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cs.IR2026

Looking Farther with Confidence: Uncertainty-Guided Future Learning for Sequential Recommendation

Ziqiang Cui, Xing Tang, Peiyang Liu +4

Sequential recommendation effectively models dynamic user interests but continues to face challenges related to data sparsity. While self-supervised learning has alleviated this is…

cs.IR2026

Beyong Tokens: Item-aware Attention for LLM-based Recommendation

Xiaokun Zhang, Bowei He, Jiamin Chen +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently gained increasing attention in the field of recommendation. Existing LLM-based methods typically represent items as token sequences, and…

cs.IR2026

Retrieve-then-Adapt: Retrieval-Augmented Test-Time Adaptation for Sequential Recommendation

Xing Tang, Ziqiang Cui, Jingyang Bin +6

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 strugg…

cs.IR2025

Have We Really Understood Collaborative Information? An Empirical Investigation

Xiaokun Zhang, Zhaochun Ren, Bowei He +2

Collaborative information serves as the cornerstone of recommender systems which typically focus on capturing it from user-item interactions to deliver personalized services. Howev…

cs.IR2025

Who Stole Your Data? A Method for Detecting Unauthorized RAG Theft

Peiyang Liu, Ziqiang Cui, Di Liang +1

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by mitigating hallucinations and outdated information issues, yet simultaneously facilitates unauthorized…

cs.IR2025

Queries Are Not Alone: Clustering Text Embeddings for Video Search

Peyang Liu, Xi Wang, Ziqiang Cui +1

The rapid proliferation of video content across various platforms has highlighted the urgent need for advanced video retrieval systems. Traditional methods, which primarily depend…

cs.IR2025★ 5 cited

Shapley Value-driven Data Pruning for Recommender Systems

Yansen Zhang, Xiaokun Zhang, Ziqiang Cui +1

Recommender systems often suffer from noisy interactions like accidental clicks or popularity bias. Existing denoising methods typically identify users' intent in their interaction…

cs.IR2025

Semantic Retrieval Augmented Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation

Ziqiang Cui, Yunpeng Weng, Xing Tang +8

Contrastive learning has shown effectiveness in improving sequential recommendation models. However, existing methods still face challenges in generating high-quality contrastive p…

cs.IR2024★ 16 cited

Comprehending Knowledge Graphs with Large Language Models for Recommender Systems

Ziqiang Cui, Yunpeng Weng, Xing Tang +4

In recent years, the introduction of knowledge graphs (KGs) has significantly advanced recommender systems by facilitating the discovery of potential associations between items. Ho…

cs.IR2024★ 34 cited

Diffusion-based Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation

Ziqiang Cui, Haolun Wu, Bowei He +2

Contrastive learning has been effectively utilized to enhance the training of sequential recommendation models by leveraging informative self-supervised signals. Most existing appr…