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The abundance of information in web applications make recommendation essential for users as well as applications. Despite the effectiveness of existing recommender systems, we find two major limitations that reduce their overall…

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A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currently, the predominant approach to preference elicitation is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski

Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in recommender systems, whose objective is to provide personalized item suggestions to potential users based on their purchase or browsing history. However, personalized recommendations require…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Osama Alshareet , A. Ben Hamza

Collaborative filtering (CF), as a fundamental approach for recommender systems, is usually built on the latent factor model with learnable parameters to predict users' preferences towards items. However, designing a proper CF model for a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Chen Gao , Quanming Yao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Recommender systems leverage extensive user interaction data to model preferences; however, directly modeling these data may introduce biases that disproportionately favor popular items. In this paper, we demonstrate that popularity bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Tun Lu , Li Shang , Ning Gu

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

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

User and item attributes are essential side-information; their interactions (i.e., their co-occurrence in the sample data) can significantly enhance prediction accuracy in various recommender systems. We identify two different types of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yixin Su , Rui Zhang , Sarah Erfani , Junhao Gan

Latent factor collaborative filtering (CF) has been a widely used technique for recommender system by learning the semantic representations of users and items. Recently, explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Deng Pan , Xiangrui Li , Xin Li , Dongxiao Zhu

Recommender systems are a subset of information filtering systems designed to predict and suggest items that users may find interesting or relevant based on their preferences, behaviors, or interactions. By analyzing user data such as past…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mahamudul Hasan

Faceted browsing is a commonly supported feature of user interfaces for access to information. Existing interfaces generally treat facet values selected by a user as hard filters and respond to the user by only displaying information items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Yinan Zhang , Parikshit Sondhi , Anjan Goswami , ChengXiang Zhai

We describe CFW, a computationally efficient algorithm for collaborative filtering that uses posteriors over weights of evidence. In experiments on real data, we show that this method predicts as well or better than other methods in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-19 Carl Kadie , Christopher Meek , David Heckerman

Industrial recommendation systems are typically composed of multiple stages, including retrieval, ranking, and blending. The retrieval stage plays a critical role in generating a high-recall set of candidate items that covers a wide range…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhibo Fan , Hongtao Lin , Haoyu Chen , Bowen Deng , Hedi Xia , Yuke Yan , James Li

Albeit the implicit feedback based recommendation problem - when only the user history is available but there are no ratings - is the most typical setting in real-world applications, it is much less researched than the explicit feedback…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-01 Balázs Hidasi , Domonkos Tikk

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully used to provide users with personalized products and services. However, dealing with the increasing sparseness of user-item matrix still remains a challenge. To tackle such issue, hybrid CF…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu

The goal of recommender systems is to help users find useful items from a large catalog of items by producing a list of item recommendations for every user. Data sets based on implicit data collection have a number of special…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Markus Viljanen , Tapio Pahikkala

Recommender systems require their recommendation algorithms to be accurate, scalable and should handle very sparse training data which keep changing over time. Inspired by ant colony optimization, we propose a novel collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Yongji Wang , Xiaofeng Liao , Hu Wu , Jingzheng Wu

Matrix factorization techniques have been widely used as a method for collaborative filtering for recommender systems. In recent times, different variants of deep learning algorithms have been explored in this setting to improve the task of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Vaibhav Krishna , Tian Guo , Nino Antulov-Fantulin

Many bipartite networks describe systems where an edge represents a relation between a user and an item. Measuring the similarity between either users or items is the basis of memory-based collaborative filtering, a widely used method to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Giambattista Albora , Lavinia Rossi-Mori , Andrea Zaccaria

Online streaming services have become the most popular way of listening to music. The majority of these services are endowed with recommendation mechanisms that help users to discover songs and artists that may interest them from the vast…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Diego Sánchez-Moreno , Yong Zheng , María N. Moreno-García