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Recommender systems research has experienced different stages such as from user preference understanding to content analysis. Typical recommendation algorithms were built on the following bases: (1) assuming users and items are IID, namely…

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Recommendation reason generation, aiming at showing the selling points of products for customers, plays a vital role in attracting customers' attention as well as improving user experience. A simple and effective way is to extract keywords…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Haolan Zhan , Hainan Zhang , Hongshen Chen , Lei Shen , Yanyan Lan , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin

Recently, models for user representation learning have been widely applied in click-through-rate (CTR) and conversion-rate (CVR) prediction. Usually, the model learns a universal user representation as the input for subsequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Xiaoyu Tan , Yongxin Deng , Chao Qu , Siqiao Xue , Xiaoming Shi , James Zhang , Xihe Qiu

Precise user and item embedding learning is the key to building a successful recommender system. Traditionally, Collaborative Filtering(CF) provides a way to learn user and item embeddings from the user-item interaction history. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Le Wu , Peijie Sun , Yanjie Fu , Richang Hong , Xiting Wang , Meng Wang

Recently, Graph Convolutional Network (GCN) has become a novel state-of-art for Collaborative Filtering (CF) based Recommender Systems (RS). It is a common practice to learn informative user and item representations by performing embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Yinan Zhang , Pei Wang , Congcong Liu , Xiwei Zhao , Hao Qi , Jie He , Junsheng Jin , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao

Social networks have become essential for people's lives. The proliferation of web services further expands social networks at an unprecedented scale, leading to immeasurable commercial value for online platforms. Recently, the group buying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Xiaolong Liu , Liangwei Yang , Chen Wang , Mingdai Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Philip S. Yu

A recommender system predicts users' potential interests in items, where the core is to learn user/item embeddings. Nevertheless, it suffers from the data-sparsity issue, which the cross-domain recommendation can alleviate. However, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Chen Wang , Yueqing Liang , Zhiwei Liu , Tao Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Despite the fact that advertisements (ads) often include strongly emotional content, very little work has been devoted to affect recognition (AR) from ads. This work explicitly compares content-centric and user-centric ad AR methodologies,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Abhinav Shukla , Shruti Shriya Gullapuram , Harish Katti , Karthik Yadati , Mohan Kankanhalli , Ramanathan Subramanian

A large amount of User Generated Content (UGC) is uploaded to the Internet daily and displayed to people world-widely through the client side (e.g., mobile and PC). This requires the cropping algorithms to produce the aesthetic thumbnail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Yukun Su , Yiwen Cao , Jingliang Deng , Fengyun Rao , Qingyao Wu

News recommendation is important for online news services. Existing news recommendation models are usually learned from users' news click behaviors. Usually the behaviors of users with the same sensitive attributes (e.g., genders) have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Xiting Wang , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Personalized recommender systems aim to predict users' preferences for items. It has become an indispensable part of online services. Online social platforms enable users to form groups based on their common interests. The users' group…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Xiaolong Liu , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Xiaohan Li , Mingdai Yang , Chen Wang , Philip S. Yu

Federated recommender systems (FedRecs) have gained significant attention for their potential to protect user's privacy by keeping user privacy data locally and only communicating model parameters/gradients to the server. Nevertheless, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Liang Qu , Wei Yuan , Ruiqi Zheng , Lizhen Cui , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

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

Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach for recommender systems. One way to perform collaborative filtering is matrix factorization, which characterizes user preferences and item attributes using latent vectors. These latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-15 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Kenro Aihara , Atsuhiro Takasu

Recommending relevant items to users is a crucial task on online communities such as Reddit and Twitter. For recommendation system, representation learning presents a powerful technique that learns embeddings to represent user behaviors and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Shalini Pandey , George Karypis , Jaideep Srivasatava

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

Users and creators are two crucial components of recommender systems. Typical recommender systems focus on the user side, providing the most suitable items based on each user's request. In such scenarios, a few items receive a majority of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xiaoshuang Chen , Yibo Wang , Yao Wang , Husheng Liu , Kaiqiao Zhan , Ben Wang , Kun Gai

This paper proposes a deep learning-based method for learning joint context-content embeddings (JCCE) with a view to context-aware recommendations, and demonstrate its application in the television domain. JCCE builds on recent progress…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Miklas S. Kristoffersen , Jacob L. Wieland , Sven E. Shepstone , Zheng-Hua Tan , Vinoba Vinayagamoorthy

User-generated item lists are popular on many platforms. Examples include video-based playlists on YouTube, image-based lists (or"boards") on Pinterest, book-based lists on Goodreads, and answer-based lists on question-answer forums like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Yun He , Yin Zhang , Weiwen Liu , James Caverlee