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Divergence Meets Consensus: A Multi-Source Negative Sampling Framework for Sequential Recommendation

sigir26-031 · Full research paper · Yuanzi Li, Lingjie Wang, Jingyu Zhao, Zihang Tian, Yuhan Wang, Lei Wang, Xu Chen
Sequential Recommendation with User · 100%
Abstract

Negative sampling is significant for training sequential recommendation models under implicit feedback. The predominant strategy, self-guided hard negative sampling, selects negatives based on the model's current state but suffers from three limitations: (1) the coupling between sampling and model updates triggers a vicious cycle that drives the model into local optima; (2) relying on current model parameters narrows sampling to a small region of the item space, reducing diversity and harming generalization; (3) identifying a hard negative requires scoring the entire candidate pool, causing substantial computational overhead with minimal information gain. To address these challenges, we propose MDCNS (Multi-source Divergence-Consensus for Negative Sampling), a novel ''Teacher-Peer-Self'' framework inspired by Vygotsky's Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) theory. The proposed method comprises three components, including multi-source scoring, divergence re-ranking, and consensus distillation. Firstly, multi-source scoring incorporates peer and ensemble teacher models to inject external negative signals and break the self-reinforcement loop. Then, divergence re-ranking exploits prediction discrepancy between self and peer models to enhance sampling diversity. Finally, consensus distillation aligns the self-model with the teacher via KL divergence, simultaneously improving computational cost utilization. Extensive experiments on six real-world datasets and five backbone models show that MDCNS consistently outperforms state-of-the-art negative sampling methods, demonstrating strong effectiveness and generalization.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Bo Peng 0009
63
100 HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (Extended abstract) (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
100 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
72 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
2 Seongmin Park 0002
54
100 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
86 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
54 Linear Item-Item Models with Neural Knowledge for Session-based Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Yanan Niu 51
Area-chair candidates (6)
Yanan Niu assigned 5115 papers
Xin Xin 0003 COI: co-author 5110 papers
Kun Gai COI: co-author 475 papers
Leyu Lin 4615 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 4415 papers
Pengyue Jia 4310 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

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1 Bo Peng 0009 assigned 63 3
100 HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (Extended abstract) (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
100 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
2 Fei Sun 0001 59 3
100 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
84 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
3 Jianling Wang 56 3
100 Recurrent Recommendation with Local Coherence (2019) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
74 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
4 Seongmin Park 0002 assigned 54 3
100 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
86 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
6 Bowen Zheng 0005 COI: co-author 51 3
100 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
56 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
8 Wei Guo 0006 49 3
76 Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
67 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures
9 Lantao Hu COI: co-author 49 3
80 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
59 MODEM: Decoupling User Behavior for Shared-Account Video Recommendations on Large Screen Devices (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
10 Qiang Luo 0004 49 3
100 FIM: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Interest Modeling for Local-Life Service Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
55 MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever (2025) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization
11 Yang Song 0008 48 3
69 Understanding and Modeling Passive-Negative Feedback for Short-video Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multi-Behavior Recommendation
67 Learning and Optimization of Implicit Negative Feedback for Industrial Short-video Recommender System (2023) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
12 Shuchang Liu 0001 48 3
57 Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention (2024) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
54 Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
13 Xiao Zhang 0034 47 3
100 Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
57 When Search Meets Recommendation: Learning Disentangled Search Representation for Recommendation (2023) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
14 James Caverlee 47 3
74 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
66 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications
16 Zhengyi Yang 0007 47 3
54 A Generic Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation with Distribution Shifts (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
51 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
17 Yongjing Hao 46 3
62 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
61 Tell Me Where to Go Next: Improving POI Recommendation via Conversation (2021) Conversational Recommendation Systems
18 Riwei Lai 46 3
67 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
55 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
19 Noveen Sachdeva 46 3
100 Explicit Modelling of the Implicit Short Term User Preferences for Music Recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
54 Attentive neural architecture incorporating song features for music recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information
20 Chunyang Wang 0001 46 3
74 MESA: Plugin Meta-Modulation for Transformer-Based Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation (2026) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
61 Learning Graph-based Disentangled Representations for Next POI Recommendation (2022) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
21 Jinxin Hu 46 3
100 SASNet: Stage-aware Sequential Matching for Online Travel Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
50 CSMF: Cascaded Selective Mask Fine-Tuning for Multi-Objective Embedding-Based Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
22 Jin Chen 0008 COI: co-author 46 3
69 Enhancing Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommenders with Behavior-Aware Regularization (2025) Multi-Behavior Recommendation
52 RecStudio: Towards a Highly-Modularized Recommender System (2023) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
23 Chongming Gao 46 3
52 KuaiRec: A Fully-observed Dataset and Insights for Evaluating Recommender Systems (2022) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
49 On the Theories Behind Hard Negative Sampling for Recommendation (2023) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
25 Chen Wang 0052 45 3
65 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
63 Sequential Recommendation with Auxiliary Item Relationships via Multi-Relational Transformer (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
26 Yuta Saito 45 3
49 Off-Policy Evaluation of Ranking Policies under Diverse User Behavior (2023) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
48 Evaluating the Robustness of Off-Policy Evaluation (2021) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
27 Mengyuan Jing 45 3
100 Intent-Aware Cross Attention for Next POI Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
81 Recognizing Semantics-Consistent Subsequences for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
28 Bo Chen 0023 45 3
56 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
55 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
29 Hyunsik Yoo 45 3
86 Capturing User Interests from Data Streams for Continual Sequential Recommendation (2026) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
69 Mixture of Sequence: Theme-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Sequence Recommendation (2026) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
30 Junwei Pan 44 3
81 Multi-Sequence Attentive User Representation Learning for Side-information Integrated Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information
50 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
31 Jieming Zhu COI: co-author 44 3
60 FANS: Fast Non-Autoregressive Sequence Generation for Item List Continuation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
49 ROMA: Recommendation-Oriented Language Model Adaptation Using Multi-Modal Multi-Domain Item Sequences (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
32 Yongxin Ni 44 3
64 Bridging NIP and MLM: A Unified Meta-Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2026) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
53 Global and Personalized Graphs for Heterogeneous Sequential Recommendation by Learning Behavior Transitions and User Intentions (2022) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
33 Hao Liu 0078 44 3
54 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
51 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
35 Huifeng Guo 43 3
67 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures
52 AutoML for Deep Recommender Systems: Fundamentals and Advances (2023) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation