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Recommender systems typically represent users and items by learning their embeddings, which are usually set to uniform dimensions and dominate the model parameters. However, real-world recommender systems often operate in streaming…

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Recommender systems (RS), serving at the forefront of Human-centered AI, are widely deployed in almost every corner of the web and facilitate the human decision-making process. However, despite their enormous capabilities and potential, RS…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yingqiang Ge , Shuchang Liu , Zuohui Fu , Juntao Tan , Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Yunqi Li , Yikun Xian , Yongfeng Zhang

E-commerce recommendation systems aim to generate ordered lists of items for customers, optimizing multiple business objectives, such as clicks, conversions and Gross Merchandise Volume (GMV). Traditional multi-objective optimization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yue Meng , Cheng Guo , Yi Cao , Tong Liu , Bo Zheng

Food choices are personal and complex and have a significant impact on our long-term health and quality of life. By helping users to make informed and satisfying decisions, Recommender Systems (RS) have the potential to support users in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Mansura A. Khan , Ellen Rushe , Barry Smyth , David Coyle

The majority of existing recommender systems rely on user ratings, which are limited by the lack of user collaboration and the sparsity problem. To address these issues, this study proposes a behavior-based recommender system that leverages…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Reza Barzegar Nozari , Mahdi Divsalar , Sepehr Akbarzadeh Abkenar , Mohammadreza Fadavi Amiri , Ali Divsalar

Modern e-commerce platforms offer vast product selections, making it difficult for customers to find items that they like and that are relevant to their current session intent. This is why it is key for e-commerce platforms to have near…

Recommender systems (RSs) have become an inseparable part of our everyday lives. They help us find our favorite items to purchase, our friends on social networks, and our favorite movies to watch. Traditionally, the recommendation problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 M. Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

Building large-scale e-commerce recommendation systems requires addressing three key technical challenges: (1) designing a universal recommendation architecture across dozens of placements, (2) decreasing excessive maintenance costs, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Aleksandra Osowska-Kurczab , Klaudia Nazarko , Mateusz Marzec , Lidia Wojciechowska , Eliška Kremeňová

The growing ubiquity of Extended Reality (XR) is driving Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS) toward visually immersive experiences. We formalize this paradigm as Immersive CRS (ICRS), where recommended items are highlighted directly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiazhou Liang , Yifan Simon Liu , David Guo , Minqi Sun , Yilun Jiang , Scott Sanner

E-commerce recommender systems are becoming increasingly important in the current digital world. They are used to personalize user experience, help customers find what they need quickly and efficiently, and increase revenue for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Tanmayee Salunke , Unnati Nichite

Bundle recommendation approaches offer users a set of related items on a particular topic. The current state-of-the-art (SOTA) method utilizes contrastive learning to learn representations at both the bundle and item levels. However, due to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Xiaoyu Du , Kun Qian , Yunshan Ma , Xinguang Xiang

Information Retrieval (IR) systems used in search and recommendation platforms frequently employ Learning-to-Rank (LTR) models to rank items in response to user queries. These models heavily rely on features derived from user interactions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Randy Ardywibowo , Rakesh Sunki , Lucy Kuo , Sankalp Nayak

Recommender systems (RSs) have gained widespread applications across various domains owing to the superior ability to capture users' interests. However, the complexity and nuanced nature of users' interests, which span a wide range of…

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With the increasing scale of search engine marketing, designing an efficient bidding system is becoming paramount for the success of e-commerce companies. The critical challenges faced by a modern industrial-level bidding system include: 1.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Cheng Jie , Da Xu , Zigeng Wang , Lu Wang , Wei Shen

Nowadays, recommender systems and search engines play an integral role in fashion e-commerce. Still, many challenges lie ahead, and this study tries to tackle some. This article first suggests a content-based fashion recommender system that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Seyed Omid Mohammadi , Hossein Bodaghi , Ahmad Kalhor

Embedding-based neural retrieval (EBR) is an effective search retrieval method in product search for tackling the vocabulary gap between customer search queries and products. The initial launch of our EBR system at Walmart yielded…

Capturing users' precise preferences is a fundamental problem in large-scale recommender system. Currently, item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are common matching approaches in industry. However, they are not effective to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Fuyu Lv , Taiwei Jin , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Wilfred Ng

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) are widely employed to model user behavior over time. However, their robustness in the face of perturbations in training data remains a largely understudied yet critical issue. A fundamental challenge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Filippo Betello , Federico Siciliano , Pushkar Mishra , Fabrizio Silvestri

Recommender systems can be formulated as a matrix completion problem, predicting ratings from user and item parameter vectors. Optimizing these parameters by subsampling data becomes difficult as the number of users and items grows. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Elias Tragas , Calvin Luo , Maxime Gazeau , Kevin Luk , David Duvenaud

Tencent Weibo, as one of the most popular micro-blogging services in China, has attracted millions of users, producing 30-60 millions of weibo (similar as tweet in Twitter) daily. With the overload problem of user generate content, Tencent…

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