XLNet4Rec: Transformer-Based Recommendations Using Users' Long-Term and Short-Term Interests (ICMLA 2023)
This post is an index entry from a Sequential Recommendation reading list on zhichai.net. It catalogs the paper "XLNet4Rec: Recommendations Based on Users' Long-Term and Short-Term Interests Using Transformer", published at ICMLA 2023.
Key points
- Paper: XLNet4Rec applies a Transformer-based approach to recommendation, explicitly modeling the combination of a user's long-term interests and short-term interests.
- Venue: ICMLA 2023 (International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications); the paper is available via IEEE Xplore: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10460010
- Category: Sequential Recommendation.
- BERT4Rec: Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Encoder Representations
- EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration
- Efficient On-Device Session-Based Recommendation (ACM TORS)
- How to Index Item IDs for Recommendation Foundation Models (P5, SIGIR)
- LLMCDSR: Enhancing Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models
- Mamba4Rec: Towards Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Selective State Space Models
- Original paper: IEEE Xplore record
- Companion entries in the same Sequential Recommendation section (see list above)
Context in the reading list
The entry is cross-referenced with related sequential-recommendation works, including:
Editorial notes
The forum post is a templated summary built from metadata rather than a detailed review. Its broader commentary discusses general themes in modern search/recommendation systems — retrieval-rerank-generation pipelines, LLM-era system design, latency and cost constraints, evaluation reliability, and safety — but it does not reproduce the paper's specific architecture, training procedure, datasets, or experimental numbers. Readers interested in quantitative results should consult the original IEEE publication directly.
Related resources
Suggested reading approach
1. Researchers: verify the paper's experimental protocol, baselines, and reported metrics against the original PDF before citing numbers. 2. Engineers: evaluate how a dual-interest (long-term + short-term) Transformer encoder could integrate with existing retrieval and ranking stacks. 3. Product teams: consider whether user-perceivable gains (relevance, personalization consistency) justify the added modeling complexity.