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Recommender systems have seen significant advancements with the influence of deep learning and graph neural networks, particularly in capturing complex user-item relationships. However, these graph-based recommenders heavily depend on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Xubin Ren , Wei Wei , Lianghao Xia , Lixin Su , Suqi Cheng , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin , Chao Huang

In this work, we introduce a new method for imitation learning from video demonstrations. Our method, Relational Mimic (RM), improves on previous visual imitation learning methods by combining generative adversarial networks and relational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Lionel Blondé , Yichuan Charlie Tang , Jian Zhang , Russ Webb

Collaborative information from user-item interactions is a fundamental source of signal in successful recommender systems. Recently, researchers have attempted to incorporate this knowledge into large language model-based recommender…

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Personalized recommender systems play a crucial role in capturing users' evolving preferences over time to provide accurate and effective recommendations on various online platforms. However, many recommendation models rely on a single type…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Wei Wei , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Recommendation models are predominantly trained using implicit user feedback, since explicit feedback is often costly to obtain. However, implicit feedback, such as clicks, does not always reflect users' real preferences. For example, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mengchen Zhao , Yifan Gao , Yaqing Hou , Xiangyang Li , Pengjie Gu , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Yi Cai

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS), which model a user's interaction history to predict the next item of interest, are widely used in various applications. However, existing SRS often struggle with low-popularity items, a challenge known…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Wanyu Wang , Yejing Wang , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng

This paper studies the item-to-item recommendation problem in recommender systems from a new perspective of metric learning via implicit feedback. We develop and investigate a personalizable deep metric model that captures both the internal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Trong Nghia Hoang , Anoop Deoras , Tong Zhao , Jin Li , George Karypis

The state-of-the-art online learning approaches are only capable of learning the metric for predefined tasks. In this paper, we consider lifelong learning problem to mimic "human learning", i.e., endowing a new capability to the learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Gan Sun , Yang Cong , Ji Liu , Xiaowei Xu

Recent agent-based recommendation frameworks aim to simulate user behaviors by incorporating memory mechanisms and prompting strategies, but they struggle with hallucinating non-existent items and full-catalog ranking. Besides, a largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Mingdai Yang , Nurendra Choudhary , Jiangshu Du , Edward W. Huang , Philip S. Yu , Karthik Subbian , Danai Koutra

Knowledge Tracing (KT) models students' evolving knowledge states to predict future performance, serving as a foundation for personalized education. While traditional deep learning models achieve high accuracy, they often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Runze Li , Kedi Chen , Guwei Feng , Mo Yu , Jun Wang , Wei Zhang

In this paper we address the problem of modeling relational data, which appear in many applications such as social network analysis, recommender systems and bioinformatics. Previous studies either consider latent feature based models but…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sheng Gao , Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

Metric-based few-shot learning methods concentrate on learning transferable feature embedding that generalizes well from seen categories to unseen categories under the supervision of limited number of labelled instances. However, most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Jun He , Richang Hong , Xueliang Liu , Mingliang Xu , Zhengjun Zha , Meng Wang

Learning-to-rank (LTR) algorithms are ubiquitous and necessary to explore the extensive catalogs of media providers. To avoid the user examining all the results, its preferences are used to provide a subset of relatively small size. The…

Sequential recommendation is to predict the next item of interest for a user, based on her/his interaction history with previous items. In conventional sequential recommenders, a common approach is to model item sequences using discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Zhengyi Yang , Jiancan Wu , Yanchen Luo , Jizhi Zhang , Yancheng Yuan , An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in open-ended dialogue, yet their inability to retain and retrieve relevant information from long-term interactions limits their effectiveness in applications requiring sustained…

Interactive assessments generate sequential process data that are not well handled by conventional item response models. Existing MDP-based measurement approaches, such as the Markov decision process measurement model (MDP-MM, LaMar, 2018),…

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The long-tail recommendation is a challenging task for traditional recommender systems, due to data sparsity and data imbalance issues. The recent development of large language models (LLMs) has shown their abilities in complex reasoning,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Junda Wu , Cheng-Chun Chang , Tong Yu , Zhankui He , Jianing Wang , Yupeng Hou , Julian McAuley

Recently, recommender systems have been able to emit substantially improved recommendations by leveraging user-provided reviews. Existing methods typically merge all reviews of a given user or item into a long document, and then process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Xin Dong , Jingchao Ni , Wei Cheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Bo Zong , Dongjin Song , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen , Gerard de Melo

In sequential recommendation, models recommend items based on user's interaction history. To this end, current models usually incorporate information such as item descriptions and user intent or preferences. User preferences are usually not…

Memory-based neural networks model temporal data by leveraging an ability to remember information for long periods. It is unclear, however, whether they also have an ability to perform complex relational reasoning with the information they…