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Sequential user modeling, a critical task in personalized recommender systems, focuses on predicting the next item a user would prefer, requiring a deep understanding of user behavior sequences. Despite the remarkable success of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Hao Wang , Jianxun Lian , Mingqi Wu , Haoxuan Li , Jiajun Fan , Wanyue Xu , Chaozhuo Li , Xing Xie

Recommender systems are ubiquitous in on-line services to drive businesses. And many sequential recommender models were deployed in these systems to enhance personalization. The approach of using the transformer decoder as the sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zan Huang

By generating new yet effective data, data augmentation has become a promising method to mitigate the data sparsity problem in sequential recommendation. Existing works focus on augmenting the original data but rarely explore the issue of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yizhou Dang , Jiahui Zhang , Yuting Liu , Enneng Yang , Yuliang Liang , Guibing Guo , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

Representation learning is essential for deep-neural-network-based recommender systems to capture user preferences and item features within fixed-dimensional user and item vectors. Unlike existing representation learning methods that either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Riwei Lai , Li Chen , Weixin Chen , Rui Chen

Traditional sequential recommendation (SR) methods heavily rely on explicit item IDs to capture user preferences over time. This reliance introduces critical limitations in cold-start scenarios and domain transfer tasks, where unseen items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Wuhan Chen , Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Xin Xia , Feng Jiang , Junhao Wen

The major task of any e-commerce search engine is to retrieve the most relevant inventory items, which best match the user intent reflected in a query. This task is non-trivial due to many reasons, including ambiguous queries, misaligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Md. Ahsanul Kabir , Mohammad Al Hasan , Aritra Mandal , Liyang Hao , Ishita Khan , Daniel Tunkelang , Zhe Wu

Sequential Recommendation (SR) models user dynamics and predicts the next preferred items based on the user history. Existing SR methods model the 'was interacted before' item-item transitions observed in sequences, which can be viewed as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Chen Wang , Peijie Huang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

In e-commerce, the watchlist enables users to track items over time and has emerged as a primary feature, playing an important role in users' shopping journey. Watchlist items typically have multiple attributes whose values may change over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Uriel Singer , Haggai Roitman , Yotam Eshel , Alexander Nus , Ido Guy , Or Levi , Idan Hasson , Eliyahu Kiperwasser

Sequential recommendation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance using self-attention mechanism. It has since been found that moving beyond only using item ID and positional embeddings leads to a significant accuracy boost when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Linsey Pang , Amir Hossein Raffiee , Wei Liu , Keld Lundgaard

Transformer-based rankers have shown state-of-the-art performance. However, their self-attention operation is mostly unable to process long sequences. One of the common approaches to train these rankers is to heuristically select some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Youngwoo Kim , Razieh Rahimi , Hamed Bonab , James Allan

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) engage users in interactive dialogues to gather preferences and provide personalized recommendations. While existing studies have advanced conversational strategies, they often rely on predefined…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Haibo Sun , Naoki Otani , Hannah Kim , Dan Zhang , Nikita Bhutani

Reinforcement learning-based recommender systems have recently gained popularity. However, due to the typical limitations of simulation environments (e.g., data inefficiency), most of the work cannot be broadly applied in all domains. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Xiaocong Chen , Siyu Wang , Lina Yao

Representation learning in sequential recommendation is critical for accurately modeling user interaction patterns and improving recommendation precision. However, existing approaches predominantly emphasize item-to-item transitions, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Yang Liu , Yitong Wang , Chenyue Feng

Session-based recommendation is the task of predicting the next item a user will interact with, often without access to historical user data. In this work, we introduce Sequential Masked Modeling, a novel approach for encoder-only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Anis Redjdal , Luis Pinto , Michel Desmarais

We propose an algorithm for next query recommendation in interactive data exploration settings, like knowledge discovery for information gathering. The state-of-the-art query recommendation algorithms are based on sequence-to-sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Shameem A Puthiya Parambath , Christos Anagnostopoulos , Roderick Murray-Smith

Understanding gene regulation is a fundamental step towards understanding of how cells function and respond to environmental cues and perturbations. An important step in this direction is to infer the transcription factor-gene regulatory…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2017-04-25 Yijie Wang , Dong-Yeon Cho , Hangnoh Lee , Justin Fear , Brian Oliver , Teresa M Przytycka

Generative recommendation is emerging as a transformative paradigm by directly generating recommended items, rather than relying on matching. Building such a system typically involves two key components: (1) optimizing the tokenizer to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yimeng Bai , Chang Liu , Yang Zhang , Dingxian Wang , Frank Yang , Andrew Rabinovich , Wenge Rong , Fuli Feng

Generative retrieval methods utilize generative sequential modeling techniques, such as transformers, to generate candidate items for recommender systems. These methods have demonstrated promising results in academic benchmarks, surpassing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Prabhat Agarwal , Anirudhan Badrinath , Laksh Bhasin , Jaewon Yang , Edoardo Botta , Jiajing Xu , Charles Rosenberg

Timeliness and contextual accuracy of recommendations are increasingly important when delivering contemporary digital marketing experiences. Conventional recommender systems (RS) suggest relevant but time-invariant items to users by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xin Chen , Alex Reibman , Sanjay Arora