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Spatio-Temporal Intent Modeling for Sequential Recommendation

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Huayi Shen
周魏 (Wei Zhou)
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Fengji Luo
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Xuhan Zhou
J
Jun Zeng
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Junhao Wen
DOI:10.1109/TSC.2025.3620442delete
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Abstract

Abstract

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Users’ behaviors on recommendation platforms are typically driven by evolving intentions. Existing sequential recommendation models have two main limitations in capturing these intentions: insufficient modeling of higher-order relationships between prefix sequences and target items, and lack of effective mechanisms for capturing complex temporal dependencies. To address these challenges, we propose a Spatio-Temporal Intent Modeling framework (STIRec) that enhances recommendations through spatial and temporal dimensions. Our key innovations include: (1) a Multi-Hop Intent Aggregation mechanism that constructs a Spatial Intent Graph modeling three types of relationships (prefix-target, prefix-prefix, target-target), capturing common intent patterns through graph neural networks from a global perspective; (2) a Multi-Span Self-Attention module that fuses long and short-term query information to comprehensively model user behaviors and evolving intentions across temporal dimensions. These complementary mechanisms work together to understand user intent better, integrating global contextual patterns and temporal evolution dynamics. Experiments on five public datasets show that STIRec outperforms state-of-the-art methods by an average of 9.78% in recommendation accuracy, with enhanced robustness against noisy data.
Keywords:
Sequential recommendation
user intent modeling
self-attention mechanism
graph neural networks

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IEEE Transactions on Services Computing cover
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing
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5.8
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2.1K
Citations:
6.5K

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Chongqing University
Scholars:
5.1W
Papers: 4.1W
Citations: 6.0W
U
University of Sydney
Scholars:
6.5W
Papers: 6.2W
Citations: 90