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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,825 Views
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24 April 2024

In recent years, sequential recommendation systems have become a hot topic in the field of recommendation system research. These systems predict future user actions or preferences by analyzing their historical interaction sequences, such as browsing...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
10,355 Views
38 Pages

Sequential Recommendation System Based on Deep Learning: A Survey

  • Peiyang Wei,
  • Hongping Shu,
  • Jianhong Gan,
  • Xun Deng and ,
  • Yi Liu,
  • Wenying Sun,
  • Tinghui Chen,
  • Can Hu,
  • Zhenzhen Hu and
  • Zhibin Li
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

With the rapid development of deep learning in artificial intelligence, sequential recommendation systems play an increasingly important role in e-commerce, social media, digital entertainment, and other fields. This work systematically reviews the r...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,234 Views
21 Pages

DACSR: Decoupled-Aggregated End-to-End Calibrated Sequential Recommendation

  • Jiayi Chen,
  • Wen Wu,
  • Liye Shi,
  • Yu Ji and ,
  • Wenxin Hu,
  • Xi Chen,
  • Wei Zheng and
  • Liang He
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

19 November 2022

Sequential recommendations have made great strides in accurately predicting the future behavior of users. However, seeking accuracy alone may bring side effects such as unfair and overspecialized recommendation results. In this work, we focus on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,015 Views
14 Pages

8 June 2024

Sequential recommender models should capture evolving user preferences over time, but there is a risk of obtaining biased results such as false positives and false negatives due to noisy interactions. Generative models effectively learn the underlyin...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,068 Views
28 Pages

3 October 2023

E-commerce recommendation systems usually deal with massive customer sequential databases, such as historical purchase or click stream sequences. Recommendation systems’ accuracy can be improved if complex sequential patterns of user purchase b...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Algorithms for Intelligent Recommendation Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,900 Views
15 Pages

11 October 2023

Providing interpretable explanations can notably enhance users’ confidence and satisfaction with regard to recommender systems. Counterfactual explanations demonstrate remarkable performance in the realm of explainable sequential recommendation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recommender Systems and Their Advanced Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,401 Views
23 Pages

GAT4Rec: Sequential Recommendation with a Gated Recurrent Unit and Transformers

  • Huaiwen He,
  • Xiangdong Yang,
  • Feng Huang,
  • Feng Yi and
  • Shangsong Liang

12 July 2024

Capturing long-term dependency from historical behaviors is the key to the success of sequential recommendation; however, existing methods focus on extracting global sequential information while neglecting to obtain deep representations from subseque...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,478 Views
16 Pages

5 September 2023

Modeling the dynamic preferences of users is a challenging and essential task in a recommendation system. Taking inspiration from the successful use of self-attention mechanisms in tasks within natural language processing, several approaches have ini...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,654 Views
17 Pages

Multi-behavior sequential recommendation (MBSRec) is a form of sequential recommendation. It leverages users’ historical interaction behavior types to better predict their next actions. This approach fits real-world scenarios better than tradit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
9,718 Views
14 Pages

8 August 2020

With the rapid increase in the popularity of big data and internet technology, sequential recommendation has become an important method to help people find items they are potentially interested in. Traditional recommendation methods use only recurren...

(This article belongs to the Collection Knowledge Graphs for Search and Recommendation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,258 Views
32 Pages

LLM-RS: A Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation with Reasoning

  • Ahmed M. Gadallah,
  • Hesham A. Hefny,
  • Mohammed E. Almandouh,
  • Miled Tezeghdanti and
  • Noaman M. Ali

20 July 2026

Traditional sequential recommender systems have primarily relied on implicit pattern recognition in user interaction sequences, achieving strong performance but functioning as “black boxes” that lack transparent reasoning. This paper intr...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,319 Views
24 Pages

Temporal-Aware and Intent Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation

  • Yuan Zhang,
  • Yaqin Fan,
  • Tiantian Sheng and
  • Aoshuang Wang

2 October 2025

In recent years, research in sequential recommendation has primarily refined user intent by constructing sequence-level contrastive learning tasks through data augmentation or by extracting preference information from the latent space of user behavio...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,770 Views
17 Pages

