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While recommender systems have significantly benefited from implicit feedback, they have often missed the nuances of multi-behavior interactions between users and items. Historically, these systems either amalgamated all behaviors, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Dong Li , Divya Bhargavi , Vidya Sagar Ravipati

Sequential recommendation tasks, which aim to predict the next item a user will interact with, typically rely on models trained solely on historical data. However, in real-world scenarios, user behavior can fluctuate in the long interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhaoqi Yang , Yanan Wang , Yong Ge

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a new paradigm in recommender systems. This approach relies on quantized representations to discretize item features, modeling users' historical interactions as sequences of discrete tokens.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fuwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Dongbo Xi , Jishen Yin , Huan Chen , Peng Yan , Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhao Zhang

Recommender systems have played a critical role in diverse digital services such as e-commerce, streaming media, social networks, etc. If we know what a user's intent is in a given session (e.g. do they want to watch short videos or a movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Sejoon Oh , Moumita Bhattacharya , Yesu Feng , Sudarshan Lamkhede

In the one-class recommendation problem, it's required to make recommendations basing on users' implicit feedback, which is inferred from their action and inaction. Existing works obtain representations of users and items by encoding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chu-Jen Shao , Hao-Ming Fu , Pu-Jen Cheng

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSR) aims to learn the dynamic and heterogeneous interactions of users' multi-behavior sequences, so as to capture user preferences under target behavior for the next interacted item prediction.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruochen Yang , Xiaodong Li , Jiawei Sheng , Jiangxia Cao , Xinkui Lin , Shen Wang , Shuang Yang , Zhaojie Liu , Tingwen Liu

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a critical task for many industrial systems, such as display advertising and recommender systems. Recently, modeling user behavior sequences attracts much attention and shows great improvements in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Yufei Feng , Fuyu Lv , Binbin Hu , Fei Sun , Kun Kuang , Yang Liu , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

Modeling user-item interaction patterns is an important task for personalized recommendations. Many recommender systems are based on the assumption that there exists a linear relationship between users and items while neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Sen Wang , Guodong Long , Manqing Dong

Sequential recommendation aims to choose the most suitable items for a user at a specific timestamp given historical behaviors. Existing methods usually model the user behavior sequence based on the transition-based methods like Markov…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Fengzhu Wu , Sili Zhang , Hao Gu , Yuexing Hao , Yuguang

Collaborative filtering-based recommender systems that rely on a single type of behavior often encounter serious sparsity issues in real-world applications, leading to unsatisfactory performance. Multi-behavior Recommendation (MBR) is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Mingshi Yan , Zhiyong Cheng , Jing Sun , Fuming Sun , Yuxin Peng

Modeling time-evolving preferences of users with their sequential item interactions, has attracted increasing attention in many online applications. Hence, sequential recommender systems have been developed to learn the dynamic user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Jian Pei

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Sequential Recommendation (SR) focuses on personalizing user experiences by predicting future preferences based on historical interactions. Transformer models, with their attention mechanisms, have become the dominant architecture in SR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuli Liu , Wenjun Kong , Cheng Luo , Weizhi Ma

Inspired by advances in LLMs, reasoning-enhanced sequential recommendation performs multi-step deliberation before making final predictions, unlocking greater potential for capturing user preferences. However, current methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yifan Shao , Peilin Zhou , Shoujin Wang , Weizhi Zhang , Xu Cai , Sunghun Kim

Generative Recommenders (GRs), exemplified by the Hierarchical Sequential Transduction Unit (HSTU), have emerged as a powerful paradigm for modeling long user interaction sequences. However, we observe that their "flat-sequence" assumption…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zerui Chen , Heng Chang , Tianying Liu , Chuantian Zhou , Yi Cao , Jiandong Ding , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

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

Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for sequential models, it showed inefficiency in computational…

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models are integral to a myriad of industrial settings, such as personalized search advertising. Current methods typically involve feature extraction from users' historical behavior sequences combined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lingwei Kong , Lu Wang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law , Jingping Shao