Bridging Behavior and Semantics for Time-aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation
Abstract
Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) alleviates interaction sparsity by jointly modeling user behaviors across multiple domains. While current studies have made some progresses, they still neglect two issues that severely impact recommendation performance: (i) ignoring domain-specific interaction frequencies and interest decay rates at identical time intervals; (ii) treating semantic preferences as time-invariant during cross-domain transfer. To address these, we propose a novel framework that bridges Behavior and Semantics for Time-aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (BST-CDSR ). Specifically, we design a behavioral preference evolution module that decouples long-term interests and short-term intentions, and models continuous-time preference via a neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) with event-driven updates. Additionally, to capture time-aware semantic preferences, we introduce a temporal counterfactual-enhanced semantic generator that discretizes temporal interval tokens and leverages large language models (LLMs) to extract robust temporal semantics, where counterfactual perturbations enhance the time sensitivity of semantic preferences. Furthermore, we propose a time-preference guided domain transfer module to adaptively control transfer weights and mitigate negative transfer. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that BST-CDSR consistently outperforms baselines.
Assigned reviewers
| # | Reviewer | Match | Why (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy) | |
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| 1 | Chen Wang 0052 | 54 | 67 Pre-Training with Transferable Attention for Addressing Market Shifts in Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation 61 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation 58 Sequential Recommendation with Auxiliary Item Relationships via Multi-Relational Transformer (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation |
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| 2 | Chunyang Wang 0001 | 53 | 58 Contrastive Multi-view Interest Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 58 MESA: Plugin Meta-Modulation for Transformer-Based Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation (2026) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 57 Graph Diffusion-Based Representation Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation |
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| 3 | Riwei Lai | 53 | 74 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation 70 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation 49 Multi-Faceted Global Item Relation Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation |
Area chair
| Area chair | Match | |
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| Leyu Lin | 59 |
Area-chair candidates (7)
| Leyu Lin assigned | 59 | 15 papers | |
| Yanan Niu | 55 | 15 papers | |
| Weiming Liu 0005 | 54 | 8 papers | |
| Maolin Wang 0001 | 54 | 15 papers | |
| Kun Gai | 52 | 5 papers | |
| Pengyue Jia | 51 | 10 papers | |
| Xin Xin 0003 | 50 | 10 papers |
Candidates from the panel ranked by match score
| # | Reviewer | Match | Load | Why | |
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| 2 | Bowen Zheng 0005 | 58 | 3 | 83 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 58 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 3 | Jianling Wang | 58 | 3 | 62 LLMs for User Interest Exploration in Large-scale Recommendation Systems (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 60 A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists (2019) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation |
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| 4 | Hao Liu 0078 | 58 | 3 | 74 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment 54 MCRPL: A Pretrain, Prompt, and Fine-tune Paradigm for Non-overlapping Many-to-one Cross-domain Recommendation (2024) Domain Adaptation and Disentangled Representation for CDR |
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| 5 | Jiangxia Cao | 57 | 3 | 72 CDSRNP: Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation via Neural Process (2025) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation 70 Contrastive Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2022) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation |
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| 6 | Bo Peng 0009 | 56 | 3 | 60 M2: Mixed Models With Preferences, Popularities and Transitions for Next-Basket Recommendation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation 58 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 7 | Fei Sun 0001 | 56 | 3 | 59 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation 58 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 8 | Zhengyi Yang 0007 | 56 | 3 | 78 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 53 A Bi-Step Grounding Paradigm for Large Language Models in Recommendation Systems (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |
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| 9 | Seongmin Park 0002 | 55 | 3 | 67 MergeRec: Model Merging for Data-Isolated Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2026) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation 60 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation |
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| 11 | Junwei Pan | 55 | 3 | 75 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization 68 Pre-train, Align, and Disentangle: Empowering Sequential Recommendation with Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 12 | Qiang Luo 0004 | 54 | 3 | 58 FIM: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Interest Modeling for Local-Life Service Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 54 MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever (2025) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization |
