Coupling Global Context with Kinematic Evolution for Sequential Recommendation
Abstract
Accurately modeling the continuous evolution of user preferences remains a fundamental challenge in sequential recommendation. While existing models have made significant strides in capturing sequential dependencies, they predominantly encode historical behaviors via discrete aggregation, often failing to explicitly model the continuous evolution trends and intrinsic momentum underlying preference shifts. To address this limitation, we propose Kinematic Evolution for Sequential Recommendation (KERec), which models user preference evolution from a continuous kinematic perspective. KERec adopts a dual-branch encoding architecture: the global context branch captures stable long-term preference structures, while the kinematic evolution branch explicitly models the first-order velocity and second-order acceleration of preference evolution based on Taylor series expansion and multi-scale difference operators. To effectively integrate these heterogeneous signals, we introduce an adaptive feature fusion mechanism that balances steady-state consistency with dynamic sensitivity. Furthermore, we design a momentum-guided contrastive learning paradigm that constrains augmentation views via evolutionary momentum, suppressing random noise while reinforcing the perception of genuine evolutionary trajectories. Extensive experiments on multiple public benchmark datasets demonstrate that KERec significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in recommendation accuracy and exhibits superior robustness under varying sequence lengths and noisy levels. The code of our method is available at https://github.com/yyt-1219/KERec.
Assigned reviewers
| # | Reviewer | Match | Why (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy) | |
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| 1 | Fei Sun 0001 | 64 | 80 Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 80 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 78 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation |
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| 2 | Lantao Hu | 56 | 100 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 72 MODEM: Decoupling User Behavior for Shared-Account Video Recommendations on Large Screen Devices (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 68 Soft Contrastive Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation |
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| 3 | Noveen Sachdeva | 51 | 80 Explicit Modelling of the Implicit Short Term User Preferences for Music Recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 58 ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs 54 Attentive neural architecture incorporating song features for music recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information |
Area chair
| Area chair | Match | |
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| Xin Xin 0003 | 57 |
Area-chair candidates (5)
| Xin Xin 0003 assigned | 57 | 10 papers | |
| Yanan Niu | 56 | 15 papers | |
| Leyu Lin | 53 | 15 papers | |
| Kun Gai | 52 | 5 papers | |
| Maolin Wang 0001 | 47 | 15 papers |
Candidates from the panel ranked by match score
| # | Reviewer | Match | Load | Why | |
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| 1 | Fei Sun 0001 assigned | 64 | 3 | 80 Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 80 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 2 | Bo Peng 0009 | 64 | 3 | 80 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 80 HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (Extended abstract) (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 3 | Jianling Wang | 60 | 3 | 80 Recurrent Recommendation with Local Coherence (2019) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 80 Learning to Augment for Casual User Recommendation (2022) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation |
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| 4 | Seongmin Park 0002 | 57 | 3 | 84 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation 80 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 7 | Lantao Hu assigned | 56 | 3 | 100 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 72 MODEM: Decoupling User Behavior for Shared-Account Video Recommendations on Large Screen Devices (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 8 | Bowen Zheng 0005 | 55 | 3 | 80 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 55 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 9 | Qiang Luo 0004 | 54 | 3 | 80 FIM: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Interest Modeling for Local-Life Service Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 66 MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever (2025) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization |
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| 10 | Yongjing Hao | 54 | 3 | 81 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 70 Learnable Model Augmentation Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation |
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| 12 | Mengyuan Jing | 52 | 3 | 80 Intent-Aware Cross Attention for Next POI Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 80 Recognizing Semantics-Consistent Subsequences for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation |
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| 13 | Wei Guo 0006 | 52 | 3 | 75 Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 68 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures |
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| 15 | Hao Liu 0078 | 51 | 3 | 73 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 52 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment |
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| 16 | Noveen Sachdeva assigned | 51 | 3 | 80 Explicit Modelling of the Implicit Short Term User Preferences for Music Recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 58 ActionPiece: Contextually Tokenizing Action Sequences for Generative Recommendation (2025) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 17 | Chen Wang 0052 | 51 | 3 | 80 Confidence-Aware Fine-Tuning of Sequential Recommendation Systems Via Conformal Prediction (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 63 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation |
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| 18 | Chunyang Wang 0001 | 50 | 3 | 75 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 |
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| 19 | Yang Song 0008 | 50 | 3 | 67 Learning and Optimization of Implicit Negative Feedback for Industrial Short-video Recommender System (2023) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation 66 Understanding and Modeling Passive-Negative Feedback for Short-video Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multi-Behavior Recommendation |
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| 20 | Zhengyi Yang 0007 | 50 | 3 | 73 A Generic Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation with Distribution Shifts (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 50 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 21 | Shuchang Liu 0001 | 50 | 3 | 59 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders 57 Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention (2024) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation |
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| 22 | Riwei Lai | 50 | 3 | 68 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation 58 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation |
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| 23 | Jin Chen 0008 | 50 | 3 | 66 Enhancing Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommenders with Behavior-Aware Regularization (2025) Multi-Behavior Recommendation 52 Cooperative Retriever and Ranker in Deep Recommenders (2023) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 24 | James Caverlee | 49 | 3 | 75 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 64 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications |
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| 25 | Xiao Zhang 0034 | 49 | 3 | 80 Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 77 When Search Meets Recommendation: Learning Disentangled Search Representation for Recommendation (2023) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 26 | Jinxin Hu | 49 | 3 | 80 SASNet: Stage-aware Sequential Matching for Online Travel Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 53 CSMF: Cascaded Selective Mask Fine-Tuning for Multi-Objective Embedding-Based Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 27 | Jieming Zhu | 48 | 3 | 61 FANS: Fast Non-Autoregressive Sequence Generation for Item List Continuation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation 58 EAGER: Two-Stream Generative Recommender with Behavior-Semantic Collaboration (2024) Item Tokenization and Semantic IDs |
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| 28 | Yongxin Ni | 48 | 3 | 74 Bridging NIP and MLM: A Unified Meta-Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2026) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation 52 An Image Dataset for Benchmarking Recommender Systems with Raw Pixels (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation |
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| 29 | Min Hou 0004 | 48 | 3 | 73 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 65 STGCN: A Spatial-Temporal Aware Graph Learning Method for POI Recommendation (2020) Graph Neural Network Architectures for CF |
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| 30 | Jiangxia Cao | 48 | 3 | 62 CDSRNP: Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation via Neural Process (2025) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation 58 Contrastive Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2022) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation |
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| 31 | Junwei Pan | 47 | 3 | 78 Multi-Sequence Attentive User Representation Learning for Side-information Integrated Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information 50 Cross-Scale Collaboration between LLMs and Lightweight Sequential Recommenders with Domain-Specific Latent Reasoning (2026) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |
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| 32 | Ke Wang 0038 | 47 | 3 | 65 Contrastive Multi-view Interest Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 49 Multifaceted Relation-aware Meta-learning with Dual Customization for User Cold-start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation |
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| 34 | Bo Chen 0023 | 47 | 3 | 55 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 54 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 35 | Junjie Zhang 0009 | 47 | 3 | 80 Frequency-Augmented Mixture-of-Heterogeneous-Experts Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 59 Sequence-level Semantic Representation Fusion for Recommender Systems (2024) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information |