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This paper provides a theoretical analysis of a new learning problem for recommender systems where users provide feedback by comparing pairs of items instead of rating them individually. We assume that comparisons stem from latent user and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Suryanarayana Sankagiri , Jalal Etesami , Matthias Grossglauser

Collaborative recommendation is an information-filtering technique that attempts to present information items (movies, music, books, news, images, Web pages, etc.) that are likely of interest to the Internet user. Traditionally,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-10-14 Gérard Biau , Benoit Cadre , Laurent Rouvière

Collaborative filtering (CF) is widely used to learn informative latent representations of users and items from observed interactions. Existing CF-based methods commonly adopt negative sampling to discriminate different items. Training with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xin Zhou , Aixin Sun , Yong Liu , Jie Zhang , Chunyan Miao

Even in times of deep learning, low-rank approximations by factorizing a matrix into user and item latent factors continue to be a method of choice for collaborative filtering tasks due to their great performance. While deep learning based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Marcel Kurovski , Florian Wilhelm

Collaborative filtering (CF) aims to predict users' ratings on items according to historical user-item preference data. In many real-world applications, preference data are usually sparse, which would make models overfit and fail to give…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Zhongqi Lu , Erheng Zhong , Lili Zhao , Wei Xiang , Weike Pan , Qiang Yang

In this paper we examine the effect of applying ensemble learning to the performance of collaborative filtering methods. We present several systematic approaches for generating an ensemble of collaborative filtering models based on a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Ariel Bar , Lior Rokach , Guy Shani , Bracha Shapira , Alon Schclar

Recommendation models can effectively estimate underlying user interests and predict one's future behaviors by factorizing an observed user-item rating matrix into products of two sets of latent factors. However, the user-specific embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qitian Wu , Hengrui Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

There is a neglected fact in the traditional machine learning methods that the data sampling can actually lead to the solution sampling. We consider this observation to be important because having the solution sampling available makes the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Shangzhen Luan , Baochang Zhang , Jungong Han , Chen Chen , Ling Shao , Alessandro Perina , Linlin Shen

A key challenge of the collaborative filtering (CF) information filtering is how to obtain the reliable and accurate results with the help of peers' recommendation. Since the similarities from small-degree users to large-degree users would…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Qiang Guo , Wen-Jun Song , Jian-Guo Liu

We consider the online one-class collaborative filtering (CF) problem that consists of recommending items to users over time in an online fashion based on positive ratings only. This problem arises when users respond only occasionally to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Reinhard Heckel , Kannan Ramchandran

In recent years, neural networks and other complex models have dominated recommender systems, often setting new benchmarks for state-of-the-art performance. Yet, despite these advancements, award-winning research has demonstrated that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Pedro R. Pires , Rafael T. Sereicikas , Gregorio F. Azevedo , Tiago A. Almeida

Current content filtering and blocking methods are susceptible to various circumvention techniques and are relatively slow in dealing with new threats. This is due to these methods using shallow pattern recognition that is based on regular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Mohammad Ismail Daud

Recommendation systems often use online collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms to identify items a given user likes over time, based on ratings that this user and a large number of other users have provided in the past. This problem has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Wasim Huleihel , Soumyabrata Pal , Ofer Shayevitz

Nowadays, news apps have taken over the popularity of paper-based media, providing a great opportunity for personalization. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based sequential recommendation is a popular approach that utilizes users' recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Bing Bai , Guanhua Zhang , Ye Lin , Hao Li , Kun Bai , Bo Luo

Content-aware recommendation approaches are essential for providing meaningful recommendations for \textit{new} (i.e., \textit{cold-start}) items in a recommender system. We present a content-aware neural hashing-based collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Casper Hansen , Christian Hansen , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Stephen Alstrup , Christina Lioma

This paper proposes implicit CF-NADE, a neural autoregressive model for collaborative filtering tasks using implicit feedback ( e.g. click, watch, browse behaviors). We first convert a users implicit feedback into a like vector and a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-14 Yin Zheng , Cailiang Liu , Bangsheng Tang , Hanning Zhou

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

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

Recommender systems based on collaborative filtering play a vital role in many E-commerce applications as they guide the user in finding their items of interest based on the user's past transactions and feedback of other similar customers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni , Arun K Pujari , Vineet Padmanabhan , Vikas Kumar

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