Abacus: Self-Supervised Event Counting-Aligned Distributional Pretraining for Sequential User Modeling.

@inproceedings{castro-2026-abacus, author = {Sullivan Castro and Artem Betlei and Thomas Di Martino and Nadir El Manouzi}, title = {{Abacus: Self-Supervised Event Counting-Aligned Distributional Pretraining for Sequential User Modeling}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Nineteenth ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining, WSDM 2026, Boise, ID, USA, February 22-26, 2026}}, pages = {1083--1088}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3773966.3779391}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3773966.3779391} }