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Semantic ID (SID)-based recommendation is a promising paradigm for scaling sequential recommender systems, but existing methods largely follow a semantic-centric pipeline: item embeddings are learned from foundation models and discretized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Liang , Zhongjin Zhang , Yuxuan Zhu , Kerui Zhang , Zhiluohan Guo , Wenhang Zhou , Zonqi Yang , Kangle Wu , Yabo Ni , Anxiang Zeng , Cong Fu , Jianxin Wang , Jiazhi Xia

Sequential Recommendation (SR) task involves predicting the next item a user is likely to interact with, given their past interactions. The SR models examine the sequence of a user's actions to discern more complex behavioral patterns and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wujiang Xu , Qitian Wu , Zujie Liang , Jiaojiao Han , Xuying Ning , Yunxiao Shi , Wenfang Lin , Yongfeng Zhang

Existing sequential recommendation methods rely on large amounts of training data and usually suffer from the data sparsity problem. To tackle this, the pre-training mechanism has been widely adopted, which attempts to leverage large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Chaojun Xiao , Ruobing Xie , Yuan Yao , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin

In Semantic-ID (SID) based generative recommendation, each item is represented as a sequence of discrete codes, and an autoregressive model is trained to generate the SID sequence of the next item; top-K performance is then measured by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Qian Zhang , Lech Szymanski , Haibo Zhang , Jeremiah D. Deng

ID-based Recommender Systems (RecSys), where each item is assigned a unique identifier and subsequently converted into an embedding vector, have dominated the designing of RecSys. Though prevalent, such ID-based paradigm is not suitable for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Pengpeng Zhao , Qi Guo , Fajie Yuan , Xiaofang Zhou

Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) methods heavily rely on explicit item IDs to capture user preferences over time. This reliance introduces critical limitations in cold-start scenarios and domain transfer tasks, where unseen items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Wuhan Chen , Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Xin Xia , Feng Jiang , Junhao Wen

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

Reciprocal recommender system (RRS), considering a two-way matching between two parties, has been widely applied in online platforms like online dating and recruitment. Existing RRS models mainly capture static user preferences, which have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Bowen Zheng , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yang Song , Hengshu Zhu

Although existing multimodal recommendation models have shown promising performance, their effectiveness continues to be limited by the pervasive data sparsity problem. This problem arises because users typically interact with only a small…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Zitong Wan , Hewei Wang , Weijie Liu , Yijie Li , Edith C. H. Ngai

Large-scale short-video search ranking models are typically trained on sparse co-occurrence signals over hashed item identifiers (HIDs). While effective at memorizing frequent interactions, such ID-based models struggle to generalize to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Guowen Li , Yuepeng Zhang , Shunyu Zhang , Yi Zhang , Xiaoze Jiang , Yi Wang , Jingwei Zhuo

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

Recommending cold-start items is a long-standing and fundamental challenge in recommender systems. Without any historical interaction on cold-start items, CF scheme fails to use collaborative signals to infer user preference on these items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang , Qi Li , Liqiang Nie , Yan Li , Xuanping Li , Tat-Seng Chua

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammmadmahdi Maheri , Reza Abdollahzadeh , Bardia Mohammadi , Mina Rafiei , Jafar Habibi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item a user is likely to prefer based on their sequential interaction history. Recently, text-based sequential recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that uses pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hyunsoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Jongwuk Lee

Sequential recommendation addresses the issue of preference drift by predicting the next item based on the user's previous behaviors. Recently, a promising approach using contrastive learning has emerged, demonstrating its effectiveness in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Dongjun Lee , Donggeun Ko , Jaekwang Kim

Sequential Recommendation (SR) learns user preferences from their historical interaction sequences and provides personalized suggestions. In real-world scenarios, most items exhibit sparse interactions, known as the tail-item problem. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhifu Wei , Yizhou Dang , Guibing Guo , Chuang Zhao , Zhu Sun

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing the next-generation recommender systems (RSs) based on pretrained large language models (LLMs). However, the semantic gap between natural language and recommendation tasks is still not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yaochen Zhu , Liang Wu , Qi Guo , Liangjie Hong , Jundong Li

Modern recommender systems must adapt to dynamic, need-specific objectives for diverse recommendation scenarios, yet most traditional recommenders are optimized for a single static target and struggle to reconfigure behavior on demand.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Yijun Pan , Weikang Qiu , Qiyao Ma , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Rex Ying

Modern Sequential Recommendation (SR) models commonly utilize modality features to represent items, motivated in large part by recent advancements in language and vision modeling. To do so, several works completely replace ID embeddings…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Liam Collins , Bhuvesh Kumar , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Donald Loveland , Leonardo Neves , Neil Shah

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