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Sequential recommendation has become increasingly essential in various online services. It aims to model the dynamic preferences of users from their historical interactions and predict their next items. The accumulated user behavior records…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Qiaoyu Tan , Jianwei Zhang , Ninghao Liu , Xiao Huang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Xia Hu

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to predict the following item a user will interact with during an ongoing session. Most existing SBR models focus on designing sophisticated neural-based encoders to learn a session representation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Minjin Choi , Hye-young Kim , Hyunsouk Cho , Jongwuk Lee

Sequential recommendation aims to capture user preferences by modeling sequential patterns in user-item interactions. However, these models are often influenced by noise such as accidental interactions, leading to suboptimal performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Tongzhou Wu , Yuhao Wang , Maolin Wang , Chi Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao

Recent cross-domain recommendation (CDR) studies assume that disentangled domain-shared and domain-specific user representations can mitigate domain gaps and facilitate effective knowledge transfer. However, achieving perfect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Michael Sheng , Lina Yao

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

Modern deep neural networks (DNNs) have greatly facilitated the development of sequential recommender systems by achieving state-of-the-art recommendation performance on various sequential recommendation tasks. Given a sequence of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Peng-Fei Zhang , Hongzhi Yin

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to predict items that users may be interested in based on their historical behavior sequences. We revisit SR from a novel information-theoretic perspective and find that conventional sequential modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Wenjia Xie , Hao Wang , Luankang Zhang , Rui Zhou , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Online recommender systems (RS) aim to match user needs with the vast amount of resources available on various platforms. A key challenge is to model user preferences accurately under the condition of data sparsity. To address this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Ning Wu , Ming Gong , Linjun Shou , Jian Pei , Daxin Jiang

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Sequential recommendation (SR) models the dynamic user preferences and generates the next-item prediction as the affinity between the sequence and items, in a joint latent space with low dimensions (i.e., the sequence and item embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommender systems have achieved state-of-the-art recommendation performance by modeling the sequential dynamics of user activities. However, in most recommendation scenarios, the popular items comprise the major part of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yi Ren , Xu Zhao , Hongyan Tang , Shuai Li

In this work, we propose a Unified framework of Sequential Search and Recommendation (UnifiedSSR) for joint learning of user behavior history in both search and recommendation scenarios. Specifically, we consider user-interacted products in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Shang Liu , Gao Cong , Zhenzhong Chen

The user purchase behaviors are mainly influenced by their intentions (e.g., buying clothes for decoration, buying brushes for painting, etc.). Modeling a user's latent intention can significantly improve the performance of recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Guanfeng Liu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Victor S. Sheng

Calibrated recommendation, which aims to maintain personalized proportions of categories within recommendations, is crucial in practical scenarios since it enhances user satisfaction by reflecting diverse interests. However, achieving…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hyunsik Jeon , Se-eun Yoon , Julian McAuley

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Wujiang Xu , Qitian Wu , Zujie Liang , Jiaojiao Han , Xuying Ning , Yunxiao Shi , Wenfang Lin , Yongfeng Zhang

Characterizing users' interests accurately plays a significant role in an effective recommender system. The sequential recommender system can learn powerful hidden representations of users from successive user-item interactions and dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Lingxiao Zhang , Jiangpeng Yan , Yujiu Yang , Xiu Li

Recommender systems aim to provide personalized item recommendations by capturing user behaviors derived from their interaction history. Considering that user interactions naturally occur sequentially based on users' intents in mind, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijin Choi , Chiehyeon Lim

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

Sequential recommendation (SRS) has become the technical foundation in many applications recently, which aims to recommend the next item based on the user's historical interactions. However, sequential recommendation often faces the problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Qidong Liu , Fan Yan , Xiangyu Zhao , Zhaocheng Du , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Feng Tian

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to en-hance recommendation quality by transferring knowledge across domains, offering effective solutions to data sparsity and cold-start issues. However, existing methods face three major…

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