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User interests are usually dynamic in the real world, which poses both theoretical and practical challenges for learning accurate preferences from rich behavior data. Among existing user behavior modeling solutions, attention networks are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Chao Chen , Haoyu Geng , Nianzu Yang , Junchi Yan , Daiyue Xue , Jianping Yu , Xiaokang Yang

In sequential recommendation, models recommend items based on user's interaction history. To this end, current models usually incorporate information such as item descriptions and user intent or preferences. User preferences are usually not…

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in sequential recommendation tasks, leveraging their superior language understanding capabilities. However, existing LLM-based recommendation approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Minglai Shao , Hua Huang , Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu

We consider the problem of learning the preferences of a heterogeneous population by observing choices from an assortment of products, ads, or other offerings. Our observation model takes a form common in assortment planning applications:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-09 Nathan Kallus , Madeleine Udell

Diversified recommendation has attracted increasing attention from both researchers and practitioners, which can effectively address the homogeneity of recommended items. Existing approaches predominantly aim to infer the diversity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Hanyang Yuan , Ning Tang , Tongya Zheng , Jiarong Xu , Xintong Hu , Renhong Huang , Shunyu Liu , Jiacong Hu , Jiawei Chen , Mingli Song

In recent years, many studies extract aspects from user reviews and integrate them with ratings for improving the recommendation performance. The common aspects mentioned in a user's reviews and a product's reviews indicate indirect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-18 Xinyu Guan , Zhiyong Cheng , Xiangnan He , Yongfeng Zhang , Zhibo Zhu , Qinke Peng , Tat-Seng Chua

Understanding the customers' high level shopping intent, such as their desire to go camping or hold a birthday party, is critically important for an E-commerce platform; it can help boost the quality of shopping experience by enabling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Xin Shen , Jiaying Shi , Sungro Yoon , Jon Katzur , Hanbo Wang , Jim Chan , Jin Li

Existing review-based recommendation methods usually use the same model to learn the representations of all users/items from reviews posted by users towards items. However, different users have different preference and different items have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hongtao Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Wenjun Wang , Xianchen Wang , Pengfei Jiao , Chuhan Wu , Xing Xie

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a core task in online personalization platform. A key step for CTR prediction is to learn accurate user representation to capture their interests. Generally, the interest expressed by a user is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Xian-Jin Gui

Accurately modeling user preferences is vital not only for improving recommendation performance but also for enhancing transparency in recommender systems. Conventional user profiling methods, such as averaging item embeddings, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

As one of the important functions of the intelligent transportation system (ITS), supply-demand prediction for autonomous vehicles provides a decision basis for its control. In this paper, we present two prediction models (i.e. ARLP model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Zikai Zhang , Yidong Li , Hairong Dong , Yizhe You , Fengping Zhao

User-item interaction histories are pivotal for sequential recommendation systems but often include noise, such as unintended clicks or actions that fail to reflect genuine user preferences. To address this, we propose Learned Item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Haidong Xin , Zhenghao Liu , Sen Mei , Yukun Yan , Shi Yu , Shuo Wang , Zulong Chen , Yu Gu , Ge Yu , Chenyan Xiong

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable success, but aligning them with human preferences remains a core challenge. As individuals have their own, multi-dimensional preferences, recent studies have explored multi-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Minhyeon Oh , Seungjoon Lee , Jungseul Ok

Attention is an important cognition process of humans, which helps humans concentrate on critical information during their perception and learning. However, although many machine learning models can remember information of data, they have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Guoqiang Zhong , Xin Lin , Kang Chen , Qingyang Li , Kaizhu Huang

Given a sequence of sets, where each set has a timestamp and contains an arbitrary number of elements, temporal sets prediction aims to predict the elements in the subsequent set. Previous studies for temporal sets prediction mainly focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Le Yu , Zihang Liu , Leilei Sun , Bowen Du , Chuanren Liu , Weifeng Lv

Product search serves as an important entry point for online shopping. In contrast to web search, the retrieved results in product search not only need to be relevant but also should satisfy customers' preferences in order to elicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Keping Bi , Choon Hui Teo , Yesh Dattatreya , Vijai Mohan , W. Bruce Croft

Learning user preferences for products based on their past purchases or reviews is at the cornerstone of modern recommendation engines. One complication in this learning task is that some users are more likely to purchase products or review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Wanning Chen , Mohsen Bayati

Search queries are appropriate when users have explicit intent, but they perform poorly when the intent is difficult to express or if the user is simply looking to be inspired. Visual browsing systems allow e-commerce platforms to address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Choon Hui Teo , Houssam Nassif , Daniel Hill , Sriram Srinavasan , Mitchell Goodman , Vijai Mohan , SVN Vishwanathan

This paper explores an improved Adaboost algorithm based on Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTMs), which aims to improve the prediction accuracy of user clicks on web page advertisements. By comparing it with several common machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Qixuan Yu , Xirui Tang , Feiyang Li , Zinan Cao

Recommendation systems aim to assist users to discover most preferred contents from an ever-growing corpus of items. Although recommenders have been greatly improved by deep learning, they still faces several challenges: (1) Behaviors are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Wendi Ji , Keqiang Wang , Xiaoling Wang , TingWei Chen , Alexandra Cristea