As the e-commerce industry rapidly expands, the number of users and items continues to grow, making it increasingly difficult to capture users’ purchasing patterns. Sequential recommendation models have emerged to address this issue by predicti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven AI Approaches with Applications in Social Network, Media Analytics and Smart Cities)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,135 Views
12 Pages

Graph Neural Network-Guided Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation

  • Xing-Yao Yang,
  • Feng Xu,
  • Jiong Yu,
  • Zi-Yang Li and
  • Dong-Xiao Wang

14 June 2023

Sequential recommendation uses contrastive learning to randomly augment user sequences and alleviate the data sparsity problem. However, there is no guarantee that the augmented positive or negative views remain semantically similar. To address this...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
307 Views
32 Pages

31 August 2026

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item from a user’s past interaction sequence, and has largely advanced around how accurately the ground-truth item is ranked. In practice, however, a recommendation list influences subsequent u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,556 Views
28 Pages

23 May 2025

The aim of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user’s next interaction by analyzing their historical behavioral sequences. The proposed framework leverages the inherent symmetry in user behavior patterns, where temporal and spectral...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Intelligent Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,528 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Process Recommendation Method That Integrates Disjoint Paths and Sequential Patterns

  • Danni Han,
  • Chaoxue Wang,
  • Genqing Bian,
  • Bilin Shao and
  • Tengteng Shi

19 March 2023

As the primary means of modern enterprise management, business process management (BPM) technology has become the mainstream development trend of modern enterprise management. The efficient and accurate establishment of business processes is essentia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Digital Technology Assisted Industrial Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,121 Views
25 Pages

Semantic–Sequential Educational Recommendation with Collaborative Enhancement and Parameter-Efficient Language Model Adaptation

  • Hajar Majjate,
  • Youssra Bellarhmouch,
  • Adil Jeghal,
  • Ali Yahyaouy and ,
  • Loubna Laaouina,
  • Hamid Tairi and
  • Khalid Alaoui Zidani
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The rapid evolution of online learning environments has generated diverse and complex data ecosystems. Recommender systems play a central role in leveraging such heterogeneous data to support personalised learning experiences. However, many deep lear...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI Trends in Teacher and Student Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,323 Views
17 Pages

Sequential recommendation systems face challenges in integrating local sequential patterns with global collaborative information. While Transformers capture long-term dependencies through self-attention, they suffer from quadratic complexity. State-s...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,031 Views
23 Pages

21 September 2025

In recent years, the remarkable versatility of large language models (LLMs) has spurred considerable interest in leveraging their capabilities for recommendation systems. Critically, we argue that the intrinsic aptitude of LLMs for modeling sequentia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI and Machine Learning in the Big Data Era: Advanced Algorithms and Real-World Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,321 Views
24 Pages

9 December 2025

Sequential recommendation aims to model evolving user preferences based on historical interactions. Transformer-based architectures have achieved strong performance by focusing on user-level sequential patterns, yet global item–item relationshi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
365 Views
28 Pages

Multimodal Sequential recommendation alleviates the semantic insufficiency and data sparsity of item-ID-based models by incorporating side information such as text and images. However, multimodal systems face the dual challenges of feature-space hete...

(This article belongs to the Section Artificial Intelligence and Multi-Agent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,268 Views
18 Pages

16 September 2024

Sequential recommendations aim to predict users’ next interactions by modeling their interaction sequences. Most existing work concentrates on user preferences within these sequences, overlooking the complex item relationships across sequences....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Network Analysis and Data Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,064 Views
16 Pages

Sequential Recommendation through Graph Neural Networks and Transformer Encoder with Degree Encoding

  • Shuli Wang,
  • Xuewen Li,
  • Xiaomeng Kou,
  • Jin Zhang and ,
  • Shaojie Zheng,
  • Jinlong Wang and
  • Jibing Gong
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2021

Predicting users’ next behavior through learning users’ preferences according to the users’ historical behaviors is known as sequential recommendation. In this task, learning sequence representation by modeling the pairwise relationship between items...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Sequential Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
365 Views
37 Pages

