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A discriminative ensemble tracker employs multiple classifiers, each of which casts a vote on all of the obtained samples. The votes are then aggregated in an attempt to localize the target object. Such method relies on collective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Kourosh Meshgi , Maryam Sadat Mirzaei , Shigeyuki Oba , Shin Ishii

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

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 systems heavily depend on user feedback expressed in product ratings to select and rank items to recommend. In this study we explore how users value different collaborative explanation styles following the user-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Ludovik Coba , Markus Zanker , Laurens Rook , Panagiotis Symeonidis

Recommendation models can effectively estimate underlying user interests and predict one's future behaviors by factorizing an observed user-item rating matrix into products of two sets of latent factors. However, the user-specific embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qitian Wu , Hengrui Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

In this paper, we study collaborative filtering in an interactive setting, in which the recommender agents iterate between making recommendations and updating the user profile based on the interactive feedback. The most challenging problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Lixin Zou , Long Xia , Yulong Gu , Xiangyu Zhao , Weidong Liu , Jimmy Xiangji Huang , Dawei Yin

Many businesses are using recommender systems for marketing outreach. Recommendation algorithms can be either based on content or driven by collaborative filtering. We study different ways to incorporate content information directly into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-08-09 Jennifer Nguyen , Mu Zhu

We propose a novel approach for using unsupervised boosting to create an ensemble of generative models, where models are trained in sequence to correct earlier mistakes. Our meta-algorithmic framework can leverage any existing base learner…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Aditya Grover , Stefano Ermon

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

Heterogeneous ensembles built from the predictions of a wide variety and large number of diverse base predictors represent a potent approach to building predictive models for problems where the ideal base/individual predictor may not be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Ana Stanescu , Gaurav Pandey

In recent years, deep neural network is introduced in recommender systems to solve the collaborative filtering problem, which has achieved immense success on computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. On one hand,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ge Fan , Wei Zeng , Shan Sun , Biao Geng , Weiyi Wang , Weibo Liu

In this paper, we consider a popular model for collaborative filtering in recommender systems where some users of a website rate some items, such as movies, and the goal is to recover the ratings of some or all of the unrated items of each…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-10 Kai Zhu , Rui Wu , Lei Ying , R. Srikant

Collaborative filtering is a very useful general technique for exploiting the preference patterns of a group of users to predict the utility of items to a particular user. Previous research has studied several probabilistic graphic models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Rong Jin , Luo Si , ChengXiang Zhai

Selecting the right compiler optimisations has a severe impact on programs' performance. Still, the available optimisations keep increasing, and their effect depends on the specific program, making the task human intractable. Researchers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Stefano Cereda , Gianluca Palermo , Paolo Cremonesi , Stefano Doni

Recommending items to users has long been a fundamental task, and studies have tried to improve it ever since. Most well-known models commonly employ representation learning to map users and items into a unified embedding space for matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Radin Cheraghi , Amir Mohammad Mahfoozi , Sepehr Zolfaghari , Mohammadshayan Shabani , Maryam Ramezani , Hamid R. Rabiee

In this paper, we propose a very concise deep learning approach for collaborative filtering that jointly models distributional representation for users and items. The proposed framework obtains better performance when compared against…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Zhang Junlin , Cai Heng , Huang Tongwen , Xue Huiping

With the recent growth in data availability and complexity, and the associated outburst of elaborate modelling approaches, model selection tools have become a lifeline, providing objective criteria to deal with this increasingly challenging…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-08 Alessandro Casa , Luca Scrucca , Giovanna Menardi

Recommender systems are personalized: we expect the results given to a particular user to reflect that user's preferences. Some researchers have studied the notion of calibration, how well recommendations match users' stated preferences,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Kun Lin , Nasim Sonboli , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke

Recommender systems require their recommendation algorithms to be accurate, scalable and should handle very sparse training data which keep changing over time. Inspired by ant colony optimization, we propose a novel collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Yongji Wang , Xiaofeng Liao , Hu Wu , Jingzheng Wu

Recommender systems are ubiquitous in the domain of e-commerce, used to improve the user experience and to market inventory, thereby increasing revenue for the site. Techniques such as item-based collaborative filtering are used to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Daniel A. Galron , Yuri M. Brovman , Jin Chung , Michal Wieja , Paul Wang