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In this paper, we develop a recommender system for a game that suggests potential items to players based on their interactive behaviors to maximize revenue for the game provider. Our approach is built on a reinforcement learning-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Hung Nguyen , Minh Nguyen , Long Pham , Jennifer Adorno Nieves

An ultimate goal of recommender systems (RS) is to improve user engagement. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising paradigm for this goal, as it directly optimizes overall performance of sequential recommendation. However, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Guoxi Zhang , Xing Yao , Xuanji Xiao

In e-commerce, where users face a vast array of possible item choices, recommender systems are vital for helping them discover suitable items they might otherwise overlook. While many recommender systems primarily rely on a user's purchase…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kyungho Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Geon Lee , Kijung Shin

Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems grew out of information retrieval and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Saverio Perugini , Marcos Andre Goncalves , Edward A. Fox

Video-game players generate huge amounts of data, as everything they do within a game is recorded. In particular, among all the stored actions and behaviors, there is information on the in-game purchases of virtual products. Such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-29 Paul Bertens , Anna Guitart , Pei Pei Chen , África Periáñez

Deep reinforcement learning enables an agent to capture user's interest through interactions with the environment dynamically. It has attracted great interest in the recommendation research. Deep reinforcement learning uses a reward…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Xianzhi Wang , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

State-of-the-art recommendation algorithms -- especially the collaborative filtering (CF) based approaches with shallow or deep models -- usually work with various unstructured information sources for recommendation, such as textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yongfeng Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Xu Chen , Pengfei Wang

E-commerce businesses employ recommender models to assist in identifying a personalized set of products for each visitor. To accurately assess the recommendations' influence on customer clicks and buys, three target areas -- customer…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Namrata Chaudhary , Drimik Roy Chowdhury

Interactive recommender systems can dynamically adapt to user feedback, but often suffer from content homogeneity and filter bubble effects due to overfitting short-term user preferences. While recent efforts aim to improve content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chongjun Xia , Yanchun Peng , Xianzhi Wang

Complementary product recommendation is a powerful strategy to improve customer experience and retail sales. However, recommending the right product is not a simple task because of the noisy and sparse nature of user-item interactions. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Leandro Anghinoni , Pablo Zivic , Jorge Adrian Sanchez

Similar product recommendation is one of the most common scenes in e-commerce. Many recommendation algorithms such as item-to-item Collaborative Filtering are working on measuring item similarities. In this paper, we introduce our real-time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhi Liu , Yan Huang , Jing Gao , Li Chen , Dong Li

Recommender systems serve as foundational infrastructure in modern information ecosystems, helping users navigate digital content and discover items aligned with their preferences. At their core, recommender systems address a fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Min Hou , Le Wu , Yuxin Liao , Yonghui Yang , Zhen Zhang , Yu Wang , Changlong Zheng , Han Wu , Richang Hong

We propose a reinforcement learning-based approach to optimize conversational strategies for product recommendation across diverse industries. As organizations increasingly adopt intelligent agents to support sales and service operations,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kang Liu

Ubiquitous personalized recommender systems are built to achieve two seemingly conflicting goals, to serve high quality content tailored to individual user's taste and to adapt quickly to the ever changing environment. The former requires a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Yunbo Ouyang , Jun Shi , Haichao Wei , Huiji Gao

Recommender systems are effective tools for mitigating information overload and have seen extensive applications across various domains. However, the single focus on utility goals proves to be inadequate in addressing real-world concerns,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yuying Zhao , Yu Wang , Yunchao Liu , Xueqi Cheng , Charu Aggarwal , Tyler Derr

Recommending a sequence of activities for an ongoing case requires that the recommendations conform to the underlying business process and meet the performance goal of either completion time or process outcome. Existing work on next…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Prerna Agarwal , Avani Gupta , Renuka Sindhgatta , Sampath Dechu

Recommender systems are expected to be assistants that help human users find relevant information automatically without explicit queries. As recommender systems evolve, increasingly sophisticated learning techniques are applied and have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhengbang Zhu , Rongjun Qin , Junjie Huang , Xinyi Dai , Yang Yu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

When a user connects to the Internet to fulfill his needs, he often encounters a huge amount of related information. Recommender systems are the techniques for massively filtering information and offering the items that users find them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Mahdi Kherad , Amir Jalaly Bidgoly

Group recommender systems aim to generate recommendations that align with the collective preferences of a group, introducing challenges that differ significantly from those in individual recommendation scenarios. This paper presents Joint…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ngoc Luyen Le , Marie-Hélène Abel

We are constantly using recommender systems, often without even noticing. They build a profile of our person in order to recommend the content we will most likely be interested in. The data representing the users, their interactions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Thomas Ranvier , Kilian Bourhis , Khalid Benabdeslem , Bruno Canitia