24 September 2026

Sequential recommendation must infer evolving preferences from interaction histories that are sparse, temporally irregular, and heterogeneous in relevance. Existing diffusion-based recommenders improve representation generation and recovery, yet thei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Mining and Recommender Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
901 Views
20 Pages

10 February 2026

Personalized recommender systems play an essential role in enhancing user experience by accurately predicting user preferences. Previous approaches mainly focus on modeling long-term preferences or capturing short-term dynamics through sequential pat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine/Deep Learning Applications and Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
30 Pages

Training sequential recommenders for interaction-disjoint target domains is challenging: no target interaction data are available for training, model selection, or calibration. Semantic item representations support transfer across non-overlapping cat...

(This article belongs to the Section Data Mining and Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,672 Views
13 Pages

Attribute-Aware Graph Aggregation for Sequential Recommendation

  • Yiming Qu,
  • Yang Fang,
  • Zhen Tan and
  • Weidong Xiao

24 April 2025

In this paper, we address the challenge of dynamic evolution of user preferences and propose an attribute-sequence-based recommendation model to improve the accuracy and interpretability of recommendation systems. Traditional approaches usually rely...

(This article belongs to the Section E1: Mathematics and Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,222 Views
14 Pages

Sequential Recommendations on GitHub Repository

  • JaeWon Kim,
  • JeongA Wi and
  • YoungBin Kim

10 February 2021

The software development platform is an increasingly expanding industry. It is growing steadily due to the active research and sharing of artificial intelligence and deep learning. Further, predicting users’ propensity in this huge community and reco...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Artificial Intelligence for Recommender Systems and Collaborative Filtering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,494 Views
21 Pages

Generative recommendation systems based on Large Language Models leverage their reasoning capabilities to capture users’ latent interests. However, aligning continuous user behavioral embeddings with the discrete semantic space of LLMs remains...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multimodal Deep Learning and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,594 Views
22 Pages

Personalized itinerary recommendations are essential as many people choose traveling as their primary leisure pursuit. Unlike model-based and optimization-based methods, sequential-pattern-mining-based methods, which are based on the users’ pre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Data Mining in Social Media)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,189 Views
18 Pages

29 September 2025

Recommender systems are data-driven tools designed to assist or automate users’ decision-making. With the growing demand of personalized sequential recommendations in business intelligence or e-commerce, effectively capturing temporal informati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Insights with Predictive Marketing Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,052 Views
14 Pages

Deep Bi-LSTM Networks for Sequential Recommendation

  • Chuanchuan Zhao,
  • Jinguo You,
  • Xinxian Wen and
  • Xiaowu Li

7 August 2020

Recent years have seen a surge in approaches that combine deep learning and recommendation systems to capture user preference or item interaction evolution over time. However, the most related work only consider the sequential similarity between the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,726 Views
16 Pages

Point of interest (POI) recommendation as an important service in location-based social networks has developed rapidly, which can help users find more interesting unknown locations and facilitate service providers to provide users with more accurate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,865 Views
15 Pages

Sequential Recommendations on Board-Game Platforms

  • JaeWon Kim,
  • JeongA Wi,
  • SooJin Jang and
  • YoungBin Kim

2 February 2020

The game market is an increasingly large industry. The board-game market, which is the most traditional in the game market, continues to show a steady growth. It is very important for both publishers and players to predict the propensity of users in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,536 Views
20 Pages

With the widespread use of the location-based social networks (LBSNs), the next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation has become an essential service, which aims to understand the user’s check-in behavior at the current moment by analyzing and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,875 Views
12 Pages

Auxiliary Information-Enhanced Recommendations

  • Shoujin Wang,
  • Wanggen Wan,
  • Tong Qu and
  • Yanqiu Dong

23 September 2021

Sequential recommendations have attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. They predict a given user’s next choice of items by mainly modeling the sequential relations over a sequence of the user’s interactions wi...

