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Although advancements in deep learning have significantly enhanced the recommendation accuracy of deep recommendation models, these methods still suffer from low recommendation efficiency. Recently proposed tree-based deep recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Ze Liu , Jin Zhang , Chao Feng , Defu Lian , Jie Wang , Enhong Chen

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Panfeng Cao , Pietro Lio

Sequential Recommendation (SR) predicts users next interactions by modeling the temporal order of their historical behaviors. Existing approaches, including traditional sequential models and generative recommenders, achieve strong…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sirui Huang , Jing Long , Qian Li , Guandong Xu , Qing Li

Despite the success of sequence-to-sequence approaches in automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems, the models still suffer from several problems, mainly due to the mismatch between the training and inference conditions. In the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Andros Tjandra , Sakriani Sakti , Satoshi Nakamura

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

We present our solution to the job recommendation task for RecSys Challenge 2016. The main contribution of our work is to combine temporal learning with sequence modeling to capture complex user-item activity patterns to improve job…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Kuan Liu , Xing Shi , Anoop Kumar , Linhong Zhu , Prem Natarajan

Fully fine-tuning pretrained large-scale transformer models has become a popular paradigm for video-language modeling tasks, such as temporal language grounding and video-language summarization. With a growing number of tasks and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Xiaobao Wu , Xinshuai Dong , Khoi Le , Zhiyuan Hu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , See-Kiong Ng , Luu Anh Tuan

Long-horizon tasks, which have a large discount factor, pose a challenge for most conventional reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Algorithms such as Value Iteration and Temporal Difference (TD) learning have a slow convergence rate and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Mark Bedaywi , Amin Rakhsha , Amir-massoud Farahmand

Modern ML systems increasingly augment input instances with additional relevant information to enhance final prediction. Despite growing interest in such retrieval-augmented models, their fundamental properties and training are not well…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Soumya Basu , Ankit Singh Rawat , Manzil Zaheer

Retrieval-augmented language models (RALMs) improve performance by accessing long-tail and up-to-date knowledge from external data stores, but are challenging to build. Existing approaches require either expensive retrieval-specific…

"High Quality Related Search Query Suggestions" task aims at recommending search queries which are real, accurate, diverse, relevant and engaging. Obtaining large amounts of query-quality human annotations is expensive. Prior work on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Praveen Kumar Bodigutla

Recommender systems have played an increasingly important role in providing users with tailored suggestions based on their preferences. However, the conventional offline recommender systems cannot handle the ubiquitous data stream well. To…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Yan Zhao , Shoujin Wang , Yan Wang , Hongwei Liu

Train timetable rescheduling (TTR) aims to promptly restore the original operation of trains after unexpected disturbances or disruptions. Currently, this work is still done manually by train dispatchers, which is challenging to maintain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Peng Yue , Yaochu Jin , Xuewu Dai , Zhenhua Feng , Dongliang Cui

Long-term engagement is preferred over immediate engagement in sequential recommendation as it directly affects product operational metrics such as daily active users (DAUs) and dwell time. Meanwhile, reinforcement learning (RL) is widely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Wanqi Xue , Qingpeng Cai , Ruohan Zhan , Dong Zheng , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Bo An

In Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRSs), Transformer models have demonstrated remarkable performance but face computational and memory cost challenges, especially when modeling long-term user behavior sequences. Due to its quadratic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Juntao Hu , Wei Zhou , Haini Cai , Xiao Du , Huayi Shen , Junhao Wen

Retrieval in Retrieval-Augmented Generation(RAG) must ensure that retrieved passages are not only individually relevant but also collectively form a comprehensive set. Existing approaches primarily rerank top-k passages based on their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dahyun Lee , Yongrae Jo , Haeju Park , Moontae Lee

Test-time adaptation (TTA) seeks to tackle potential distribution shifts between training and testing data by adapting a given model w.r.t. any testing sample. This task is particularly important for deep models when the test environment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Shuaicheng Niu , Jiaxiang Wu , Yifan Zhang , Yaofo Chen , Shijian Zheng , Peilin Zhao , Mingkui Tan

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems rely on retrieval models for identifying relevant contexts and answer generation models for utilizing those contexts. However, retrievers exhibit imperfect recall and precision, limiting…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jerry Huang , Siddarth Madala , Risham Sidhu , Cheng Niu , Hao Peng , Julia Hockenmaier , Tong Zhang

Previous research on code intelligence usually trains a deep learning model on a fixed dataset in an offline manner. However, in real-world scenarios, new code repositories emerge incessantly, and the carried new knowledge is beneficial for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Shuzheng Gao , Hongyu Zhang , Cuiyun Gao , Chaozheng Wang

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to capture users' dynamic interests and sequential patterns based on their historical interactions. Recently, the powerful capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have driven their adoption in SR.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yuhao Wang , Junwei Pan , Xinhang Li , Maolin Wang , Yuan Wang , Yue Liu , Dapeng Liu , Jie Jiang , Xiangyu Zhao