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The Explainable Recommendation task is designed to receive a pair of user and item and output explanations to justify why an item is recommended to a user. Many models approach review generation as a proxy for explainable recommendations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ching-Wen Yang , Zhi-Quan Feng , Ying-Jia Lin , Che-Wei Chen , Kun-da Wu , Hao Xu , Jui-Feng Yao , Hung-Yu Kao

We tackle the problem of building explainable recommendation systems that are based on a per-user decision tree, with decision rules that are based on single attribute values. We build the trees by applying learned regression functions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Eyal Shulman , Lior Wolf

Explainability and effectiveness are two key aspects for building recommender systems. Prior efforts mostly focus on incorporating side information to achieve better recommendation performance. However, these methods have some weaknesses:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang , Yue Cao , Woojeong , Jin , Chenyang Wang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma , Xiang Ren

State-of-the-art recommender system (RS) mostly rely on complex deep neural network (DNN) model structure, which makes it difficult to provide explanations along with RS decisions. Previous researchers have proved that providing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Zhichao Xu , Yi Han , Tao Yang , Anh Tran , Qingyao Ai

An important task for recommender system is to generate explanations according to a user's preferences. Most of the current methods for explainable recommendations use structured sentences to provide descriptions along with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-07 Felipe Costa , Sixun Ouyang , Peter Dolog , Aonghus Lawlor

Explanations accompanied by a recommendation can assist users in understanding the decision made by recommendation systems, which in turn increases a user's confidence and trust in the system. Recently, research has focused on generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Anthony Colas , Jun Araki , Zhengyu Zhou , Bingqing Wang , Zhe Feng

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely used and effective technique for recommender systems. In recent decades, there have been significant advancements in latent embedding-based CF methods for improved accuracy, such as matrix…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yuntao Du , Jianxun Lian , Jing Yao , Xiting Wang , Mingqi Wu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Xing Xie

Item ranking systems support users in multi-criteria decision-making tasks. Users need to trust rankings and ranking algorithms to reflect user preferences nicely while avoiding systematic errors and biases. However, today only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I. Al Hazwani , J. Schmid , M. Sachdeva , J. Bernard

This study explores the development of an explainable music recommendation system with enhanced user control. Leveraging a hybrid of collaborative filtering and content-based filtering, we address the challenges of opaque recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Abhinav Arun , Mehul Soni , Palash Choudhary , Saksham Arora

Images account for a significant part of user decisions in many application scenarios, such as product images in e-commerce, or user image posts in social networks. It is intuitive that user preferences on the visual patterns of image…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongteng Xu , Yixin Cao , Zheng Qin , Hongyuan Zha

Explainable recommender systems can explain their recommendation decisions, enhancing user trust in the systems. Most explainable recommender systems either rely on human-annotated rationales to train models for explanation generation or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Menghan Wang , Kun Zhang , Yulan He

The growing attention to artificial intelligence-based applications has led to research interest in explainability issues. This emerging research attention on explainable AI (XAI) advocates the need to investigate end user-centric…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-07 AKM Bahalul Haque , A. K. M. Najmul Islam , Patrick Mikalef

Explainable Recommendation has been gaining attention over the last few years in industry and academia. Explanations provided along with recommendations in a recommender system framework have many uses: particularly reasoning why a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Prasant Mohapatra

Explainable recommender systems are designed to elucidate the explanation behind each recommendation, enabling users to comprehend the underlying logic. Previous works perform rating prediction and explanation generation in a multi-task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shijie Liu , Ruixing Ding , Weihai Lu , Jun Wang , Mo Yu , Xiaoming Shi , Wei Zhang

Recommender systems improve access to relevant products and information by making personalized suggestions based on previous examples of a user's likes and dislikes. Most existing recommender systems use social filtering methods that base…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raymond J. Mooney , Loriene Roy

Explainable recommendation is an important task. Many methods have been proposed which generate explanations from the content and reviews written for items. When review text is unavailable, generating explanations is still a hard problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Rose Catherine , Kathryn Mazaitis , Maxine Eskenazi , William Cohen

Explanations in a recommender system assist users in making informed decisions among a set of recommended items. Great research attention has been devoted to generating natural language explanations to depict how the recommendations are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Peng Wang , Renqin Cai , Hongning Wang

Most of the existing recommender systems are based only on the rating data, and they ignore other sources of information that might increase the quality of recommendations, such as textual reviews, or user and item characteristics.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Tatev Karen Aslanyan , Flavius Frasincar

Latent factor collaborative filtering (CF) has been a widely used technique for recommender system by learning the semantic representations of users and items. Recently, explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Deng Pan , Xiangrui Li , Xin Li , Dongxiao Zhu

There has been growing attention on fairness considerations recently, especially in the context of intelligent decision making systems. Explainable recommendation systems, in particular, may suffer from both explanation bias and performance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zuohui Fu , Yikun Xian , Ruoyuan Gao , Jieyu Zhao , Qiaoying Huang , Yingqiang Ge , Shuyuan Xu , Shijie Geng , Chirag Shah , Yongfeng Zhang , Gerard de Melo