of-the-art (SOTA) and dominated the recommender systems (RS) literature for over a decade. Meanwhile, the pre-trained modality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Zheng Yuan , Fajie Yuan , Yu Song , Youhua Li , Junchen Fu , Fei Yang , Yunzhu Pan , Yongxin Ni

Recommendation system plays an important role in online web applications. Sequential recommender further models user short-term preference through exploiting information from latest user-item interaction history. Most of the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ye Tao , Can Wang , Lina Yao , Weimin Li , Yonghong Yu

Session-based recommendation techniques aim to capture dynamic user behavior by analyzing past interactions. However, existing methods heavily rely on historical item ID sequences to extract user preferences, leading to challenges such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Zhipeng Zhang , Piao Tong , Yingwei Ma , Qiao Liu , Xujiang Liu , Xu Luo

Sequential recommendation systems aim to provide personalized recommendations by analyzing dynamic preferences and dependencies within user behavior sequences. Recently, Transformer models can effectively capture user preferences. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Shun Zhang , Runsen Zhang , Zhirong Yang

Federated recommendation is a new Internet service architecture that aims to provide privacy-preserving recommendation services in federated settings. Existing solutions are used to combine distributed recommendation algorithms and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Peng Yan , Zijian Zhang , Chengqi Zhang , Bo Yang