The Tech Gazette · Papers · Search and retrieval https://techgazette.com.br/research/#retrieval This week's papers in Search and retrieval, each with what its authors did and found, in sentences from its own abstract. en 180 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT Learning Popularity-Aware User Representations for Sequential Recommendation via Retrieval-Augmentation https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3858619 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3858619 Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOIS (Information Systems) Search and retrieval ACM TOIS (Information Systems) — Did: Sequential recommendation methods are important in recommender systems, as they capture users’ dynamic interests from their historical behavior sequences. Distilling Transitional Patterns to Multimodal Large Language Models for Session-based Recommendation https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3856985 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3856985 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOIS (Information Systems) Search and retrieval ACM TOIS (Information Systems) — Did: Session-based recommendation (SBR) predicts the next item based on anonymous sessions. GaCLLM: Large Language Model with Graph Convolution for Recommendation https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3857345 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3857345 Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:00:00 GMT ACM TOIS (Information Systems) Search and retrieval ACM TOIS (Information Systems) — Did: Leveraging auxiliary textual data can help with user profiling and item characterization in recommender systems (RSs).