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Existing solutions for bundle recommendation (BR) have achieved remarkable effectiveness for predicting the user's preference for prebuilt bundles. However, bundle-item (B-I) affiliation will vary dynamically in real scenarios. For example,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Dong Zhang , Lin Li , Ming Li , Amran Bhuiyan , Meng Sun , Xiaohui Tao , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Recommenders aim to rank items from a discrete item corpus in line with user interests, yet suffer from extremely sparse user preference data. Recent advances in diffusion models have inspired diffusion-based recommenders, which alleviate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Guoqing Hu , An Zhang. Shuchang Liu , Wenyu Mao , Jiancan Wu , Xun Yang , Xiang Li , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Kun Gai , Xiang Wang

Current practice for evaluating recommender systems typically focuses on point estimates of user-oriented effectiveness metrics or business metrics, sometimes combined with additional metrics for considerations such as diversity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Michael D. Ekstrand , Ben Carterette , Fernando Diaz

Recommender systems predict personalized item rankings based on user preference distributions derived from historical behavior data. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have gained attention in recommendation for their ability to model complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuo Liu , An Zhang , Guoqing Hu , Hong Qian , Tat-seng Chua

Relevance and diversity are both important to the success of recommender systems, as they help users to discover from a large pool of items a compact set of candidates that are not only interesting but exploratory as well. The challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yifang Liu , Zhentao Xu , Qiyuan An , Yang Yi , Yanzhi Wang , Trevor Hastie

The dynamic environment in the real world calls for the adaptive techniques for information filtering, namely to provide real-time responses to the changes of system data. Where many incremental algorithms are designed for this purpose,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-11-26 Ci-Hang Jin , Jian-Guo Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Tao Zhou

Diffusion-based recommender systems (DR) have gained increasing attention for their advanced generative and denoising capabilities. However, existing DR face two central limitations: (i) a trade-off between enhancing generative capacity via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Gyuseok Lee , Yaochen Zhu , Hwanjo Yu , Yao Zhou , Jundong Li

Personalized recommender systems are confronting great challenges of accuracy, diversification and novelty, especially when the data set is sparse and lacks accessorial information, such as user profiles, item attributes and explicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2009-10-07 Zi-Ke Zhang , Tao Zhou , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Most if not all on-line item-to-item recommendation systems rely on estimation of a distance like measure (rank) of similarity between items. For on-line recommendation systems, time sensitivity of this similarity measure is extremely…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Alexander Kushkuley , Joshua Correa

Sequential decision-making is desired to align with human intents and exhibit versatility across various tasks. Previous methods formulate it as a conditional generation process, utilizing return-conditioned diffusion models to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Xudong Yu , Chenjia Bai , Haoran He , Changhong Wang , Xuelong Li

Diffusion-based models have achieved notable empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressiveness in modeling complex distributions. Despite existing methods being promising, the key challenge of extending existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Dmitry Shribak , Chen-Xiao Gao , Yitong Li , Chenjun Xiao , Bo Dai

Data attribution seeks to trace model outputs back to training data. With the recent development of diffusion models, data attribution has become a desired module to properly assign valuations for high-quality or copyrighted training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Jing Jiang , Min Lin

Reference information plays an essential role for making decisions under uncertainty, yet may vary across multiple data sources. In this paper, we study resource allocation in stochastic dynamic environments, where we perform information…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Yanru Guo , Bo Zhou , Ruiwei Jiang , Xi , Yang , Siqian Shen

Session-based recommendation aims to predict the next item that anonymous users may be interested in, based on their current session interactions. Recent studies have demonstrated that retrieving neighbor sessions to augment the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yuhan Yang , Jie Zou , Guojia An , Jiwei Wei , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Direct preference optimization (DPO) methods have shown strong potential in aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preferences by training on paired comparisons. These methods improve training stability by avoiding the REINFORCE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yi-Lun Wu , Bo-Kai Ruan , Chiang Tseng , Hong-Han Shuai

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

Diffusion recommender systems achieve strong recommendation accuracy but often suffer from popularity bias, resulting in unequal item exposure. To address this shortcoming, we introduce A2G-DiffRec, a diffusion recommender that incorporates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Zihan Li , Gustavo Escobedo , Marta Moscati , Oleg Lesota , Markus Schedl

Recommender systems (RSs) are software tools and algorithms developed to alleviate the problem of information overload, which makes it difficult for a user to make right decisions. Two main paradigms toward the recommendation problem are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

Recommender systems have become an essential tool for providers and users of online services and goods, especially with the increased use of the Internet to access information and purchase products and services. This work proposes a novel…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Abdullah Alhadlaq , Said Kerrache , Hatim Aboalsamh

The KNN approach, which is widely used in recommender systems because of its efficiency, robustness and interpretability, is proposed for session-based recommendation recently and outperforms recurrent neural network models. It captures the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Feng Liu , Yuzhou Zhang