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The exponential growth of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) has greatly stimulated the demand for precise location-based recommendation services. Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, which aims to provide personalised POI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Peng-Fei Zhang , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

The Session-Based Recommendation System aims to predict the user's next click based on their previous session sequence. The current studies generally learn user preferences according to the transitions of items in the user's session…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jinpeng Chen , Haiyang Li , Xudong Zhang , Fan Zhang , Senzhang Wang , Kaimin Wei , Jiaqi Ji

Knowledge graph embedding, which aims to learn the low-dimensional representations of entities and relationships, has attracted considerable research efforts recently. However, most knowledge graph embedding methods focus on the structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Yonghui Xu , Shengjie Sun , Yuan Miao , Dong Yang , Xiaonan Meng , Yi Hu , Ke Wang , Hengjie Song , Chuanyan Miao

User interests typically encompass both long-term preferences and short-term intentions, reflecting the dynamic nature of user behaviors across different timeframes. The uneven temporal distribution of user interactions highlights the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wei Zhou , Yue Shen , Junkai Ji , Yinglan Feng , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He , Liang Feng , Zexuan Zhu

Precise user modeling is critical for online personalized recommendation services. Generally, users' interests are diverse and are not limited to a single aspect, which is particularly evident when their behaviors are observed for a longer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Jianxun Lian , Iyad Batal , Zheng Liu , Akshay Soni , Eun Yong Kang , Yajun Wang , Xing Xie

Recently, recommendation according to sequential user behaviors has shown promising results in many application scenarios. Generally speaking, real-world sequential user behaviors usually reflect a hybrid of sequential influences and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Xu Chen , Kenan Cui , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Generative recommenders, typically transformer-based autoregressive models, predict the next item or action from a user's interaction history. Their effectiveness depends on how the model represents where an interaction event occurs in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiaokai Wei , Jiajun Wu , Daiyao Yi , Reza Shirkavand , Michelle Gong

User interaction data in recommender systems is a form of dyadic relation that reflects the preferences of users with items. Learning the representations of these two discrete sets of objects, users and items, is critical for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Hongyu Zhou , Xin Zhou , Lingzi Zhang , Zhiqi Shen

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

Multivariate time series forecasting has long received significant attention in real-world applications, such as energy consumption and traffic prediction. While recent methods demonstrate good forecasting abilities, they have three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ming Jin , Yu Zheng , Yuan-Fang Li , Siheng Chen , Bin Yang , Shirui Pan

Temporal collaborative filtering (TCF) methods aim at modelling non-static aspects behind recommender systems, such as the dynamics in users' preferences and social trends around items. State-of-the-art TCF methods employ recurrent neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Esther Rodrigo Bonet , Duc Minh Nguyen , Nikos Deligiannis

Users prefer diverse recommendations over homogeneous ones. However, most previous work on Sequential Recommenders does not consider diversity, and strives for maximum accuracy, resulting in homogeneous recommendations. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Anton Steenvoorden , Emanuele Di Gloria , Wanyu Chen , Pengjie Ren , Maarten de Rijke

Recommender systems are fundamental information filtering techniques to recommend content or items that meet users' personalities and potential needs. As a crucial solution to address the difficulty of user identification and unavailability…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Xiaolin Zheng , Rui Wu , Zhongxuan Han , Chaochao Chen , Linxun Chen , Bing Han

Modeling users for the purpose of identifying their preferences and then personalizing services on the basis of these models is a complex task, primarily due to the need to take into consideration various explicit and implicit signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Amit Tiroshi , Tsvi Kuflik , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

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

Personalized recommendations are popular in these days of Internet driven activities, specifically shopping. Recommendation methods can be grouped into three major categories, content based filtering, collaborative filtering and machine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Yuhao Mao , Serguei A. Mokhov , Sudhir P. Mudur

Traditional sequential recommendation methods assume that users' sequence data is clean enough to learn accurate sequence representations to reflect user preferences. In practice, users' sequences inevitably contain noise (e.g., accidental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Chi Zhang , Qilong Han , Rui Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Tang , Hongtao Song

In the era of information explosion, Recommender Systems (RS) are essential for alleviating information overload and providing personalized user experiences. Recent advances in diffusion-based generative recommenders have shown promise in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chengyi Liu , Xiao Chen , Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation aims to capture users' dynamic interests by modeling diverse types of user interactions over time. Although several studies have explored this setting, the recommendation performance remains…

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