Efficient Sequential Recommendation for Long Term User Interest Via Personalization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03479v1
• Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:15:44 GMT
• Title: Efficient Sequential Recommendation for Long Term User Interest Via Personalization
• Authors: Qiang Zhang, Hanchao Yu, Ivan Ji, Chen Yuan, Yi Zhang, Chihuang Liu, Xiaolong Wang, Christopher E. Lambert, Ren Chen, Chen Kovacs, Xinzhu Bei, Renqin Cai, Rui Li, Lizhu Zhang, Xiangjun Fan, Qunshu Zhang, Benyu Zhang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel approach to sequential recommendation that leverages personalization techniques to enhance efficiency and performance.<n>Our method significantly reduces computational costs while maintaining high recommendation accuracy.<n>Our method could be applied to existing transformer based recommendation models, e.g., HSTU and HLLM.
• Score: 18.326002279321575
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for sequential models, it showed inefficiency in computational capacity when considering real-world applications like recommendation, due to the non-linear(quadratic) increasing nature of the transformer model. To improve the efficiency of the sequential model, we introduced a novel approach to sequential recommendation that leverages personalization techniques to enhance efficiency and performance. Our method compresses long user interaction histories into learnable tokens, which are then combined with recent interactions to generate recommendations. This approach significantly reduces computational costs while maintaining high recommendation accuracy. Our method could be applied to existing transformer based recommendation models, e.g., HSTU and HLLM. Extensive experiments on multiple sequential models demonstrate its versatility and effectiveness. Source code is available at \href{https://github.com/facebookresearch/PerSRec}{https://github.com/facebookresearch/PerSRec}.

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