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AsarRec: Adaptive Sequential Augmentation for Robust Self-supervised Sequential Recommendation

sigir26-105 · Full research paper · Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Fei Sun, Xinran Liu, Huawei Shen, Xueqi Cheng
Sequential and Session-Based Graph R · 50% Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequ · 25% Robustness to Noise and Distribution · 25%
Abstract

Real-world user behaviors are often noisy due to factors such as human errors, uncertainty, and behavioral ambiguity, which can lead to degraded recommendation performance. To address this issue, recent approaches widely adopt self-supervised learning (SSL), particularly contrastive learning, by generating perturbed views of user interaction sequences and maximizing their mutual information to improve model robustness. However, these methods heavily rely on their pre-defined static augmentation strategies~(where the augmentation type remains fixed once chosen) to construct augmented views, leading to two critical challenges: (1) the optimal augmentation type can vary significantly across different scenarios; (2) inappropriate augmentations may even degrade recommendation performance, limiting the effectiveness of SSL. To overcome these limitations, we propose an adaptive augmentation framework. We first unify existing basic augmentation operations into a unified formulation via structured transformation matrices. Building on this formulation, we introduce AsarRec, an Adaptive Sequential Augmentation for Robust Sequential Recommendation. To enable stable end-to-end optimization of discrete and strongly constrained augmentations, AsarRec learns to generate transformation matrices by encoding user sequences into probabilistic transition matrices and projecting them into hard semi-doubly stochastic matrices via a differentiable Semi-Sinkhorn algorithm. To ensure that the learned augmentations benefit downstream performance, we jointly optimize three objectives: diversity (encouraging distinct views), semantic invariance (preserving semantic consistency among views), and informativeness (identifying augmentations most beneficial to recommendation). Extensive experiments on four benchmarks under varying noise levels validate the effectiveness of AsarRec, demonstrating its superior robustness and consistent improvements.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Yongjing Hao
55
77 Edge-enhanced Global Disentangled Graph Neural Network for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
77 Multi-dimensional Graph Neural Network for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
73 Learnable Model Augmentation Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
2 Hyunsik Yoo
50
54 Mixture of Sequence: Theme-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Sequence Recommendation (2026) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
53 Capturing User Interests from Data Streams for Continual Sequential Recommendation (2026) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
53 Generalizable Recommender System During Temporal Popularity Distribution Shifts (2025) Robustness to Noise and Distribution Shift
3 Lingling Yi
47
73 Hierarchical Graph Information Bottleneck for Multi-Behavior Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
65 Item-Provider Co-learning for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
48 PRECISE: Pre-training and Fine-tuning Sequential Recommenders with Collaborative and Semantic Information (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Yanan Niu 57
Area-chair candidates (7)
Yanan Niu assigned 5715 papers
Xin Xin 0003 5610 papers
Leyu Lin 5115 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 478 papers
Qiaoyu Tan 477 papers
Kun Gai 475 papers
Maolin Wang 0001 4415 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Fei Sun 0001 COI: author 59 3
75 Multi-Behavior Sequential Modeling with Transition-Aware Graph Attention Network for E-Commerce Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
69 LoRec: Combating Poisons with Large Language Model for Robust Sequential Recommendation (2024) Robustness to Noise and Distribution Shift
4 Jianling Wang 56 3
75 Next-item Recommendation with Sequential Hypergraphs (2020) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
75 Session-based Recommendation with Hypergraph Attention Networks (2021) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
5 Yongjing Hao assigned 55 3
77 Edge-enhanced Global Disentangled Graph Neural Network for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
77 Multi-dimensional Graph Neural Network for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
6 Hao Liu 0078 52 3
67 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
50 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment
7 Chen Wang 0052 51 3
58 Confidence-Aware Fine-Tuning of Sequential Recommendation Systems Via Conformal Prediction (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
54 Sequential Recommendation with Auxiliary Item Relationships via Multi-Relational Transformer (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
9 Hyunsik Yoo assigned 50 3
54 Mixture of Sequence: Theme-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Sequence Recommendation (2026) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
53 Capturing User Interests from Data Streams for Continual Sequential Recommendation (2026) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
