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Sequential Recommendationdescribes a set of techniques to model dynamic user behavior in order to predict future interactions in sequential user data. At their core, such approaches model transition probabilities between items in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhiwei Liu , Yongjun Chen , Jia Li , Philip S. Yu , Julian McAuley , Caiming Xiong

Multimodal recommendation combines the user historical behaviors with the modal features of items to capture the tangible user preferences, presenting superior performance compared to the conventional ID-based recommender systems. However,…

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Sequential recommendation demonstrates the capability to recommend items by modeling the sequential behavior of users. Traditional methods typically treat users as sequences of items, overlooking the collaborative relationships among them.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Sijia Liu , Jiahao Liu , Hansu Gu , Dongsheng Li , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict future user-item interactions based on historical interactions. While many SR approaches concentrate on user IDs and item IDs, the human perception of the world through multi-modal signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Yuanqi He , Junchen Fu , Xiangyan Liu , Qi Guo

Traditional sequential recommendation methods assume that users' sequence data is clean enough to learn accurate sequence representations to reflect user preferences. In practice, users' sequences inevitably contain noise (e.g., accidental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Chi Zhang , Qilong Han , Rui Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Tang , Hongtao Song

Current multimodal sequential recommendation models are often unable to effectively explore and capture correlations among behavior sequences of users and items across different modalities, either neglecting correlations among sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Lingzi Zhang , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Zeng , Zhiqi Shen

Contrastive learning has proven effective in training sequential recommendation models by incorporating self-supervised signals from augmented views. Most existing methods generate multiple views from the same interaction sequence through…

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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

Multimodal recommendation systems integrate diverse multimodal information into the feature representations of both items and users, thereby enabling a more comprehensive modeling of user preferences. However, existing methods are hindered…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Qiya Song , Jiajun Hu , Lin Xiao , Bin Sun , Xieping Gao , Shutao Li

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict the subsequent behaviors of users by understanding their successive historical behaviors. Recently, some methods for SR are devoted to alleviating the data sparsity problem (i.e., limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ziyang Wang , Huoyu Liu , Wei Wei , Yue Hu , Xian-Ling Mao , Shaojian He , Rui Fang , Dangyang chen

Multi-modal recommender system focuses on utilizing rich modal information ( i.e., images and textual descriptions) of items to improve recommendation performance. The current methods have achieved remarkable success with the powerful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Shouxing Ma , Yawen Zeng , Shiqing Wu , Guandong Xu

Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Zhizheng Wang , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin

Sequential recommendation methods play a crucial role in modern recommender systems because of their ability to capture a user's dynamic interest from her/his historical interactions. Despite their success, we argue that these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Xu Xie , Fei Sun , Zhaoyang Liu , Shiwen Wu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Bin Cui

Contrastive learning (CL) has shown its power in recommendation. However, most CL-based recommendation models build their CL tasks merely focusing on the user's aspects, ignoring the rich diverse information in items. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Ruobing Xie , Zhijie Qiu , Bo Zhang , Leyu Lin

Contrastive learning has been effectively utilized to enhance the training of sequential recommendation models by leveraging informative self-supervised signals. Most existing approaches generate augmented views of the same user sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ziqiang Cui , Haolun Wu , Bowei He , Ji Cheng , Chen Ma

Recommender systems (RecSys) play a vital role in online platforms, offering users personalized suggestions amidst vast information. Graph contrastive learning aims to learn from high-order collaborative filtering signals with unsupervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Weizhi Zhang , Liangwei Yang , Zihe Song , Henry Peng Zou , Ke Xu , Yuanjie Zhu , Philip S. Yu

The integration of multimodal information into sequential recommender systems has attracted significant attention in recent research. In the initial stages of multimodal sequential recommendation models, the mainstream paradigm was…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Jiaxi Hu , Jingtong Gao , Xiangyu Zhao , Yuehong Hu , Yuxuan Liang , Yiqi Wang , Ming He , Zitao Liu , Hongzhi Yin

With the outbreak of today's streaming data, the sequential recommendation is a promising solution to achieve time-aware personalized modeling. It aims to infer the next interacted item of a given user based on the historical item sequence.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Guanyu Lin , Chen Gao , Yinfeng Li , Yu Zheng , Zhiheng Li , Depeng Jin , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Yong Li

In sequential recommendation, multi-modal information (e.g., text or image) can provide a more comprehensive view of an item's profile. The optimal stage (early or late) to fuse modality features into item representations is still debated.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Hengchang Hu , Wei Guo , Yong Liu , Min-Yen Kan

Federated sequential recommendation (FedSeqRec) aims to perform next-item prediction while keeping user data decentralised, yet model quality is frequently constrained by fragmented, noisy, and homogeneous interaction logs stored on…