arXiv AI

BehaveRec: When Does Long-Term Behavioral History Help Sequential Recommendation? A Study with Session, History, and Community Signals

BehaveRec is a three-signal framework that combines a causal session transformer, a bidirectional User History Encoder over a 90‑day window, and a GraphSAGE module built from behavioral embedding similarity. On an industrial dataset of 137M sequences, it improves R@5 by +3.2% over SASRec, and its advantage grows with user history length, becoming significant for users with 101+ interactions. The study also establishes a practical deployment rule of roughly 20 interactions per user for when long‑term history and behavioral‑graph signals are worthwhile.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

SequenceO1: End-to-End Ultra-Long (100K) Sequence Modeling in Recommendation with Low-Rank Caching

SequenceO1 is an end‑to‑end framework that enables ultra‑long (up to 100K interactions) sequence modeling for recommendation systems. It compresses raw user histories into a fixed‑size sketch using Sketch Attention and then models short‑term and long‑term interests with Target‑to‑History Cross Attention. The system incorporates low‑rank caching, batching, pipeline lift, and a FlashSA kernel to keep training and inference efficient, achieving consistent offline and online performance gains when deployed at full traffic on Douyin.

By Lin Guan, Jia-Qi Yang, Zhishan Zhao, Jiaqi Huang, Hangyu Wang, Longbin Li, Beichuan Zhang, Haonan Jiang, Jinan Ni, Xiangyu Fan, Xiaowen Li, Ziyao Ren, Yuhang Qi, Xiaolong Zhu, Xuanyuan Luo, Qiwei Chen, Yi Cheng, Lele Yu
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Dual-Interest Sequential Product Recommendation With Multi-Granular SSM

The paper introduces DSRec, a dual‑interest sequential recommendation model that separates item representations into long‑term and short‑term semantic contexts. Long‑term embeddings capture stable preferences through historical aggregation, while short‑term embeddings focus on local session intent modulated by inter‑click time intervals. Each branch is processed by a distinct State Space Model— a full‑sequence Mamba for long‑term modeling and a time‑modulated SSM for short‑term dynamics— and a residual cross‑fusion mechanism aligns the two granularities while preserving their independence. Experiments on public benchmarks show that DSRec outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Shuiying Liao, P. Y. Mok
arXiv AI
Aug 18

QUMem: Personalized Memory for Query-Conditioned User-State Inference in LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 16168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly use external memory systems to support personalization by drawing on long and evolving interaction histories, in which user preferences may be distributed across time, change with context, and conflict with earlier evidence.

By Heng Wang, Yifei Li, Lingling Zhang, Pengyu Li, Xinyu Che, Xinyu Zhang, Zesheng Yang
arXiv AI
3d ago

PRISM: Personalized Item Representations in User History

PRISM introduces personalized item representations in user history, allowing each item’s embedding to reflect its relationship to a specific user rather than using a shared embedding across all users. The method leverages upstream ranking computations and an autoencoder to compress user and item tower states into a single embedding per scored pair for downstream replay. Offline tests on a billion‑scale recommendation surface show a modest but measurable improvement in downstream normalized entropy, with gains scaling with sequence length according to a power‑law relationship.

By Renzhi Wu, Zikun Cui, Junjie Yang, Li Sheng, Yongjun Xie, Jerry Fu, Nipun Mathur, Sri Reddy, Hong Li
arXiv AI
Jul 21

WHALE: A Scalable Unified Model for Recommendation with Wukong-HSTU Architecture

arXiv:2607. 17017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As scalability becomes increasingly important in recommendation modeling, recent architectures have advanced the modeling of two broad sources of ranking signals along separate paths: non-sequence features, including user, item, context, and cross features; and sequence features from user behavior histories.

By Renqin Cai, Dawei Sun, Yuanjun Yao, Zhiyong Wang, Velvin Fu, Maggie Zhuang, Yu Shi, Zhongnan Fang, Xuan Cao, Jing Qian, Rui Li
arXiv AI
Oct 7

MARS: Multi-resolution Adaptive Routing for Sequential Recommendation

The paper introduces MARS, a multi‑resolution adaptive routing system for sequential recommendation that stores a user’s entire history in recurrent state tracks with different half‑lives. By sparsely routing queries to the appropriate temporal resolution, MARS preserves short‑term intent, medium‑term interests, and long‑term preferences, mitigating the temporal aliasing problem seen in monolithic cached memories. Experiments on three public datasets show that MARS outperforms strong baselines, with larger gains for longer histories and after user behavioral shifts, while maintaining comparable serving latency.

By Ming Yin, Sixun Dong, Yudong Liu, Wen-Yun Yang, Yunjiang Jiang, Yiran Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Behavioral Fingerprinting and Navigation Prediction in Web Browsing

The study examines two behavioral inference tasks—session-level user identification and next-domain prediction—using large-scale anonymous web browsing traces. Classical and neural models are applied to user identification, while graph-based methods combined with Large Language Models (LLMs) are used for next-domain prediction. Results show that short browsing sessions are highly identifiable and future navigation is highly predictable, with LLM-derived semantic features offering only marginal improvements over structural and sequential models.

By Ralph Elsaghbini, Omran Berjawi, Walid Fahs, Rida Khatoun