10 Lantao Hu 50 3
62 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
57 Natural Language Explainable Recommendation with Robustness Enhancement (2024) Explainable and Causal Recommendation
11 Zhengyi Yang 0007 50 3
67 A Generic Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation with Distribution Shifts (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
49 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
12 Mengyuan Jing 50 3
72 Dual Contrastive Learning for Multi-Behavior Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
55 Recognizing Semantics-Consistent Subsequences for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
13 Yang Song 0008 COI: co-author 50 3
77 Sequential Recommendation with Graph Neural Networks (2021) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
54 Mixed Attention Network for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
14 Bo Peng 0009 50 3
54 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
54 Modeling Sequences as Star Graphs to Address Over-Smoothing in Self-Attentive Sequential Recommendation (2024) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
15 Chunyang Wang 0001 49 3
75 Graph Diffusion-Based Representation Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
63 Learning Graph-based Disentangled Representations for Next POI Recommendation (2022) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
16 Riwei Lai 49 3
54 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
54 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
17 Lianghao Xia 48 3
74 Multi-Behavior Hypergraph-Enhanced Transformer for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
66 Graph Masked Autoencoder for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
18 James Caverlee 48 3
75 Next-item Recommendation with Sequential Hypergraphs (2020) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
75 Session-based Recommendation with Hypergraph Attention Networks (2021) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
19 Miaomiao Cai 0001 48 3
62 RMBRec: Robust Multi-Behavior Recommendation towards Target Behaviors (2026) Robustness to Noise and Distribution Shift
45 Mitigating Recommendation Biases via Group-Alignment and Global-Uniformity in Representation Learning (2024) Popularity Bias and Debiasing in Recommendation
20 Seongmin Park 0002 48 3
53 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
50 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
22 Jin Chen 0008 47 3
53 Dual Test-Time Training for Out-of-Distribution Recommender System (2025) Robustness to Noise and Distribution Shift
49 Enhancing Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommenders with Behavior-Aware Regularization (2025) Multi-Behavior Recommendation
23 Lingling Yi assigned 47 3
73 Hierarchical Graph Information Bottleneck for Multi-Behavior Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
65 Item-Provider Co-learning for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
24 Jieming Zhu 47 3
54 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs
53 Directional Adversarial Training for Recommender Systems (2020) Robustness to Noise and Distribution Shift
27 Wei Guo 0006 46 3
74 Compressed Interaction Graph based Framework for Multi-behavior Recommendation (2023) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
49 Breaking the Bottleneck: User-Specific Optimization and Real-Time Inference Integration for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
28 Shuchang Liu 0001 COI: co-author 46 3
58 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization
57 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
29 Ke Wang 0038 46 3
60 Contrastive Multi-view Interest Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
47 LLM-Grounded Diffusion for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
30 Yongxin Ni 45 3
74 Global and Personalized Graphs for Heterogeneous Sequential Recommendation by Learning Behavior Transitions and User Intentions (2022) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
59 Bridging NIP and MLM: A Unified Meta-Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2026) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
31 Min Hou 0004 45 3
67 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
32 Dongxiao He 45 3
58 Reliable Data Augmented Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
49 Attribute Association Driven Multi-Task Learning for Session-based Recommendation (2025) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization
33 Bowen Zheng 0005 45 3
53 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
50 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
34 Jiuqiang Li 0002 45 3
60 Disentangled Contrastive Bundle Recommendation with Conditional Diffusion (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
45 Graph Diffusive Self-Supervised Learning for Social Recommendation (2024) Social and Group Recommendation
35 Bo Chen 0023 COI: co-author 45 3
73 Compressed Interaction Graph based Framework for Multi-behavior Recommendation (2023) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation
51 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
36 Xin Zhang 0091 45 3
51 Deep Dynamic Interest Learning With Session Local and Global Consistency for Click-Through Rate Predictions (2022) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
51 Deep Session Heterogeneity-Aware Network for Click Through Rate Prediction (2024) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction