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Due to the extensive growth of information available online, recommender systems play a more significant role in serving people's interests. Traditional recommender systems mostly use an accuracy-focused approach to produce recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Samira Vaez Barenji , Saeed Farzi

Recommender System (RS) is currently an effective way to solve information overload. To meet users' next click behavior, RS needs to collect users' personal information and behavior to achieve a comprehensive and profound user preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Jiangcheng Qin , Baisong Liu

A recent study has shown that diffusion models are well-suited for modeling the generative process of user-item interactions in recommender systems due to their denoising nature. However, existing diffusion model-based recommender systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yu Hou , Jin-Duk Park , Won-Yong Shin

Classic resource recommenders like Collaborative Filtering (CF) treat users as being just another entity, neglecting non-linear user-resource dynamics shaping attention and interpretation. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Paul Seitlinger , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi , Tobias Ley , Elisabeth Lex

Clustered Federated Learning has emerged as an effective approach for handling heterogeneous data across clients by partitioning them into clusters with similar or identical data distributions. However, most existing methods, including the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jonas Kirch , Sebastian Becker , Tiago Koketsu Rodrigues , Stefan Harmeling

User-centric recommendation has become essential for delivering personalized services, as it enables systems to adapt to users' evolving behaviors while respecting their long-term preferences and privacy constraints. Although federated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Chunxu Zhang , Zhiheng Xue , Guodong Long , Weipeng Zhang , Bo Yang

Federated Recommendation Systems (FRSs) offer a privacy-preserving alternative to traditional centralized approaches by decentralizing data storage. However, they face persistent challenges such as data sparsity and heterogeneity, largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Chunxu Zhang , Honglei Zhang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

While a user's preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learning recommender models. In particular, existing collaborative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-03-01 Shuang Hong Yang

Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems are typically trained based on personal interaction data (e.g., clicks and purchases) that could be naturally represented as ego graphs. However, most existing recommendation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Liang Qu , Ningzhi Tang , Ruiqi Zheng , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

Recommendation systems typically require centralized user data, limiting user control and raising privacy concerns. Federated learning offers an alternative by keeping data on-device, but its impact on real user behavior remains largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Manel Slokom , Alejandro Bellogin

Giving or recommending appropriate content based on the quality of experience is the most important and challenging issue in recommender systems. As collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most prominent and popular techniques used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Cong Tran , Jang-Young Kim , Won-Yong Shin , Sang-Wook Kim

Recommender systems can be privacy-sensitive. To protect users' private historical interactions, federated learning has been proposed in distributed learning for user representations. Using federated recommender (FedRec) systems, users can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qi Hu , Yangqiu Song

Recommendation systems form the center piece of a rapidly growing trillion dollar online advertisement industry. Even with numerous optimizations and approximations, collaborative filtering (CF) based approaches require real-time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Theja Tulabandhula , Shailesh Vaya , Aritra Dhar

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

Among various recommender techniques, collaborative filtering (CF) is the most successful one. And a key problem in CF is how to represent users and items. Previous works usually represent a user (an item) as a vector of latent factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Gongshan He , Dongxing Zhao , Lixin Ding

Precise user and item embedding learning is the key to building a successful recommender system. Traditionally, Collaborative Filtering(CF) provides a way to learn user and item embeddings from the user-item interaction history. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Le Wu , Peijie Sun , Yanjie Fu , Richang Hong , Xiting Wang , Meng Wang

Recommendation system is important to a content sharing/creating social network. Collaborative filtering is a widely-adopted technology in conventional recommenders, which is based on similarity between positively engaged content items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Yifang Liu , Zhentao Xu , Cong Hui , Yi Xuan , Jessie Chen , Yuanming Shan

Integrating Foundation Models (FMs) into recommendation systems is an emerging and promising research direction. However, centralized paradigms face growing pressure from privacy concerns and strict regulatory requirements. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Chunxu Zhang , Honglei Zhang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi 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

Hashing is an effective technique to address the large-scale recommendation problem, due to its high computation and storage efficiency on calculating the user preferences on items. However, existing hashing-based recommendation methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Yang Xu , Lei Zhu , Zhiyong Cheng , Jingjing Li , Jiande Sun