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most citedgSASRec: Reducing Overconfidence in Sequential Recommendation Trained with Negative Sampling

46 citations · 86 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.IR2026

Hypothesis-Driven Shelf Generation for Personalised Recommendation

Aleksandr V. Petrov, Tarun Chillara, Matthew D. Moellman +13

Modern recommendation interfaces organise content into shelves: themed rows such as "More of What You Like" or "New Releases for You." In production systems, these shelves are typi…

cs.IR2026

URecJPQ: Memory-efficient Multimodal Recommendation Models through RecJPQ in Large-Scale Scenarios

Giuseppe Spillo, Zixuan Yi, Aleksandr Petrov +3

Training state-of-the-art recommendation models on large-scale industrial datasets can be a challenging task due to the high number of users and items which are typically represent…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

eSASRec: Enhancing Transformer-based Recommendations in a Modular Fashion

Daria Tikhonovich, Nikita Zelinskiy, Aleksandr V. Petrov +4

Since their introduction, Transformer-based models, such as SASRec and BERT4Rec, have become common baselines for sequential recommendations, surpassing earlier neural and non-neur…

cs.IR2025

Balancing Accuracy and Novelty with Sub-Item Popularity

Chiara Mallamaci, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Petrov, Alberto Carlo Maria Mancino +3

In the realm of music recommendation, sequential recommenders have shown promise in capturing the dynamic nature of music consumption. A key characteristic of this domain is repeti…

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

Efficient Recommendation with Millions of Items by Dynamic Pruning of Sub-Item Embeddings

Aleksandr V. Petrov, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto

A large item catalogue is a major challenge for deploying modern sequential recommender models, since it makes the memory footprint of the model large and increases inference laten…

cs.IR2024★ 8 cited

Enhancing Sequential Music Recommendation with Personalized Popularity Awareness

Davide Abbattista, Vito Walter Anelli, Tommaso Di Noia +2

In the realm of music recommendation, sequential recommender systems have shown promise in capturing the dynamic nature of music consumption. Nevertheless, traditional Transformer-…

cs.IR2024★ 2 cited

Efficient Inference of Sub-Item Id-based Sequential Recommendation Models with Millions of Items

Aleksandr V. Petrov, Craig Macdonald, Nicola Tonellotto

Transformer-based recommender systems, such as BERT4Rec or SASRec, achieve state-of-the-art results in sequential recommendation. However, it is challenging to use these models in…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Shallow Cross-Encoders for Low-Latency Retrieval

Aleksandr V. Petrov, Sean MacAvaney, Craig Macdonald

Transformer-based Cross-Encoders achieve state-of-the-art effectiveness in text retrieval. However, Cross-Encoders based on large transformer models (such as BERT or T5) are comput…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Aligning GPTRec with Beyond-Accuracy Goals with Reinforcement Learning

Aleksandr Petrov, Craig Macdonald

Adaptations of Transformer models, such as BERT4Rec and SASRec, achieve state-of-the-art performance in the sequential recommendation task according to accuracy-based metrics, such…

cs.IR2023★ 12 cited

RecJPQ: Training Large-Catalogue Sequential Recommenders

Aleksandr V. Petrov, Craig Macdonald

Sequential Recommendation is a popular recommendation task that uses the order of user-item interaction to model evolving users' interests and sequential patterns in their behaviou…

cs.IR2023★ 46 cited

gSASRec: Reducing Overconfidence in Sequential Recommendation Trained with Negative Sampling

Aleksandr Petrov, Craig Macdonald

A large catalogue size is one of the central challenges in training recommendation models: a large number of items makes them memory and computationally inefficient to compute scor…

cs.IR2023★ 9 cited

Generative Sequential Recommendation with GPTRec

Aleksandr V. Petrov, Craig Macdonald

Sequential recommendation is an important recommendation task that aims to predict the next item in a sequence. Recently, adaptations of language models, particularly Transformer-b…

cs.IR2022

MTS Kion Implicit Contextualised Sequential Dataset for Movie Recommendation

Aleksandr Petrov, Ildar Safilo, Daria Tikhonovich +1

We present a new movie and TV show recommendation dataset collected from the real users of MTS Kion video-on-demand platform. In contrast to other popular movie recommendation data…

cs.IR2022★ 2 cited

A Systematic Review and Replicability Study of BERT4Rec for Sequential Recommendation

Aleksandr Petrov, Craig Macdonald

BERT4Rec is an effective model for sequential recommendation based on the Transformer architecture. In the original publication, BERT4Rec claimed superiority over other available s…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Effective and Efficient Training for Sequential Recommendation using Recency Sampling

Aleksandr Petrov, Craig Macdonald

Many modern sequential recommender systems use deep neural networks, which can effectively estimate the relevance of items but require a lot of time to train. Slow training increas…