(This article belongs to the Topic Machine and Deep Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,985 Views
20 Pages

11 April 2025

User interaction behavior is influenced by various intentions, which are often asymmetric. Incorporating intention information into sequential recommendation can significantly improve recommendation performance. However, most existing intention model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry and Asymmetry in Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,156 Views
22 Pages

13 December 2021

In recent movie recommendations, one of the most important issues is to predict the user’s sequential behavior to be able to suggest the next movie to watch. However, capturing such sequential behavior is not easy because each user’s shor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,638 Views
20 Pages

In view of the problem that the recommendation system is not good at integrating multi-source information and user sentiment, this paper proposes a BERT-LSTM Dual-Tower Recommendation Method for Sequential Feature Extraction (BLDRM-SFE). This method...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
404 Views
23 Pages

13 August 2026

Accurately modeling learners’ course preferences is a key task in Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) recommendation. Existing sequential recommendation methods can capture recent changes in learners’ interests but have limited ability to e...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,278 Views
22 Pages

29 October 2021

Market basket prediction, which is the basis of product recommendation systems, is the concept of predicting what customers will buy in the next shopping basket based on analysis of their historical shopping records. Although product recommendation s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,481 Views
11 Pages

23 May 2023

This study employs sequential pattern mining to analyze browsing behaviors and aid mobile app service providers in effectively promoting and recommending new products. We collected browsing history data from 66,004 mobile app users for new car info i...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,676 Views
16 Pages

Mitigating Distribution Shift in Offline RL-Based Recommender Systems with a Q-Learning Regularization Decision Transformer

  • Yu Zhou,
  • Xinyu Guo,
  • Yuanbo Jiang,
  • Jiaxuan Fang and ,
  • Jin-Qiang Wang,
  • Peng Zhi,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Rui Zhou,
  • Ling-Huey Li and
  • Kuan-Ching Li
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

13 April 2026

Optimizing long-term user satisfaction in sequential recommender systems is a critical challenge. Offline reinforcement learning (RL) offers a promising solution by learning recommendation policies from historical interaction logs without incurring t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition of Modern Recommender Systems: Approaches, Challenges and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,878 Views
24 Pages

26 March 2024

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a crucial role in online services and applications, such as online shopping and advertising. The performance of CTR prediction can have a direct impact on user experience and the revenue of the online platfor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
366 Views
25 Pages

Multimodal Interest-Shifting Sequence Recommendation with Offline Policy Optimization and Drift-Aware Representation Learning

  • Changcheng Shao,
  • Cheng Zeng,
  • Xiaogang Ye,
  • Lili Chen and ,
  • Qianyu Zou,
  • Zhouqiang Qiu,
  • Yunhua Chen,
  • Pinghua Chen and
  • Hongsong Zheng
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

31 August 2026

Interest changes complicate sequential recommendation when interaction histories are combined with item content. We evaluate MM-DRLSR on four public Amazon and Yelp benchmarks. The model integrates category-overlap drift supervision, history-derived...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,017 Views
17 Pages

12 November 2025

Sequential recommendations seek to predict the next item a user will interact with by modeling historical behavior, yet most approaches emphasize either temporal dynamics or item relationships and thus miss how structural co-intents interact with dyn...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,106 Views
12 Pages

16 November 2024

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation provides users with location suggestions that they may be interested in, allowing them to explore their surroundings. Existing sequence-based or graph-based POI recommendation methods have matured in captur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,935 Views
21 Pages

GSRec: A Graph-Sequence Recommendation System Based on Reverse-Order Graph and User Embedding

  • Xulin Ma,
  • Jiajia Tan,
  • Linan Zhu,
  • Xiaoran Yan and
  • Xiangjie Kong

4 January 2024

At present, sequence-based models have various applications in recommendation systems; these models recommend the interested items of the user according to the user’s behavioral sequence. However, sequence-based models have a limitation of leng...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Network Analysis and Data Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,330 Views
16 Pages

In recent years, mining user multi-behavior information for prediction has become a hot topic in recommendation systems. Usually, researchers only use graph networks to capture the relationship between multiple types of user-interaction information a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Machine Learning Applications in Big Data Analytics)

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