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User profiling has long been an important problem that investigates user interests in many real applications. Some recent works regard users and their interacted objects as entities of a graph and turn the problem into a node classification…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Qilong Yan , Yufeng Zhang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

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

To provide more accurate, diverse, and explainable recommendation, it is compulsory to go beyond modeling user-item interactions and take side information into account. Traditional methods like factorization machine (FM) cast it as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao , Meng Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

Dynamic recommendation systems aim to provide personalized suggestions by modeling temporal user-item interactions across time-series behavioral data. Recent studies have leveraged pre-trained dynamic graph neural networks (GNNs) to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhen Tao , Xinke Jiang , Qingshuai Feng , Haoyu Zhang , Lun Du , Yuchen Fang , Hao Miao , Bangquan Xie , Qingqiang Sun

A recommender system is an important subject in the field of data mining, where the item rating information from users is exploited and processed to make suitable recommendations with all other users. The recommender system creates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tin T. Tran , Vaclav Snasel , Loc Tan Nguyen

The problem of session-based recommendation aims to predict user actions based on anonymous sessions. Previous methods model a session as a sequence and estimate user representations besides item representations to make recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Shu Wu , Yuyuan Tang , Yanqiao Zhu , Liang Wang , Xing Xie , Tieniu Tan

In this work, we study group recommendation in a particular scenario, namely Occasional Group Recommendation (OGR). Most existing works have addressed OGR by aggregating group members' personal preferences to learn the group representation.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-10 Lei Guo , Hongzhi Yin , Tong Chen , Xiangliang Zhang , Kai Zheng

Sequential recommender systems have demonstrated a huge success for next-item recommendation by explicitly exploiting the temporal order of users' historical interactions. In practice, user interactions contain more useful temporal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Chen Rui , Liang Guotao , Ma Chenrui , Han Qilong , Li Li , Huang Xiao

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns users' preferences by capturing the sequential patterns from users' behaviors evolution. As discussed in many works, user-item interactions of SR generally present the intrinsic power-law distribution,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Naicheng Guo , Xiaolei Liu , Shaoshuai Li , Qiongxu Ma , Kaixin Gao , Bing Han , Lin Zheng , Xiaobo Guo

Recommender Systems are an integral part of music sharing platforms. Often the aim of these systems is to increase the time, the user spends on the platform and hence having a high commercial value. The systems which aim at increasing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Noveen Sachdeva , Kartik Gupta , Vikram Pudi

As an important branch in Recommender System, occasional group recommendation has received more and more attention. In this scenario, each occasional group (cold-start group) has no or few historical interacted items. As each occasional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bowen Hao , Hongzhi Yin , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Session-based recommendation targets next-item prediction by exploiting user behaviors within a short time period. Compared with other recommendation paradigms, session-based recommendation suffers more from the problem of data sparsity due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Lizhen Cui

Session-based Recommendation (SBR) is to predict users' next interested items based on their previous browsing sessions. Existing methods model sessions as graphs or sequences to estimate user interests based on their interacted items to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Xiaohan Li , Yuqing Liu , Zheng Liu , Philip S. Yu

Contemporary sequential recommendation methods are becoming more complex, shifting from classification to a diffusion-guided generative paradigm. However, the quality of guidance in the form of user information is often compromised by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Qilong Yan , Yifei Xing , Dugang Liu , Jingpu Duan , Jian Yin

Leveraging long-term user behavioral patterns is a key trajectory for enhancing the accuracy of modern recommender systems. While generative recommender systems have emerged as a transformative paradigm, they face hurdles in effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shiteng Cao , Junda She , Ji Liu , Bin Zeng , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Zhiheng Li , Cheng Yang

While current generative models have achieved promising performances in time-series synthesis, they either make strong assumptions on the data format (e.g., regularities) or rely on pre-processing approaches (e.g., interpolations) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yangming Li

The sequential recommendation (SR) task aims to predict the next item based on users' historical interaction sequences. Typically trained on historical data, SR models often struggle to adapt to real-time preference shifts during inference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xing Tang , Jingyang Bin , Ziqiang Cui , Xiaokun Zhang , Fuyuan Lyu , Jingyan Jiang , Dugang Liu , Chen Ma , Xiuqiang He

Time-series data in real-world medical settings typically exhibit long-range dependencies and are observed at non-uniform intervals. In such contexts, traditional sequence-based recurrent models struggle. To overcome this, researchers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-18 Fernando Moreno-Pino , Álvaro Arroyo , Harrison Waldon , Xiaowen Dong , Álvaro Cartea

The remarkable progress of network embedding has led to state-of-the-art algorithms in recommendation. However, the sparsity of user-item interactions (i.e., explicit preferences) on websites remains a big challenge for predicting users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Jun Zhao , Zhou Zhou , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Wei Ning , Guang Qiu , Xiaofei He

In recommendation systems, utilizing the user interaction history as sequential information has resulted in great performance improvement. However, in many online services, user interactions are commonly grouped by sessions that presumably…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Jinseok Seol , Youngrok Ko , Sang-goo Lee