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Sequential recommendation refers to recommending the next item of interest for a specific user based on his/her historical behavior sequence up to a certain time. While previous research has extensively examined Markov chain-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-06 DongYu Du , Yue Chan

Attention is typically used to select informative sub-phrases that are used for prediction. This paper investigates the novel use of attention as a form of feature augmentation, i.e, casted attention. We propose Multi-Cast Attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Yi Tay , Luu Anh Tuan , Siu Cheung Hui

The Transformer model architecture has become one of the most widely used in deep learning and the attention mechanism is at its core. The standard attention formulation uses a softmax operation applied to a scaled dot product between query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hariprasath Govindarajan , Per Sidén , Jacob Roll , Fredrik Lindsten

Diffusion models (DMs) have emerged as promising approaches for sequential recommendation due to their strong ability to model data distributions and generate high-quality items. Existing work typically adds noise to the next item and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Wenyu Mao , Shuchang Liu , Haoyang Liu , Haozhe Liu , Xiang Li , Lantao Hu

Although sophisticated sequence modeling paradigms have achieved remarkable success in recommender systems, the information capacity of hand-crafted sequential features constrains the performance upper bound. To better enhance user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xinchun Li , Ning Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Fei Teng , Wenlin Zhao , Huizhi Yang , Heng Shi , Linlan Chen , Yixin Wu , Zhen Wang , Daiye Hou , Fei Qin , Lele Yu , Yaocheng Tan

Generating high-quality videos from complex temporal descriptions that contain multiple sequential actions is a key unsolved problem. Existing methods are constrained by an inherent trade-off: using multiple short prompts fed sequentially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Hongyu Zhang , Yufan Deng , Zilin Pan , Peng-Tao Jiang , Bo Li , Qibin Hou , Zhiyang Dou , Zhen Dong , Daquan Zhou

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

Sequential recommendation plays an increasingly important role in many e-commerce services such as display advertisement and online shopping. With the rapid development of these services in the last two decades, users have accumulated a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Yongji Wu , Lu Yin , Defu Lian , Mingyang Yin , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

The personalization of search results has gained increasing attention in the past few years, thanks to the development of Neural Networks-based approaches for Information Retrieval and the importance of personalization in many search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Elias Bassani , Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi

Most sequential recommendation models capture the features of consecutive items in a user-item interaction history. Though effective, their representation expressiveness is still hindered by the sparse learning signals. As a result, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xu Yuan , Hongshen Chen , Yonghao Song , Xiaofang Zhao , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Bo Long

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

Most existing recommender systems represent a user's preference with a feature vector, which is assumed to be fixed when predicting this user's preferences for different items. However, the same vector cannot accurately capture a user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Fan Liu , Zhiyong Cheng , Changchang Sun , Yinglong Wang , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Measurement-induced phase transitions (MIPTs) epitomize new intellectual pursuits inspired by the advent of quantum hardware and the emergence of discrete and programmable circuit dynamics. Nevertheless, experimentally observing this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-25 Hyejin Kim , Abhishek Kumar , Yiqing Zhou , Yichen Xu , Romain Vasseur , Eun-Ah Kim

Physical processes, camera movement, and unpredictable environmental conditions like the presence of dust can induce noise and artifacts in video feeds. We observe that popular unsupervised MOT methods are dependent on noise-free inputs. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 C. -H. Huck Yang , Mohit Chhabra , Y. -C. Liu , Quan Kong , Tomoaki Yoshinaga , Tomokazu Murakami

The aim of multi-agent reinforcement learning systems is to provide interacting agents with the ability to collaboratively learn and adapt to the behavior of other agents. In many real-world applications, the agents can only acquire a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Mingyang Geng , Kele Xu , Yiying Li , Shuqi Liu , Bo Ding , Huaimin Wang

This paper proposes Medley of Sub-Attention Networks (MoSAN), a new novel neural architecture for the group recommendation task. Group-level recommendation is known to be a challenging task, in which intricate group dynamics have to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Lucas Vinh Tran , Tuan-Anh Nguyen Pham , Yi Tay , Yiding Liu , Gao Cong , Xiaoli Li

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly facilitated the development of sequential recommender systems by achieving state-of-the-art recommendation performance on various sequential recommendation tasks. Given a sequence of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Peng-Fei Zhang , Hongzhi Yin

Different annotators often assign different labels to the same sample due to backgrounds or preferences, and such labeling patterns are referred to as tendency. In multi-annotator scenarios, we introduce a novel task called Multi-annotator…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Liyun Zhang , Zheng Lian , Hong Liu , Takanori Takebe , Yuta Nakashima

Sequential dynamics are a key feature of many modern recommender systems, which seek to capture the `context' of users' activities on the basis of actions they have performed recently. To capture such patterns, two approaches have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Wang-Cheng Kang , Julian McAuley

In recommender systems, multi-behavior methods have demonstrated their effectiveness in mitigating issues like data sparsity, a common challenge in traditional single-behavior recommendation approaches. These methods typically infer user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mingshi Yan , Fan Liu , Jing Sun , Fuming Sun , Zhiyong Cheng , Yahong Han