Search, retrieval & recommendation· 2019
BERT4Rec: Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformer
On the reading lists
- #304 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #21 in Search, retrieval & recommendation (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Established bidirectional masked-item modeling for transformer-based sequential recommendation.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2019 (from arXiv 1904.06690)
- Citations
- 3,680 citations, as counted by Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.443 · computed rank 304 · consensus 0.44, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.889 (2010s · retrieval), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each count names its source. See the method.