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Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict users' next click based on their behavior within a short period, which is crucial for online platforms. However, most existing SR methods somewhat ignore the fact that user preference is not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Kai Ouyang , Xianghong Xu , Miaoxin Chen , Zuotong Xie , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shuangyong Song , Yu Zhao

A transparent decision-making process is essential for developing reliable and trustworthy recommender systems. For sequential recommendation, it means that the model can identify key items that account for its recommendation results.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kun Ma , Cong Xu , Zeyuan Chen , Wei Zhang

Attributes, such as metadata and profile, carry useful information which in principle can help improve accuracy in recommender systems. However, existing approaches have difficulty in fully leveraging attribute information due to practical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Kuan Liu , Xing Shi , Prem Natarajan

Sequential Recommendation System~(SRS) has become pivotal in modern society, which predicts subsequent actions based on the user's historical behavior. However, traditional collaborative filtering-based sequential recommendation models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Tianjie Dai , Xu Chen , Yunmeng Shu , Jinsong Lan , Xiaoyong Zhu , Jiangchao Yao , Bo Zheng

Search and recommendation (S&R) are fundamental components of modern online platforms, yet effectively leveraging search behaviors to improve recommendation remains a challenging problem. User search histories often contain noisy or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Teng Shi , Weicong Qin , Weijie Yu , Xiao Zhang , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Jun Xu

Recommender systems (RS) suggest items-based on the estimated preferences of users. Recent RS methods utilise vector space embeddings and deep learning methods to make efficient recommendations. However, most of these methods overlook the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Makbule Gulcin Ozsoy

Learning from user interaction history through sequential models has become a cornerstone of large-scale recommender systems. Recent advances in large language models have revealed promising scaling laws, sparking a surge of research into…

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as a powerful technique for learning rich representations from unlabeled data. The data representations are able to capture many underlying attributes of data, and be useful in downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Weicheng Zhu , Sheng Liu , Carlos Fernandez-Granda , Narges Razavian

Recommender systems is set up to address the issue of information overload in traditional information retrieval systems, which is focused on recommending information that is of most interest to users from massive information. Generally,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Xiaoqing Chen , Zhitao Li , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Modeling the sequential correlation of users' historical interactions is essential in sequential recommendation. However, the majority of the approaches mainly focus on modeling the \emph{intra-sequence} item correlation within each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feng Liu , Weiwen Liu , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye

Sequential recommender systems have shown effective suggestions by capturing users' interest drift. There have been two groups of existing sequential models: user- and item-centric models. The user-centric models capture personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Dongmin Hyun , Chanyoung Park , Junsu Cho , Hwanjo Yu

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) leverage natural language interactions for personalized recommendation, yet information-scarce dialogue histories and single-turn recommendation paradigms may severely hinder accurate modeling of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xingyuan Xiang , Xiangchen Pan , Wei Wei

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) are designed to predict users' future behaviors based on their historical interaction data. Recent research has increasingly utilized contrastive learning (CL) to leverage unsupervised signals to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peilin Zhou , You-Liang Huang , Yueqi Xie , Jingqi Gao , Shoujin Wang , Jae Boum Kim , Sunghun Kim

Recent progress in scaling large models has motivated recommender systems to increase model depth and capacity to better leverage massive behavioral data. However, recommendation inputs are high-dimensional and extremely sparse, and simply…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yantao Yu , Sen Qiao , Lei Shen , Bing Wang , Xiaoyi Zeng

Session-Based Recommenders (SBRs) aim to predict users' next preferences regard to their previous interactions in sessions while there is no historical information about them. Modern SBRs utilize deep neural networks to map users' current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Reza Yeganegi , Saman Haratizadeh

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

Recent cross-domain recommendation (CDR) studies assume that disentangled domain-shared and domain-specific user representations can mitigate domain gaps and facilitate effective knowledge transfer. However, achieving perfect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Michael Sheng , Lina Yao

Bias is a common problem inherent in recommender systems, which is entangled with users' preferences and poses a great challenge to unbiased learning. For debiasing tasks, the doubly robust (DR) method and its variants show superior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Haoxuan Li , Yan Lyu , Chunyuan Zheng , Peng Wu

Transformer-based approaches have demonstrated remarkable success in various sequence-based tasks. However, traditional self-attention models may not sufficiently capture the intricate dependencies within items in sequential recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yuli Liu , Min Liu , Xiaojing Liu

In sequence learning tasks such as language modelling, Recurrent Neural Networks must learn relationships between input features separated by time. State of the art models such as LSTM and Transformer are trained by backpropagation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Jeremy Gordon , David Rawlinson , Subutai Ahmad