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In recommender systems, multi-behavior methods have demonstrated their effectiveness in mitigating issues like data sparsity, a common challenge in traditional single-behavior recommendation approaches. These methods typically infer user…

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Learning dynamic user preference has become an increasingly important component for many online platforms (e.g., video-sharing sites, e-commerce systems) to make sequential recommendations. Previous works have made many efforts to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Yuxuan Liang , Yanwei Yu , Chenliang Li

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

Session-based recommendation (SR) aims to dynamically recommend items to a user based on a sequence of the most recent user-item interactions. Most existing studies on SR adopt advanced deep learning methods. However, the majority only…

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Predicting the next interaction of a short-term sequence is a challenging task in session-based recommendation (SBR).Multi-behavior session recommendation considers session sequence with multiple interaction types, such as click and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Qi Shen , Lingfei Wu , Yitong Pang , Yiming Zhang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Bo Long

Session-based recommendation aims to predict the next item that anonymous users may be interested in, based on their current session interactions. Recent studies have demonstrated that retrieving neighbor sessions to augment the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yuhan Yang , Jie Zou , Guojia An , Jiwei Wei , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Sequential recommendation aims at identifying the next item that is preferred by a user based on their behavioral history. Compared to conventional sequential models that leverage attention mechanisms and RNNs, recent efforts mainly follow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yu Tian , Jianxin Chang , Yannan Niu , Yang Song , Chenliang Li

Group recommendation provides personalized recommendations to a group of users based on their shared interests, preferences, and characteristics. Current studies have explored different methods for integrating individual preferences and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Jianye Ji , Jiayan Pei , Shaochuan Lin , Taotao Zhou , Hengxu He , Jia Jia , Ning Hu

The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiao Zhou , Danyang Liu , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, and various…

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This paper addresses the challenge of jointly modeling user intent diversity and behavioral uncertainty in recommender systems. A unified representation learning framework is proposed. The framework builds a multi-intent representation…

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Preference optimization for diffusion models aims to align them with human preferences for images. Previous methods typically use Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as pixel-level reward models to approximate human preferences. However, when…

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Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, adopting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

Personalized sequential recommendation aims to predict appropriate items for users based on their behavioral sequences. To alleviate data sparsity and interest drift issues, conventional approaches typically incorporate auxiliary behaviors…

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Recommender models aim to capture user preferences from historical feedback and then predict user-specific feedback on candidate items. However, the presence of various unmeasured confounders causes deviations between the user preferences…

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Micro-video recommendation aims to capture user preferences from the collaborative and context information of the interacted micro-videos, thereby predicting the appropriate videos. This target is often hindered by the inherent noise within…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinxin Dong , Haokai Ma , Yuze Zheng , Yongfu Zha , Yonghui Yang , Xiaodong Wang

Forecasting multi-step user behavior trajectories requires reasoning over structured preferences across future actions, a challenge overlooked by traditional sequential recommendation. This problem is critical for applications such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hongtao Huang , Chengkai Huang , Junda Wu , Tong Yu , Julian McAuley , Lina Yao

Modern recommender systems often embed users and items into low-dimensional latent representations, based on their observed interactions. In practical recommendation scenarios, users often exhibit various intents which drive them to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Chao Huang , Peng Dai , Liefeng Bo

Many previous studies aim to augment collaborative filtering with deep neural network techniques, so as to achieve better recommendation performance. However, most existing deep learning-based recommender systems are designed for modeling…

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