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Collaborative filtering is an effective recommendation approach in which the preference of a user on an item is predicted based on the preferences of other users with similar interests. A big challenge in using collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yu Zhang , Bin Cao , Dit-Yan Yeung

Two main challenges in recommender systems are modeling users with heterogeneous taste, and providing explainable recommendations. In this paper, we propose the neural Attentive Multi-Persona Collaborative Filtering (AMP-CF) model as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Oren Barkan , Yonatan Fuchs , Avi Caciularu , Noam Koenigstein

The growth of Internet commerce has stimulated the use of collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms as recommender systems. Such systems leverage knowledge about the known preferences of multiple users to recommend items of interest to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-01-18 David M. Pennock , Eric J. Horvitz , Steve Lawrence , C. Lee Giles

Collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF) have widely been used in information filtering applications. Both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses which is why researchers have developed hybrid systems. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Kai Yu , Anton Schwaighofer , Volker Tresp , Wei-Ying Ma , HongJiang Zhang

Recommender systems play an important role in many scenarios where users are overwhelmed with too many choices to make. In this context, Collaborative Filtering (CF) arises by providing a simple and widely used approach for personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Gustavo R. Lima , Carlos E. Mello , Geraldo Zimbrao

Existing item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) methods leverage only the relation of collaborative similarity. Nevertheless, there exist multiple relations between items in real-world scenarios. Distinct from the collaborative similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Xin Xin , Xiangnan He , Yongfeng Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Joemon Jose

Matrix factorization (MS) is a collaborative filtering (CF) based approach, which is widely used for recommendation systems (RS). In this research work, we deal with the content recommendation problem for users in a content management…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Debashish Roy , Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Abdullah Bin Nasser , Afdhal Azmi , Marzieh Babaeianjelodar

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

In this paper, we study a multi-step interactive recommendation problem, where the item recommended at current step may affect the quality of future recommendations. To address the problem, we develop a novel and effective approach, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Yu Lei , Wenjie Li

This paper proposes a decentralized recommender system by formulating the popular collaborative filleting (CF) model into a decentralized matrix completion form over a set of users. In such a way, data storages and computations are fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Zhangyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Shiyu Chang , Jiayu Zhou , Guo-Jun Qi , Thomas S. Huang

Recommender systems today have become an essential component of any commercial website. Collaborative filtering approaches, and Matrix Factorization (MF) techniques in particular, are widely used in recommender systems. However, the natural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Meshal Alfarhood , Jianlin Cheng

Collaborative filtering is one of the most popular techniques in designing recommendation systems, and its most representative model, matrix factorization, has been wildly used by researchers and the industry. However, this model suffers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Yixin Su , Sarah Monazam Erfani , Rui Zhang

Matrix factorization models are the core of current commercial collaborative filtering Recommender Systems. This paper tested six representative matrix factorization models, using four collaborative filtering datasets. Experiments have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jesús Bobadilla , Jorge Dueñas-Lerín , Fernando Ortega , Abraham Gutierrez

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most used methods for Recommender System. Because of the Bayesian nature and nonlinearity, deep generative models, e.g. Variational Autoencoder (VAE), have been applied into CF task, and have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Teng Xiao , Shangsong Liang , Hong Shen , Zaiqiao Meng

Agentic recommendations cast recommenders as large language model (LLM) agents that can plan, reason, use tools, and interact with users of varying preferences in web applications. However, most existing agentic recommender systems focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yu Xia , Sungchul Kim , Tong Yu , Ryan A. Rossi , Julian McAuley

Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods dominate real-world recommender systems given their ability to learn high-quality, sparse ID-embedding tables that effectively capture user preferences. These tables scale linearly with the number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Donald Loveland , Xinyi Wu , Tong Zhao , Danai Koutra , Neil Shah , Mingxuan Ju

We present a general approach for collaborative filtering (CF) using spectral regularization to learn linear operators from "users" to the "objects" they rate. Recent low-rank type matrix completion approaches to CF are shown to be special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-19 Jacob Abernethy , Francis Bach , Theodoros Evgeniou , Jean-Philippe Vert

Standard Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms make use of interactions between users and items in the form of implicit or explicit ratings alone for generating recommendations. Similarity among users or items is calculated purely based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Jobin Wilson , Santanu Chaudhury , Brejesh Lall , Prateek Kapadia

Collaborative Filtering (CF) has emerged as fundamental paradigms for parameterizing users and items into latent representation space, with their correlative patterns from interaction data. Among various CF techniques, the development of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Collaborative filtering (CF) allows the preferences of multiple users to be pooled to make recommendations regarding unseen products. We consider in this paper the problem of online and interactive CF: given the current ratings associated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Craig Boutilier , Richard S. Zemel , Benjamin Marlin