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title = "Cross-user Collaborative and Sequential Modeling for Recommendation",
author = "He, Qiao-Ying and
Chen, Yi-En and
Chen, Kuan-Yu",
editor = "Chang, Kai-Wei and
Lu, Ke-Han and
Yang, Chih-Kai and
Tam, Zhi-Rui and
Chang, Wen-Yu and
Wang, Chung-Che",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025)",
month = nov,
year = "2025",
address = "National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.rocling-main.24/",
pages = "230--236",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-379-1",
abstract = "Multi-behavior recommendation leverages auxiliary behaviors to effectively alleviate the sparsity of target behaviors. Existing approaches can be broadly categorized into two paradigms: sequential models that capture individual temporal dynamics but often omit cross-user information, and graph-based models that mine collaborative patterns yet lack temporal dependency modeling. To address these limitations, this paper proposes an integrated approach that combines sequential and graph modeling: the former focuses on learning temporal dependencies within user behavior sequences, while the latter captures cross-user behavior paths. By fusing the predictions from both components, the method achieves more accurate recommendations. Experiments on two e-commerce datasets, Taobao and RetailRocket, show that the integrated model outperforms the strong baseline MB-STR by about 1{\%} in both HR@10 and NDCG@10. These results indicate that incorporating cross-user collaborative information consistently improves performance, even on top of strong sequential models."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Cross-user Collaborative and Sequential Modeling for Recommendation
%A He, Qiao-Ying
%A Chen, Yi-En
%A Chen, Kuan-Yu
%Y Chang, Kai-Wei
%Y Lu, Ke-Han
%Y Yang, Chih-Kai
%Y Tam, Zhi-Rui
%Y Chang, Wen-Yu
%Y Wang, Chung-Che
%S Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025)
%D 2025
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
%@ 979-8-89176-379-1
%F he-etal-2025-cross
%X Multi-behavior recommendation leverages auxiliary behaviors to effectively alleviate the sparsity of target behaviors. Existing approaches can be broadly categorized into two paradigms: sequential models that capture individual temporal dynamics but often omit cross-user information, and graph-based models that mine collaborative patterns yet lack temporal dependency modeling. To address these limitations, this paper proposes an integrated approach that combines sequential and graph modeling: the former focuses on learning temporal dependencies within user behavior sequences, while the latter captures cross-user behavior paths. By fusing the predictions from both components, the method achieves more accurate recommendations. Experiments on two e-commerce datasets, Taobao and RetailRocket, show that the integrated model outperforms the strong baseline MB-STR by about 1% in both HR@10 and NDCG@10. These results indicate that incorporating cross-user collaborative information consistently improves performance, even on top of strong sequential models.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.rocling-main.24/
%P 230-236
Markdown (Informal)
[Cross-user Collaborative and Sequential Modeling for Recommendation](https://aclanthology.org/2025.rocling-main.24/) (He et al., ROCLING 2025)
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