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Reinforcement learning-based recommender systems have recently gained popularity. However, the design of the reward function, on which the agent relies to optimize its recommendation policy, is often not straightforward. Exploring the…

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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…

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Shared-account Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (SCSR) task aims to recommend the next item via leveraging the mixed user behaviors in multiple domains. It is gaining immense research attention as more and more users tend to sign up…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Lei Guo , Jinyu Zhang , Li Tang , Tong Chen , Lei Zhu , Hongzhi Yin

Sequential recommender systems aim to model users' evolving interests from their historical behaviors, and hence make customized time-relevant recommendations. Compared with traditional models, deep learning approaches such as CNN and RNN…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Chang Liu , Xiaoguang Li , Guohao Cai , Zhenhua Dong , Hong Zhu , Lifeng Shang

With the rapid growth of user historical behavior data, user interest modeling has become a prominent aspect in Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, focusing on learning user intent representations. However, this complexity poses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Xin Song , Xiaochen Li , Jinxin Hu , Hong Wen , Zulong Chen , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Although prevailing supervised and self-supervised learning augmented sequential recommendation (SeRec) models have achieved improved performance with powerful neural network architectures, we argue that they still suffer from two…

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Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) have shown superior performance over conventional methods. However, they show limited scalability on large-scale industrial datasets since most models learn one embedding per item. This leads to a…

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Nowadays, news apps have taken over the popularity of paper-based media, providing a great opportunity for personalization. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based sequential recommendation is a popular approach that utilizes users' recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Bing Bai , Guanhua Zhang , Ye Lin , Hao Li , Kun Bai , Bo Luo

In recent years, BERT has made significant breakthroughs on many natural language processing tasks and attracted great attentions. Despite its accuracy gains, the BERT model generally involves a huge number of parameters and needs to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Cheng Yang , Shengnan Wang , Yuechuan Li , Chao Yang , Ming Yan , Jingqiao Zhang , Fangquan Lin

Sequential recommendation is an important task to predict the next-item to access based on a sequence of interacted items. Most existing works learn user preference as the transition pattern from the previous item to the next one, ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yizhou Dang , Enneng Yang , Guibing Guo , Linying Jiang , Xingwei Wang , Xiaoxiao Xu , Qinghui Sun , Hong Liu

Recently, Memory-based Neural Recommenders (MNR) have demonstrated superior predictive accuracy in the task of sequential recommendations, particularly for modeling long-term item dependencies. However, typical MNR requires complex memory…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Shilin Qu , Fajie Yuan , Guibing Guo , Liguang Zhang , Wei Wei

Sequential Recommendation (SR) task involves predicting the next item a user is likely to interact with, given their past interactions. The SR models examine the sequence of a user's actions to discern more complex behavioral patterns and…

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In this paper, we focus on the often-overlooked issue of embedding collapse in existing diffusion-based sequential recommendation models and propose ADRec, an innovative framework designed to mitigate this problem. Diverging from previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jialei Chen , Yuanbo Xu , Yiheng Jiang

Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CSR) is an emerging yet challenging task that depicts the evolution of behavior patterns for overlapped users by modeling their interactions from multiple domains. Existing studies on CSR mainly focus…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jinyu Zhang , Huichuan Duan , Lei Guo , Liancheng Xu , Xinhua Wang

This study aims at comparing two sequential recommender systems: Self-Attention based Sequential Recommendation (SASRec), and Beyond Self-Attention based Sequential Recommendation (BSARec) in order to check the improvement frequency…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Chiara D'Ercoli , Giulia Di Teodoro , Federico Siciliano

Linear attention offers a computationally efficient yet expressive alternative to softmax attention. However, recent empirical results indicate that the hidden state of trained linear attention models often exhibits a low-rank structure,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Philipp Nazari , T. Konstantin Rusch

BERT based ranking models have achieved superior performance on various information retrieval tasks. However, the large number of parameters and complex self-attention operation come at a significant latency overhead. To remedy this, recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Nachshon Cohen , Amit Portnoy , Besnik Fetahu , Amir Ingber

Sequential recommendation methods can capture dynamic user preferences from user historical interactions to achieve better performance. However, most existing methods only use past information extracted from user historical interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiafeng Xia , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Li Shang , Ning Gu

Sequential self-attention models usually rely on additive positional embeddings, which inject positional information into item representations at the input. In the absence of positional signals, the attention block is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Timur Nabiev , Evgeny Frolov

Attention-based models have been widely used in many areas, such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, relevant applications in time series classification (TSC) have not been explored deeply yet, causing a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Bowen Zhao , Huanlai Xing , Xinhan Wang , Fuhong Song , Zhiwen Xiao