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Multi-modal sequential recommendation systems leverage auxiliary signals (e.g., text, images) to alleviate data sparsity in user-item interactions. While recent methods exploit large language models to encode modalities into discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Kaiyuan Li , Rui Xiang , Yong Bai , Yongxiang Tang , Yanhua Cheng , Xialong Liu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

BERT4Rec is an effective model for sequential recommendation based on the Transformer architecture. In the original publication, BERT4Rec claimed superiority over other available sequential recommendation approaches (e.g. SASRec), and it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Aleksandr Petrov , Craig Macdonald

Transformer-based sequential recommenders, such as SASRec or BERT4Rec, typically rely solely on learned item ID embeddings, making them vulnerable to the item cold-start problem, particularly in environments with dynamic item catalogs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jan Malte Lichtenberg , Antonio De Candia , Matteo Ruffini

Multimodal recommendation is commonly framed as a feature fusion problem, where textual and visual signals are combined to better model user preference. However, the effectiveness of multimodal recommendation may depend not only on how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Ty Valencia , Burak Barlas , Varun Singhal , Ruchir Bhatia , Wei Yang

While sequential recommendation achieves significant progress on capturing user-item transition patterns, transferring such large-scale recommender systems remains challenging due to the disjoint user and item groups across domains. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Zhenrui Yue , Huimin Zeng , Yang Zhang , Julian McAuley , Dong Wang

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Recently, the generality of natural language text has been leveraged to develop transferable recommender systems. The basic idea is to employ pre-trained language models~(PLM) to encode item text into item representations. Despite the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Yupeng Hou , Zhankui He , Julian McAuley , Wayne Xin Zhao

Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm aiming at directly generating the identifiers of the target candidates. Most existing methods attempt to leverage prior knowledge embedded in Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jianyang Zhai , Zi-Feng Mai , Chang-Dong Wang , Feidiao Yang , Xiawu Zheng , Hui Li , Yonghong Tian

The goal of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user's potential interested items based on her/his historical interaction sequences. Most existing sequential recommenders are developed based on ID features, which, despite their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinpeng Wang , Ziyun Zeng , Yunxiao Wang , Yuting Wang , Xingyu Lu , Tianxiang Li , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shu-Tao Xia

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

Sequential recommendation (SR) models predict a user's next interaction by modeling their historical behaviors. Transformer-based SR methods, notably BERT4Rec, effectively capture these patterns but incur significant computational overhead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Shankar Veludandi , Gulrukh Kurdistan , Uzma Mushtaque

Sequential recommendation systems that model dynamic preferences based on a use's past behavior are crucial to e-commerce. Recent studies on these systems have considered various types of information such as images and texts. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hyungtaik Oh , Wonkeun Jo , Dongil Kim

Sequential recommendation aims to predict a user's next action in large-scale recommender systems. While traditional methods often suffer from insufficient information interaction, recent generative recommendation models partially address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Yucheng Mao , Lingyu Mu , Jinxin Hu , Yi Xu , Hao Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Shizhun Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

Sequential recommendation methods are increasingly important in cutting-edge recommender systems. Through leveraging historical records, the systems can capture user interests and perform recommendations accordingly. State-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chong Liu , Xiaoyang Liu , Rongqin Zheng , Lixin Zhang , Xiaobo Liang , Juntao Li , Lijun Wu , Min Zhang , Leyu Lin

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Panfeng Cao , Pietro Lio

Sequential Recommendation (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world recommender systems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

Language representation learning has emerged as a promising approach for sequential recommendation, thanks to its ability to learn generalizable representations. However, despite its advantages, this approach still struggles with data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Minh-Anh Nguyen , Dung D. Le

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as promising tools for recommendation thanks to their advanced textual understanding ability and context-awareness. Despite the current practice of training and evaluating LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Kibum Kim , Jiwan Kim , Donghyun Kim , Minchul Yang , Kwangjin Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park
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