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In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), a user can provide feedback on recommended items at each interaction turn, leading the CRS towards more desirable recommendations. Currently, different types of CRS offer various possibilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Maria Vlachou , Craig Macdonald

Personalized recommendation is ubiquitous, playing an important role in many online services. Substantial research has been dedicated to learning vector representations of users and items with the goal of predicting a user's preference for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianing Sun , Yingxue Zhang , Chen Ma , Mark Coates , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He

Probabilistic models can learn users' preferences from the history of their item adoptions on a social media site, and in turn, recommend new items to users based on learned preferences. However, current models ignore psychological factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-11-07 Jeon-Hyung Kang , Kristina Lerman

Recently, graph collaborative filtering methods have been proposed as an effective recommendation approach, which can capture users' preference over items by modeling the user-item interaction graphs. In order to reduce the influence of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Zihan Lin , Changxin Tian , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao

For recommender systems in internet platforms, search activities provide additional insights into user interest through query-click interactions with items, and are thus widely used for enhancing personalized recommendation. However, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jiajun Cui , Xu Chen , Shuai Xiao , Chen Ju , Jinsong Lan , Qingwen Liu , Wei Zhang

Our objective is to develop compact video representations that are sensitive to visual change over time. To measure such time-sensitivity, we introduce a new task: chiral action recognition, where one needs to distinguish between a pair of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Piyush Bagad , Andrew Zisserman

Large language model-empowered agentic recommender systems (ARS) reformulate recommendation as a multi-turn interaction between a recommender agent and a user agent, enabling iterative preference elicitation and refinement beyond…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Shazia Sadiq , Tianrui Li

User-item interaction histories are pivotal for sequential recommendation systems but often include noise, such as unintended clicks or actions that fail to reflect genuine user preferences. To address this, we propose Learned Item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haidong Xin , Zhenghao Liu , Sen Mei , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Shuo Wang , Zulong Chen , Yu Gu , Ge Yu , Chenyan Xiong

Visually-aware recommendation on E-commerce platforms aims to leverage visual information of items to predict a user's preference. It is commonly observed that user's attention to visual features does not always reflect the real preference.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Ruihong Qiu , Sen Wang , Zhi Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Zi Huang

With the rapid development of mobile apps, the availability of a large number of mobile apps in application stores brings challenge to locate appropriate apps for users. Providing accurate mobile app recommendation for users becomes an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-13 Tingting Liang , Lifang He , Chun-Ta Lu , Liang Chen , Philip S. Yu , Jian Wu

Recommender systems often struggle with data sparsity and cold-start scenarios, limiting their ability to provide accurate suggestions for new or infrequent users. This paper presents a Graph Attention Network (GAT) based Collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Danial Ebrat , Sepideh Ahmadian , Luis Rueda

The goal of one-class collaborative filtering (OCCF) is to identify the user-item pairs that are positively-related but have not been interacted yet, where only a small portion of positive user-item interactions (e.g., users' implicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Dongha Lee , SeongKu Kang , Hyunjun Ju , Chanyoung Park , Hwanjo Yu

Traditional recommendation systems rely on past usage data in order to generate new recommendations. Those approaches fail to generate sensible recommendations for new users and items into the system due to missing information about their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ivica Obadić , Gjorgji Madjarov , Ivica Dimitrovski , Dejan Gjorgjevikj

Embedding models, which learn latent representations of users and items based on user-item interaction patterns, are a key component of recommendation systems. In many applications, contextual constraints need to be applied to refine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Syrine Krichene , Mike Gartrell , Clement Calauzenes

Causal representation learning (CRL) and traditional representation learning have largely developed along different trajectories. Traditional representation learning has been driven mainly by applications and empirical objectives, whereas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Yan Li , Yuewen Sun , Shaoan Xie , Gongxu Luo , Yunlong Deng , Kun Zhang , Guangyi Chen

Artwork recommendation is challenging because it requires understanding how users interact with highly subjective content, the complexity of the concepts embedded within the artwork, and the emotional and cognitive reflections they may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Bereket A. Yilma , Luis A. Leiva

Many Deep Learning approaches solve complicated classification and regression problems by hierarchically constructing complex features from the raw input data. Although a few works have investigated the application of deep neural networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Arash Khoeini , Saman Haratizadeh , Ehsan Hoseinzade

Disentangled representation has been widely explored in many fields due to its maximal compactness, interpretability and versatility. Recommendation system also needs disentanglement to make representation more explainable and general for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Weiguang Chen , Wenjun Jiang , Xueqi Li , Kenli Li , Albert Zomaya , Guojun Wang

One of the main challenges in recommender systems is data sparsity which leads to high variance. Several attempts have been made to improve the bias-variance trade-off using auxiliary information. In particular, document modeling-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Meysam Varasteh , Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Ahmad Kalhor

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have been widely adopted to mitigate data sparsity and address cold-start issues in recommender systems. While existing KGs-based recommendation methods can predict user preferences and demands, they fall short in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shangfei Zheng , Hongzhi Yin , Tong Chen , Xiangjie Kong , Jian Hou , Pengpeng Zhao