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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

Capturing the temporal dynamics of user preferences over items is important for recommendation. Existing methods mainly assume that all time steps in user-item interaction history are equally relevant to recommendation, which however does…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Wenjie Pei , Jie Yang , Zhu Sun , Jie Zhang , Alessandro Bozzon , David M. J. Tax

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

Session-based Recommendation (SBR) refers to the task of predicting the next item based on short-term user behaviors within an anonymous session. However, session embedding learned by a non-linear encoder is usually not in the same…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Yupeng Hou , Binbin Hu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Wayne Xin Zhao

Repeat consumption, such as repurchasing items and relistening songs, is a common scenario in daily life. To model repeat consumption, the repeat-aware recommendation has been proposed to predict which item will be re-interacted based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Shigang Quan , Shui Liu , Zhenzhe Zheng , Fan Wu

Sequential recommendation has been a widely popular topic of recommender systems. Existing works have contributed to enhancing the prediction ability of sequential recommendation systems based on various methods, such as recurrent networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Yunyi Li , Pengpeng Zhao , Guanfeng Liu , Yanchi Liu , Victor S. Sheng , Jiajie Xu , Xiaofang Zhou

Sequential Recommendation aims to recommend items that a target user will interact with in the near future based on the historically interacted items. While modeling temporal dynamics is crucial for sequential recommendation, most of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Zeyuan Chen , Wei Zhang , Junchi Yan , Gang Wang , Jianyong Wang

Recommender systems play an important role in helping people find information and make decisions in today's increasingly digitalized societies. However, the wide adoption of such machine learning applications also causes concerns in terms…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Benjamin Longxiang Wang , Sebastian Schelter

Recommender systems learn from past user behavior to predict future user preferences. Intuitively, it has been established that the most recent interactions are more indicative of future preferences than older interactions. Many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Joey De Pauw , Bart Goethals

Recent research has achieved impressive progress in the session-based recommendation. However, information such as item knowledge and click time interval, which could be potentially utilized to improve the performance, remains largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Rongzhi Zhang , Yulong Gu , Xiaoyu Shen , Hui Su

Recommendation systems aim to assist users to discover most preferred contents from an ever-growing corpus of items. Although recommenders have been greatly improved by deep learning, they still faces several challenges: (1) Behaviors are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Wendi Ji , Keqiang Wang , Xiaoling Wang , TingWei Chen , Alexandra Cristea

Effective user modeling requires distinguishing between short-term and long-term preference evolution. While item embeddings have become a key component of recommender systems, standard approaches like Item2Vec treat user histories as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Rafael T. Sereicikas , Pedro R. Pires , Gregorio F. Azevedo , Tiago A. Almeida

The personalized recommendation is an essential part of modern e-commerce, where user's demands are not only conditioned by their profile but also by their recent browsing behaviors as well as periodical purchases made some time ago. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiarui Jin , Xianyu Chen , Weinan Zhang , Junjie Huang , Ziming Feng , Yong Yu

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, whose aim is to predict the probability of whether a user will click on an item, is an essential task for many online applications. Due to the nature of data sparsity and high dimensionality of CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yichen Xu , Yanqiao Zhu , Feng Yu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu

A transaction-based recommender system (TBRS) aims to predict the next item by modeling dependencies in transactional data. Generally, two kinds of dependencies considered are intra-transaction dependency and inter-transaction dependency.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Shoujin Wang , Longbing Cao , Liang Hu , Shlomo Berkovsky , Xiaoshui Huang , Lin Xiao , Wenpeng Lu

In sequential recommendation (SR), neural models have been actively explored due to their remarkable performance, but they suffer from inefficiency inherent to their complexity. On the other hand, linear SR models exhibit high efficiency…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Seongmin Park , Mincheol Yoon , Minjin Choi , Jongwuk Lee

Recommender systems often rely on observational user--item interaction data, which is prone to selection bias due to users' selective interactions with items. Inverse propensity weighting and doubly robust estimators effectively mitigate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zongyu Li , Wanting Su , Tianyu Xia

Deep learning-based sequential recommender systems have recently attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. Most of industrial Embedding-Based Retrieval (EBR) system for recommendation share the similar ideas with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Fuyu Lv , Mengxue Li , Tonglei Guo , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Taiwei Jin , Wilfred Ng

In several practical applications, particularly healthcare, clinical data of each patient is individually recorded in a database at irregular intervals as required. This causes a sparse and irregularly sampled time series, which makes it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mincheol Kim , Soo-Yong Shin

Session-based recommendations which predict the next action by understanding a user's interaction behavior with items within a relatively short ongoing session have recently gained increasing popularity. Previous research has focused on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Eunkyu Oh , Taehun Kim