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Recommender systems (RSs) have been a widely exploited approach to solving the information overload problem. However, the performance is still limited due to the extreme sparsity of the rating data. With the popularity of Web 2.0, the…

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Agentic recommendations cast recommenders as large language model (LLM) agents that can plan, reason, use tools, and interact with users of varying preferences in web applications. However, most existing agentic recommender systems focus on…

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Existing item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) methods leverage only the relation of collaborative similarity. Nevertheless, there exist multiple relations between items in real-world scenarios. Distinct from the collaborative similarity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Xin Xin , Xiangnan He , Yongfeng Zhang , Yongdong Zhang , Joemon Jose

Personalized review-based rating prediction aims at leveraging existing reviews to model user interests and item characteristics for rating prediction. Most of the existing studies mainly encounter two issues. First, the rich knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Quanxiu Wang , Xinlei Cao , Jianyong Wang , Wei Zhang

Recommendation systems aim to provide personalized predictions by identifying items that are most appealing to individual users. Among various recommendation approaches, k-nearest-neighbor (kNN)-based collaborative filtering (CF) remains…

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The performance of a Collaborative Filtering (CF) method is based on the properties of a User-Item Rating Matrix (URM). And the properties or Rating Data Characteristics (RDC) of a URM are constantly changing. Recent studies significantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Samin Poudel , Marwan Bikdash

Recently, there has been an emergence of employing LLM-powered agents as believable human proxies, based on their remarkable decision-making capability. However, existing studies mainly focus on simulating human dialogue. Human non-verbal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Zhang , Yupeng Hou , Ruobing Xie , Wenqi Sun , Julian McAuley , Wayne Xin Zhao , Leyu Lin , Ji-Rong Wen

The interactions of users and items in recommender system could be naturally modeled as a user-item bipartite graph. In recent years, we have witnessed an emerging research effort in exploring user-item graph for collaborative filtering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Xiao Wang , Ruijia Wang , Chuan Shi , Guojie Song , Qingyong Li

Collaborative filtering is the simplest but oldest machine learning algorithm in the field of recommender systems. In spite of its long history, it remains a discussion topic in research venues. Usually people use users/items whose…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Hao Wang

Collaborative Filtering (CF) has become the standard approach to solve recommendation systems (RS) problems. Collaborative Filtering algorithms try to make predictions about interests of a user by collecting the personal interests from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Tomas Sousa-Pereira , Tiago Cunha , Carlos Soares

Neighborhood-based recommenders are a major class of Collaborative Filtering (CF) models. The intuition is to exploit neighbors with similar preferences for bridging unseen user-item pairs and alleviating data sparseness. Many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Jingwei Ma , Jiahui Wen , Panpan Zhang , Guangda Zhang , Xue Li

Every day, a significant number of users visit the internet for different needs. The owners of a website generate profits from the user interaction with the contents or items of the website. A robust recommendation system can increase user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Abdullah Al Munem , Sumona Yeasmin , Mohammad Rezwanul Huq

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have recently enabled a popular class of algorithms for collaborative filtering (CF). Nevertheless, the theoretical underpinnings of their empirical successes remain elusive. In this paper, we endeavor to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yifei Shen , Yongji Wu , Yao Zhang , Caihua Shan , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Dongsheng Li

In recommender systems, various latent confounding factors (e.g., user social environment and item public attractiveness) can affect user behavior, item exposure, and feedback in distinct ways. These factors may directly or indirectly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhirong Huang , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Guixian Zhang

State-of-the-art music recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering, which builds upon learning similarities between users and songs from the available listening data. These approaches inherently face the cold-start problem, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Paul Magron , Cédric Févotte

Recommendation systems often rely on point-wise loss metrics such as the mean squared error. However, in real recommendation settings only few items are presented to a user. This observation has recently encouraged the use of rank-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-05 Phong Nguyen , Jun Wang , Alexandros Kalousis

As user behavior data becomes increasingly scattered across different platforms, achieving cross-domain knowledge fusion while preserving privacy has become a critical issue in recommender systems. Existing PPCDR methods usually rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Lei Guo , Ting Yang , Xu Yu , Xiaohui Han , Guiyuan Jiang , Hui Liu

Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to extract the preference from the user's historical interactions across various domains. Despite some progress in CDSR, two problems set the barrier for further advancements, i.e., overlap…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Qidong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yejing Wang , Zijian Zhang , Howard Zhong , Chong Chen , Xiang Li , Wei Huang , Feng Tian

This work explores the ability of collective matrix factorization models in recommender systems to make predictions about users and items for which there is side information available but no feedback or interactions data, and proposes a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-17 David Cortes

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…

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