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Session-based recommendation systems must capture implicit user intents from sessions. However, existing models suffer from issues such as item interaction dominance and noisy sessions. We propose a multi-channel recommendation model,…

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Modern recommendation systems face significant challenges in processing multimodal sequential data, particularly in temporal dynamics modeling and information flow coordination. Traditional approaches struggle with distribution…

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The growing ubiquity of Extended Reality (XR) is driving Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS) toward visually immersive experiences. We formalize this paradigm as Immersive CRS (ICRS), where recommended items are highlighted directly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiazhou Liang , Yifan Simon Liu , David Guo , Minqi Sun , Yilun Jiang , Scott Sanner

Existing sequential recommendation models, even advanced diffusion-based approaches, often struggle to capture the rich semantic intent underlying user behavior, especially for new users or long-tail items. This limitation stems from their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Bo-Chian Chen , Manel Slokom

Social recommendation leverages social network to complement user-item interaction data for recommendation task, aiming to mitigate the data sparsity issue in recommender systems. However, existing social recommendation methods encounter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Wenjie Chen , Yi Zhang , Honghao Li , Lei Sang , Yiwen Zhang

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) leverages user behaviors across domains to enhance recommendation quality. However, naive aggregation of sequential signals can introduce conflicting domain-specific preferences, leading to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiaoxin Ye , Chengkai Huang , Hongtao Huang , Lina Yao

Diffusion-based recommender systems (DR) have gained increasing attention for their advanced generative and denoising capabilities. However, existing DR face two central limitations: (i) a trade-off between enhancing generative capacity via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Gyuseok Lee , Yaochen Zhu , Hwanjo Yu , Yao Zhou , Jundong Li

To tackle cold-start and data sparsity issues in recommender systems, numerous multimodal, sequential, and contrastive techniques have been proposed. While these augmentations can boost recommendation performance, they tend to add noise and…

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

In real-world recommendation scenarios, users typically engage with platforms through multiple types of behavioral interactions. Multi-behavior recommendation algorithms aim to leverage various auxiliary user behaviors to enhance prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hengyu Zhang , Chunxu Shen , Xiangguo Sun , Jie Tan , Yanchao Tan , Yu Rong , Hong Cheng , Lingling Yi

Multimodal Recommendation (MMR) systems are crucial for modern platforms but are often hampered by inherent noise and uncertainty in modal features, such as blurry images, diverse visual appearances, or ambiguous text. Existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinzhuo Wu , Hongbo Wang , Yuan Lin , Kan Xu , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

In recommender systems, the user-item interaction data is usually sparse and not sufficient for learning comprehensive user/item representations for recommendation. To address this problem, we propose a novel dual-bridging recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Jingwei Ma , Jiahui Wen , Mingyang Zhong , Liangchen Liu , Chaojie Li , Weitong Chen , Yin Yang , Honghui Tu , Xue Li

Modern recommender systems struggle to effectively utilize the rich, yet high-dimensional and noisy, multi-modal features generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Treating these features as static inputs decouples them from the core…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Jiahao Tian , Zhenkai Wang

Acquiring valuable data from the rapidly expanding information on the internet has become a significant concern, and recommender systems have emerged as a widely used and effective tool for helping users discover items of interest. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Steven Hoi , Edith Ngai

Multi-behavior recommendation faces a critical challenge in practice: auxiliary behaviors (e.g., clicks, carts) are often noisy, weakly correlated, or semantically misaligned with the target behavior (e.g., purchase), which leads to biased…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Miaomiao Cai , Zhijie Zhang , Junfeng Fang , Zhiyong Cheng , Xiang Wang , Meng Wang

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) aim to suggest next item for a user based on her historical interaction sequences. Recently, many research efforts have been devoted to attenuate the influence of noisy items in sequences by either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaofei Zhu , Liang Li , Weidong Liu , Xin Luo

Session-based recommendation is devoted to characterizing preferences of anonymous users based on short sessions. Existing methods mostly focus on mining limited item co-occurrence patterns exposed by item ID within sessions, while ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Chenliang Li , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Due to the difficulty of acquiring large-scale explicit user feedback, implicit feedback (e.g., clicks or other interactions) is widely applied as an alternative source of data, where user-item interactions can be modeled as a bipartite…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Xinyu He , Jose Sepulveda , Mostafa Rahmani , Alyssa Woo , Fei Wang , Hanghang Tong

Multi-behavioral recommender systems have emerged as a solution to address data sparsity and cold-start issues by incorporating auxiliary behaviors alongside target behaviors. However, existing models struggle to accurately capture varying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Zhiyong Cheng , Jianhua Dong , Fan Liu , Lei Zhu , Xun Yang , Meng Wang

Personalized recommender systems aim to predict users' preferences for items. It has become an indispensable part of online services. Online social platforms enable users to form groups based on their common interests. The users' group…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Xiaolong Liu , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Xiaohan Li , Mingdai Yang , Chen Wang , Philip S. Yu

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang