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An Item based recommender system works by computing a similarity between items, which can exploit past user interactions (collaborative filtering) or item features (content based filtering). Collaborative algorithms have been proven to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Alberto Gasparin , Paolo Cremonesi

Among various recommender techniques, collaborative filtering (CF) is the most successful one. And a key problem in CF is how to represent users and items. Previous works usually represent a user (an item) as a vector of latent factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Gongshan He , Dongxing Zhao , Lixin Ding

The application of machine learning techniques to large-scale personalized recommendation problems is a challenging task. Such systems must make sense of enormous amounts of implicit feedback in order to understand user preferences across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Thom Lake , Sinead A. Williamson , Alexander T. Hawk , Christopher C. Johnson , Benjamin P. Wing

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most commonly used recommendation methods. CF consists in predicting whether, or how much, a user will like (or dislike) an item by leveraging the knowledge of the user's preferences as well as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Esther Pacitti , Maximilien Servajean , Florent Masseglia , Amr El Abbadi

Recent research has explored using Large Language Models for recommendation tasks by transforming user interaction histories and item metadata into text prompts, then having the LLM produce rankings or recommendations. A promising approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bo Ma , LuYao Liu , Simon Lau , Chandler Yuan , and XueY Cui , Rosie Zhang

Learning vector representations (aka. embeddings) of users and items lies at the core of modern recommender systems. Ranging from early matrix factorization to recently emerged deep learning based methods, existing efforts typically obtain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He , Meng Wang , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Collaborative filtering is a popular technique to infer users' preferences on new content based on the collective information of all users preferences. Recommender systems then use this information to make personalized suggestions to users.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Ayan Sinha , David F. Gleich , Karthik Ramani

Conversational and question-based recommender systems have gained increasing attention in recent years, with users enabled to converse with the system and better control recommendations. Nevertheless, research in the field is still limited,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Jie Zou , Yifan Chen , Evangelos Kanoulas

Recommender systems are emerging technologies that nowadays can be found in many applications such as Amazon, Netflix, and so on. These systems help users to find relevant information, recommendations, and their preferred items. Slightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Nima Mirbakhsh , Charles X. Ling

Matrix factorization (MS) is a collaborative filtering (CF) based approach, which is widely used for recommendation systems (RS). In this research work, we deal with the content recommendation problem for users in a content management…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Debashish Roy , Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Abdullah Bin Nasser , Afdhal Azmi , Marzieh Babaeianjelodar

Recent studies empirically indicate that language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge beyond mere semantics, attracting significant attention across various fields. However, in the recommendation domain, it remains uncertain whether…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Leheng Sheng , An Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yuxin Chen , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Industry-scale recommendation systems have become a cornerstone of the e-commerce shopping experience. For Etsy, an online marketplace with over 50 million handmade and vintage items, users come to rely on personalized recommendations to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Xiaoting Zhao , Raphael Louca , Diane Hu , Liangjie Hong

Following recent successes in exploiting both latent factor and word embedding models in recommendation, we propose a novel Regularized Multi-Embedding (RME) based recommendation model that simultaneously encapsulates the following ideas…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Thanh Tran , Kyumin Lee , Yiming Liao , Dongwon Lee

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Matrix factorization is a key component of collaborative filtering-based recommendation systems because it allows us to complete sparse user-by-item ratings matrices under a low-rank assumption that encodes the belief that similar users…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-22 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Kush R. Varshney , Liu Yang

Content-based and collaborative filtering methods are the most successful solutions in recommender systems. Content based method is based on items attributes. This method checks the features of users favourite items and then proposes the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Niloofar Rastin , Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi

We present an item-based approach for collaborative filtering. We determine a list of recommended items for a user by considering their previous purchases. Additionally other features of the users could be considered such as page views,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-01-18 Fabrizio Caruso , Giovanni Giuffrida , Calogero Zarba

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a core technique for recommender systems. Traditional CF approaches exploit user-item relations (e.g., clicks, likes, and views) only and hence they suffer from the data sparsity issue. Items are usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Guangneng Hu

Many latent (factorized) models have been proposed for recommendation tasks like collaborative filtering and for ranking tasks like document or image retrieval and annotation. Common to all those methods is that during inference the items…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Jason Weston , John Blitzer

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu