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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

While some powerful neural network architectures (e.g., Transformer, Graph Neural Networks) have achieved improved performance in sequential recommendation with high-order item dependency modeling, they may suffer from poor representation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Yaowen Ye , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Modern recommender systems face critical challenges in handling information overload while addressing the inherent limitations of multimodal representation learning. Existing methods suffer from three fundamental limitations: (1) restricted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Hewei Wang , Shuo Yang , Zitong Wan , Haibo Hu

Sequential recommendation plays a critical role in modern online platforms such as e-commerce, advertising, and content streaming, where accurately predicting users' next interactions is essential for personalization. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Haofeng Huang , Ling Gai

This paper presents an open-source toolbox, MMRec for multimodal recommendation. MMRec simplifies and canonicalizes the process of implementing and comparing multimodal recommendation models. The objective of MMRec is to provide a unified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Xin Zhou

Sequential Recommendation (SR) models infer user preferences from interaction histories. While transferable Multi-modal SR models outperform traditional ID-based approaches, existing methods struggle with slow fine-tuning convergence due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Hao Fan , Qingyang Liu , Hongjiu Liu , Yanrong Hu , Kai Fang

Sequential recommendation based on multi-interest framework models the user's recent interaction sequence into multiple different interest vectors, since a single low-dimensional vector cannot fully represent the diversity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Jie Zhang , Ke-Jia Chen , Jingqiang Chen

In the realm of music recommendation, sequential recommender systems have shown promise in capturing the dynamic nature of music consumption. Nevertheless, traditional Transformer-based models, such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, while effective,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Davide Abbattista , Vito Walter Anelli , Tommaso Di Noia , Craig Macdonald , Aleksandr Vladimirovich Petrov

Sequential recommendation systems model dynamic preferences of users based on their historical interactions with platforms. Despite recent progress, modeling short-term and long-term behavior of users in such systems is nontrivial and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Mehrnaz Amjadi , Seyed Danial Mohseni Taheri , Theja Tulabandhula

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xinping Zhao , Baotian Hu , Yan Zhong , Shouzheng Huang , Zihao Zheng , Meng Wang , Haofen Wang , Min Zhang

Multimodal recommender systems (MMRS) leverage images, text, and interaction signals to enrich item representations. However, recent alignment based MMRSs that enforce a unified embedding space often blur modality specific structures and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yonghun Jeong , David Yoon Suk Kang , Yeon-Chang Lee

Multimodal recommendation systems are increasingly popular for their potential to improve performance by integrating diverse data types. However, the actual benefits of this integration remain unclear, raising questions about when and how…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Hongyu Zhou , Yinan Zhang , Aixin Sun , Zhiqi Shen

Context-aware recommendation systems improve upon classical recommender systems by including, in the modelling, a user's behaviour. Research into context-aware recommendation systems has previously only considered the sequential ordering of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Mufhumudzi Muthivhi , Terence L. van Zyl , Hairong Wang

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations by interacting with users through conversations. Most existing studies of CRS focus on extracting user preferences from conversational contexts. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yibiao Wei , Jie Zou , Weikang Guo , Guoqing Wang , Xing Xu , Yang Yang

Sequential recommendation predicts user preferences over time and has achieved remarkable success. However, the growing length of user interaction sequences and the complex entanglement of evolving user interests and intentions introduce…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Haoran Zhang , Jingtong Liu , Jiangzhou Deng , Junpeng Guo

The explosion of multimedia data in information-rich environments has intensified the challenges of personalized content discovery, positioning recommendation systems as an essential form of passive data management. Multimodal sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Yijie Li , Jianheng Tang , Yunhuai Liu , Edith C. H. Ngai

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have generated considerable interest in their utilization for sequential recommendation tasks. While collaborative signals from similar users are central to recommendation modeling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tong Zhang

Multimedia content is of predominance in the modern Web era. Investigating how users interact with multimodal items is a continuing concern within the rapid development of recommender systems. The majority of previous work focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jinghao Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Shuhui Wang , Liang Wang

Sequential patterns play an important role in building modern recommender systems. To this end, several recommender systems have been built on top of Markov Chains and Recurrent Models (among others). Although these sequential models have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-28 An Yan , Shuo Cheng , Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

In recent years, substantial research efforts have been devoted to enhancing sequential recommender systems by integrating abundant side information with ID-based collaborative information. This study specifically focuses on leveraging the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen