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Recent advancements in explainable recommendation have greatly bolstered user experience by elucidating the decision-making rationale. However, the existing methods actually fail to provide effective feedback signals for potentially better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jiakai Tang , Jingsen Zhang , Zihang Tian , Xueyang Feng , Lei Wang , Xu Chen

Explainable Recommendation has been gaining attention over the last few years in industry and academia. Explanations provided along with recommendations in a recommender system framework have many uses: particularly reasoning why a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Prasant Mohapatra

Providing explanations within the recommendation system would boost user satisfaction and foster trust, especially by elaborating on the reasons for selecting recommended items tailored to the user. The predominant approach in this domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Yicui Peng , Hao Chen , Chingsheng Lin , Guo Huang , Jinrong Hu , Hui Guo , Bin Kong , Shu Hu , Xi Wu , Xin Wang

Matrix factorization (MF) is extensively used to mine the user preference from explicit ratings in recommender systems. However, the reliability of explicit ratings is not always consistent, because many factors may affect the user's final…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Zhipeng Wu , Hui Tian , Xuzhen Zhu , Shuo Wang

Recommender systems are essential information technologies today, and recommendation algorithms combined with deep learning have become a research hotspot in this field. The recommendation model known as LFM (Latent Factor Model), which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Junyi Liu

Explainable recommendation systems leverage transparent reasoning to foster user trust and improve decision-making processes. Current approaches typically decouple recommendation generation from explanation creation, violating causal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Guanrong Li , Haolin Yang , Xinyu Liu , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

Explaining to users why some items are recommended is critical, as it can help users to make better decisions, increase their satisfaction, and gain their trust in recommender systems (RS). However, existing explainable RS usually consider…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen

Explainable recommender systems are designed to elucidate the explanation behind each recommendation, enabling users to comprehend the underlying logic. Previous works perform rating prediction and explanation generation in a multi-task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shijie Liu , Ruixing Ding , Weihai Lu , Jun Wang , Mo Yu , Xiaoming Shi , Wei Zhang

Generating user-friendly explanations regarding why an item is recommended has become increasingly common, largely due to advances in language generation technology, which can enhance user trust and facilitate more informed decision-making…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Yucong Luo , Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Junyu Lu , Qi Liu , Enhong Chen

Recommending items to potentially interested users has been an important commercial task that faces two main challenges: accuracy and explainability. While most collaborative filtering models rely on statistical computations on a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Lei Pan , Von-Wun Soo

With the prevalence of deep learning based embedding approaches, recommender systems have become a proven and indispensable tool in various information filtering applications. However, many of them remain difficult to diagnose what aspects…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Yao Zhou , Haonan Wang , Jingrui He , Haixun Wang

Recommender systems are essential tools in the digital era, providing personalized content to users in areas like e-commerce, entertainment, and social media. Among the many approaches developed to create these systems, latent factor models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Hind I. Alshbanat , Hafida Benhidour , Said Kerrache

Recommender systems based on latent factor models have been effectively used for understanding user interests and predicting future actions. Such models work by projecting the users and items into a smaller dimensional space, thereby…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Bhargav Kanagal , Amr Ahmed , Sandeep Pandey , Vanja Josifovski , Jeff Yuan , Lluis Garcia-Pueyo

Explainable Recommender Systems is an important field of study which provides reasons behind the suggested recommendations. Explanations with recommender systems are useful for developers while debugging anomalies within the system and for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Prasant Mohapatra

Many machine learning systems utilize latent factors as internal representations for making predictions. Since these latent factors are largely uninterpreted, however, predictions made using them are opaque. Collaborative filtering via…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Anupam Datta , Sophia Kovaleva , Piotr Mardziel , Shayak Sen

The successful application of machine learning (ML) methods becomes increasingly dependent on their interpretability or explainability. Designing explainable ML systems is instrumental to ensuring transparency of automated decision-making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-04 L. Zhang , G. Karakasidis , A. Odnoblyudova , L. Dogruel , A. Jung

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted for recommendation by framing user preference modeling as a language generation problem. However, existing latent reasoning approaches typically represent user intent with a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tianqi Gao , Chengkai Huang , Zihan Wang , Cao Liu , Ke Zeng , Lina Yao

Explanations in Machine Learning come in many forms, but a consensus regarding their desired properties is yet to emerge. In this paper we introduce a taxonomy and a set of descriptors that can be used to characterise and systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Kacper Sokol , Peter Flach

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

Recommender systems are a kind of data filtering that guides the user to interesting and valuable resources within an extensive dataset. by providing suggestions of products that are expected to match their preferences. However, due to data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sajida Mhammedi , Hakim El Massari , Noreddine Gherabi , Amnai Mohamed