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Social recommendation aims to fuse social links with user-item interactions to alleviate the cold-start problem for rating prediction. Recent developments of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) motivate endeavors to design GNN-based social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Yingtong Dou , Jing Ma , Philip S. Yu

Most of the existing recommender systems use the ratings provided by users on individual items. An additional source of preference information is to use the ratings that users provide on sets of items. The advantages of using preferences on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Mohit Sharma , F. Maxwell Harper , George Karypis

Recommender systems are used in many different applications and contexts, however their main goal can always be summarised as "connecting relevant content to interested users". Personalized recommendation algorithms achieve this goal by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Joey De Pauw , Koen Ruymbeek , Bart Goethals

This paper studies recommender systems with knowledge graphs, which can effectively address the problems of data sparsity and cold start. Recently, a variety of methods have been developed for this problem, which generally try to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Weiping Song , Zhijian Duan , Ziqing Yang , Hao Zhu , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Incorporating knowledge graph into recommender systems has attracted increasing attention in recent years. By exploring the interlinks within a knowledge graph, the connectivity between users and items can be discovered as paths, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Xiang Wang , Dingxian Wang , Canran Xu , Xiangnan He , Yixin Cao , Tat-Seng Chua

With over 500 million tweets posted per day, in Twitter, it is difficult for Twitter users to discover interesting content from the deluge of uninteresting posts. In this work, we present a novel, explainable, topical recommendation system,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Parantapa Bhattacharya , Saptarshi Ghosh , Muhammad Bilal Zafar , Soumya K. Ghosh , Niloy Ganguly

Nowadays, recommender systems are present in many daily activities such as online shopping, browsing social networks, etc. Given the rising demand for reinvigoration of the tourist industry through information technology, recommenders have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-29 Alan Menk , Laura Sebastia , Rebeca Ferreira

Social recommendation system is to predict unobserved user-item rating values by taking advantage of user-user social relation and user-item ratings. However, user/item diversities in social recommendations are not well utilized in the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Dongsheng Luo , Yuchen Bian , Xiang Zhang , Jun Huan

As recommendation is essentially a comparative (or ranking) process, a good explanation should illustrate to users why an item is believed to be better than another, i.e., comparative explanations about the recommended items. Ideally, after…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aobo Yang , Nan Wang , Renqin Cai , Hongbo Deng , Hongning Wang

Explainability and effectiveness are two key aspects for building recommender systems. Prior efforts mostly focus on incorporating side information to achieve better recommendation performance. However, these methods have some weaknesses:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang , Yue Cao , Woojeong , Jin , Chenyang Wang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma , Xiang Ren

Explainability of recommender systems has become essential to ensure users' trust and satisfaction. Various types of explainable recommender systems have been proposed including explainable graph-based recommender systems. This review paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Thanet Markchom , Huizhi Liang , James Ferryman

Online communities such as Facebook and Twitter are enormously popular and have become an essential part of the daily life of many of their users. Through these platforms, users can discover and create information that others will then…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Weiping Song , Zhiping Xiao , Yifan Wang , Laurent Charlin , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

AI based social media recommendations have great potential to improve the user experience. However, often these recommendations do not match the user interest and create an unpleasant experience for the users. Moreover, the recommendation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 AKM Bahalul Haque , A. K. M. Najmul Islam , Patrick Mikalef

Information technology has spread widely, and extraordinarily large amounts of data have been made accessible to users, which has made it challenging to select data that are in accordance with user needs. For the resolution of the above…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Saman Forouzandeh , Mehrdad Rostami , Kamal Berahmand

In many social networks, several different link relations will exist between the same set of users. Additionally, attribute or textual information will be associated with those users, such as demographic details or user-generated content.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-02-19 Derek Greene , Pádraig Cunningham

Graph Neural Networks have been extensively applied in the field of machine learning to find features of graphs, and recommendation systems are no exception. The ratings of users on considered items can be represented by graphs which are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Tin T. Tran , V. Snasel

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Dilruk Perera , Roger Zimmermann

Explainable recommendation is an important task. Many methods have been proposed which generate explanations from the content and reviews written for items. When review text is unavailable, generating explanations is still a hard problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Rose Catherine , Kathryn Mazaitis , Maxine Eskenazi , William Cohen

With the arrival of the big data era, recommendation system has been a hot technology for enterprises to streamline their sales. Recommendation algorithms for individual users have been extensively studied over the past decade. Most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Xu Jiacheng

Nowadays, research into personalization has been focusing on explainability and fairness. Several approaches proposed in recent works are able to explain individual recommendations in a post-hoc manner or by explanation paths. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Giacomo Medda , Francesco Fabbri , Mirko Marras , Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu