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RecPFN: Prior-Fitted Networks for In-Context-Based Recommendations

sigir26-172 · Full research paper · En Zhi Tan, Jia Xiang Lim, Bryan Lijie Chew, Tze Minh Ng, Benjamin Yan Han Yap
Sequential Recommendation with User · 50% Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recomme · 50%
Abstract

We introduce RecPFN, a prior-fitted network that brings in-context learning to sequential recommendation. RecPFN is pretrained entirely on synthetic clickstream environments sampled from a broad structural causal prior, enabling it to amortize Bayesian-style inference from a small support set. At inference, a lightweight decoder-only transformer conditions on a handful of domain sequences and produces next-item predictions for queries in a single forward pass, without any weight updates. Across eight public benchmarks, RecPFN achives state-of-the-art zero-shot performance while remaining strongly competitive with supervised methods in low-compute and low-data regimes. It is deployment-efficient and robust to domain shift, outperforming strong zero-shot baselines that rely on large real-interaction corpora. RecPFN provides a practical path toward generalizable, data-efficient recommenders and opens avenues for richer priors, longer-context ICL, and multimodal extensions. Code for training and evaluation will be made publicly available by the conference date.

Assigned reviewers

#ReviewerMatchWhy (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy)
1 Chunyang Wang 0001
64
100 MESA: Plugin Meta-Modulation for Transformer-Based Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation (2026) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
74 A Preference Learning Decoupling Framework for User Cold-Start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
74 Adaptive Continual Learning with User-Incremental Forward Compatibility for Meta-Augmented Cold-Start Recommenders (2026) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
2 Jianling Wang
58
100 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
74 Recurrent Recommendation with Local Coherence (2019) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
63 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
3 James Caverlee
51
100 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
55 Recommendation for New Users and New Items via Randomized Training and Mixture-of-Experts Transformation (2020) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation

Area chair

Area chairMatch
Leyu Lin 53
Area-chair candidates (6)
Leyu Lin assigned 5315 papers
Yanan Niu 5215 papers
Xin Xin 0003 5210 papers
Kun Gai 505 papers
Qiaoyu Tan 477 papers
Weiming Liu 0005 468 papers

Candidates from the panel ranked by match score

#ReviewerMatchLoadWhy
1 Chunyang Wang 0001 assigned 64 3
100 MESA: Plugin Meta-Modulation for Transformer-Based Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation (2026) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
74 A Preference Learning Decoupling Framework for User Cold-Start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
2 Bo Peng 0009 61 3
74 HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (Extended abstract) (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
74 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
3 Fei Sun 0001 59 3
100 Intent Preference Decoupling for User Representation on Online Recommender System (2020) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
74 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
4 Jianling Wang assigned 58 3
100 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
74 Recurrent Recommendation with Local Coherence (2019) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
5 Mengyuan Jing 54 3
75 Recognizing Semantics-Consistent Subsequences for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
74 Intent-Aware Cross Attention for Next POI Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
7 Seongmin Park 0002 53 3
77 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
74 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
8 Bowen Zheng 0005 53 3
74 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
54 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
9 Qiang Luo 0004 52 3
74 FIM: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Interest Modeling for Local-Life Service Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
57 MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever (2025) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization
12 Jiangxia Cao 52 3
78 CDSRNP: Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation via Neural Process (2025) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
70 Personalized Multi-Interest Modeling for Cross-Domain Recommendation to Cold-Start Users (2025) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR
13 Ke Wang 0038 51 3
74 Multifaceted Relation-aware Meta-learning with Dual Customization for User Cold-start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
74 A Preference Learning Decoupling Framework for User Cold-Start Recommendation (2023) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
14 James Caverlee assigned 51 3
100 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
15 Lantao Hu 50 3
75 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
62 MODEM: Decoupling User Behavior for Shared-Account Video Recommendations on Large Screen Devices (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning
16 Wei Guo 0006 50 3
72 Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
63 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures
17 Yong He 0009 50 3
73 Task Similarity Aware Meta Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation (2022) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
70 DCBT: A Simple But Effective Way for Unified Warm and Cold Recommendation (2023) CTR and Conversion Rate Prediction
19 Jinxin Hu 49 3
74 SASNet: Stage-aware Sequential Matching for Online Travel Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
52 CSMF: Cascaded Selective Mask Fine-Tuning for Multi-Objective Embedding-Based Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
20 Yongxin Ni 48 3
90 Bridging NIP and MLM: A Unified Meta-Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2026) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation
54 An Image Dataset for Benchmarking Recommender Systems with Raw Pixels (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation
21 Hao Liu 0078 48 3
56 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
22 Yang Song 0008 48 3
66 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
23 Shuchang Liu 0001 48 3
54 Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention (2024) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation
51 Distinguished Quantized Guidance for Diffusion-based Sequence Recommendation (2025) Diffusion and Flow Recommenders
25 Junwei Pan 47 3
74 Multi-Sequence Attentive User Representation Learning for Side-information Integrated Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information
51 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization
26 Riwei Lai 47 3
67 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
56 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation
27 Jieming Zhu 47 3
56 FANS: Fast Non-Autoregressive Sequence Generation for Item List Continuation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation
52 ROMA: Recommendation-Oriented Language Model Adaptation Using Multi-Modal Multi-Domain Item Sequences (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
28 Chen Wang 0052 47 3
59 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation
56 Sequential Recommendation with Auxiliary Item Relationships via Multi-Relational Transformer (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation
29 Noveen Sachdeva 46 3
74 Explicit Modelling of the Implicit Short Term User Preferences for Music Recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
57 Attentive neural architecture incorporating song features for music recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information
30 Zhengyi Yang 0007 46 3
56 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
31 Min Hou 0004 46 3
58 STGCN: A Spatial-Temporal Aware Graph Learning Method for POI Recommendation (2020) Graph Neural Network Architectures for CF
56 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
32 Xiao Zhang 0034 46 3
74 Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
54 When Search Meets Recommendation: Learning Disentangled Search Representation for Recommendation (2023) Recommendation with Search and Ranking
33 Bo Chen 0023 46 3
55 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
53 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation
34 Yongjing Hao 46 3
56 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation
56 Tell Me Where to Go Next: Improving POI Recommendation via Conversation (2021) Conversational Recommendation Systems
36 Junjie Zhang 0009 46 3
74 Frequency-Augmented Mixture-of-Heterogeneous-Experts Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling
55 Sequence-level Semantic Representation Fusion for Recommender Systems (2024) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information