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| 14 | Chen Wang 0052 assigned | 54 | 3 | 67 Pre-Training with Transferable Attention for Addressing Market Shifts in Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation 61 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation |
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| 16 | Bo Chen 0023 | 53 | 3 | 72 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 71 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 17 | Yang Song 0008 | 53 | 3 | 70 Mixed Attention Network for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation 58 Understanding and Modeling Passive-Negative Feedback for Short-video Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multi-Behavior Recommendation |
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| 18 | Chunyang Wang 0001 assigned | 53 | 3 | 58 Contrastive Multi-view Interest Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning 58 MESA: Plugin Meta-Modulation for Transformer-Based Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation (2026) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 19 | Jinxin Hu | 53 | 3 | 58 SASNet: Stage-aware Sequential Matching for Online Travel Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 51 CSMF: Cascaded Selective Mask Fine-Tuning for Multi-Objective Embedding-Based Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 20 | Riwei Lai assigned | 53 | 3 | 74 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation 70 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation |
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| 21 | Lantao Hu | 53 | 3 | 58 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 55 Tag Tree-Guided Multi-grained Alignment for Multi-Domain Short Video Recommendation (2024) Multi-Domain and Multi-Market Recommendation |
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| 22 | Junjie Zhang 0009 | 52 | 3 | 61 Curriculum-scheduled knowledge distillation from multiple pre-trained teachers for multi-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation 58 Frequency-Augmented Mixture-of-Heterogeneous-Experts Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 24 | Jiancan Wu | 52 | 3 | 70 Customizing Language Models with Instance-wise LoRA for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 68 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 25 | Ke Wang 0038 | 52 | 3 | 67 Enhancing Cross-Domain Recommendation with Plug-In Contrastive Representations from Large Language Models (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 67 Contrastive Multi-view Interest Learning for Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation |
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| 26 | Xiao Zhang 0034 | 52 | 3 | 78 MoRE: A Mixture of Reflectors Framework for Large Language Model-Based Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 58 Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 27 | Yong He 0009 | 51 | 3 | 52 An Industrial Framework for Cold-Start Recommendation in Zero-Shot Scenarios (2022) Content and Attribute-Based Cold-Start Recommendation 52 Task Similarity Aware Meta Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation (2022) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation |
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| 29 | James Caverlee | 51 | 3 | 70 Language Models as Semantic Augmenters for Sequential Recommenders (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 58 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications |
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| 30 | Chongming Gao | 51 | 3 | 73 Large Language Models are Learnable Planners for Long-Term Recommendation (2024) Preference Alignment and Optimization 53 DLCRec: A Novel Approach for Managing Diversity in LLM-Based Recommender Systems (2025) Preference Alignment and Optimization |
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| 31 | Wei Guo 0006 | 51 | 3 | 56 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures 55 Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation |
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| 33 | Huifeng Guo | 50 | 3 | 56 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures 52 LLMTreeRec: Unleashing the Power of Large Language Models for Cold-Start Recommendations (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |
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| 34 | Mengyuan Jing | 49 | 3 | 60 Recognizing Semantics-Consistent Subsequences for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation 58 Intent-Aware Cross Attention for Next POI Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 35 | Han Li 0005 | 49 | 3 | 83 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 58 Lasso: Large Language Model-based User Simulator for Cross-Domain Recommendation (2025) User Simulation for Interactive Systems |
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| 36 | Min Hou 0004 | 49 | 3 | 79 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment 52 GoRec: A Generative Cold-start Recommendation Framework (2023) Content-Based Transferable Recommendation |
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| 37 | Jizhi Zhang | 49 | 3 | 68 Large Language Model Can Interpret Latent Space of Sequential Recommender (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 53 Decoding Matters: Addressing Amplification Bias and Homogeneity Issue in Recommendations for Large Language Models (2024) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |