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Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims at predicting the next item for an ongoing anonymous session. The major challenge of SBR is how to capture richer relations in between items and learn ID-based item embeddings to capture such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Zizhuo Zhang , Bang Wang

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

Recommender system usually suffers from severe popularity bias -- the collected interaction data usually exhibits quite imbalanced or even long-tailed distribution over items. Such skewed distribution may result from the users' conformity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Zihao Zhao , Jiawei Chen , Sheng Zhou , Xiangnan He , Xuezhi Cao , Fuzheng Zhang , Wei Wu

Repurchase behavior is a primary signal in large-scale retail recommendation, particularly in categories with frequent replenishment: many items in a user's next basket were previously purchased, and their timing follows stable,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yanan Cao , Ashish Ranjan , Sinduja Subramaniam , Evren Korpeoglu , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is a challenging task, which aims at recommending items based on anonymous behavior sequences. Almost all the existing solutions for SBR model user preference only based on the current session without…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ziyang Wang , Wei Wei , Gao Cong , Xiao-Li Li , Xian-Ling Mao , Minghui Qiu

Sequential recommendation techniques provide users with product recommendations fitting their current preferences by handling dynamic user preferences over time. Previous studies have focused on modeling sequential dynamics without much…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Seongwon Jang , Hoyeop Lee , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

Recent recommender systems have started to employ knowledge distillation, which is a model compression technique distilling knowledge from a cumbersome model (teacher) to a compact model (student), to reduce inference latency while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 SeongKu Kang , Junyoung Hwang , Wonbin Kweon , Hwanjo Yu

Next-basket recommendation considers the problem of recommending a set of items into the next basket that users will purchase as a whole. In this paper, we develop a novel mixed model with preferences, popularities and transitions (M2) for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Bo Peng , Zhiyun Ren , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

Bundle recommendation aims to suggest a set of interconnected items to users. However, diverse interaction types and sparse interaction matrices often pose challenges for previous approaches in accurately predicting user-bundle adoptions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tuan-Nghia Bui , Huy-Son Nguyen , Cam-Van Nguyen Thi , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le

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

Incorporating item content information into click-through rate (CTR) prediction models remains a challenge, especially with the time and space constraints of industrial scenarios. The content-encoding paradigm, which integrates user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Qijiong Liu , Hengchang Hu , Jiahao Wu , Jieming Zhu , Min-Yen Kan , Xiao-Ming Wu

Lifelong user behavior sequences are crucial for capturing user interests and predicting user responses in modern recommendation systems. A two-stage paradigm is typically adopted to handle these long sequences: a subset of relevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ningya Feng , Junwei Pan , Jialong Wu , Baixu Chen , Ximei Wang , Qian Li , Xian Hu , Jie Jiang , Mingsheng Long

We consider the problem of recommending relevant content to users of an internet platform in the form of lists of items, called slates. We introduce a variational Bayesian Recurrent Neural Net recommender system that acts on time series of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-03 Simen Eide , David S. Leslie , Arnoldo Frigessi

Understanding temporal dynamics has proved to be highly valuable for accurate recommendation. Sequential recommenders have been successful in modeling the dynamics of users and items over time. However, while different model architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-25 Jiaxi Tang , Francois Belletti , Sagar Jain , Minmin Chen , Alex Beutel , Can Xu , Ed H. Chi

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

The sequential recommendation (SR) task aims to predict the next item based on users' historical interaction sequences. Typically trained on historical data, SR models often struggle to adapt to real-time preference shifts during inference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xing Tang , Jingyang Bin , Ziqiang Cui , Xiaokun Zhang , Fuyuan Lyu , Jingyan Jiang , Dugang Liu , Chen Ma , Xiuqiang He

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item which interests users via modeling their interest in items over time. Most of the existing works on sequential recommendation model users' dynamic interest in specific items while…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Chengkai Huang , Shoujin Wang , Xianzhi Wang , Lina Yao

Predicting a user's preference in a short anonymous interaction session instead of long-term history is a challenging problem in the real-life session-based recommendation, e.g., e-commerce and media stream. Recent research of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ruihong Qiu , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, crucial in applications like recommender systems and online advertising, involves ranking items based on the likelihood of user clicks. User behavior sequence modeling has marked progress in CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hengyu Zhang , Chang Meng , Wei Guo , Huifeng Guo , Jieming Zhu , Guangpeng Zhao , Ruiming Tang , Xiu Li

Session-based recommendation (SBR) is proposed to recommend items within short sessions given that user profiles are invisible in various scenarios nowadays, such as e-commerce and short video recommendation. There is a common scenario that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Chuan Cui , Qi Shen , Shixuan Zhu , Yitong Pang , Yiming Zhang , Hanning Gao , Zhihua Wei