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Countless new machine learning models are published every year and are reported to significantly advance the state-of-the-art in top-n recommendation. However, earlier reproducibility studies indicate that progress in this area may be quite…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Michael Benigni , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Dietmar Jannach

Diffusion-based learning has settled as a rising paradigm in generative recommendation, outperforming traditional approaches built upon variational autoencoders and generative adversarial networks. Despite their effectiveness, concerns have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Daniele Malitesta , Giacomo Medda , Erasmo Purificato , Mirko Marras , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Ludovico Boratto

Information on social media spreads through an underlying diffusion network that connects people of common interests and opinions. This diffusion network often comprises multiple layers, each capturing the spreading dynamics of a certain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Yan Xia , Ted Hsuan Yun Chen , Mikko Kivelä

In last decades, diversity and accuracy have been regarded as two important measures in evaluating a recommendation model. However, a clear concern is that a model focusing excessively on one measure will put the other one at risk, thus it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Ya-Hui An , Qiang Dong , Chong-Jing Sun , Da-Cheng Nie , Yan Fu

Information overload in the modern society calls for highly efficient recommendation algorithms. In this letter we present a novel diffusion based recommendation model, with users' ratings built into a transition matrix. To speed up…

Physics and Society · Physics 2007-11-15 Yi-Cheng Zhang , Matus Medo , Jie Ren , Tao Zhou , Tao Li , Fan Yang

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

Recommender systems predict personalized item rankings based on user preference distributions derived from historical behavior data. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have gained attention in recommendation for their ability to model complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuo Liu , An Zhang , Guoqing Hu , Hong Qian , Tat-seng Chua

Social recommendation has emerged to leverage social connections among users for predicting users' unknown preferences, which could alleviate the data sparsity issue in collaborative filtering based recommendation. Early approaches relied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Le Wu , Junwei Li , Peijie Sun , Richang Hong , Yong Ge , Meng Wang

Recommender systems, inferring users' preferences from their historical activities and personal profiles, have been an enormous success in the last several years. Most of the existing works are based on the similarities of users, objects or…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-11-29 Xiaofang Deng , Leilei Wu , Xiaolong Ren , Chunxiao Jia , Yuansheng Zhong , Linyuan Lü

Reranking plays a crucial role in modern multi-stage recommender systems by rearranging the initial ranking list to model interplay between items. Considering the inherent challenges of reranking such as combinatorial searching space, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiao Lin , Xiaokai Chen , Chenyang Wang , Hantao Shu , Linfeng Song , Biao Li , Peng jiang

Social recommendation has emerged as a powerful approach to enhance personalized recommendations by leveraging the social connections among users, such as following and friend relations observed in online social platforms. The fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zongwei Li , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Diffusion models, a family of generative models based on deep learning, have become increasingly prominent in cutting-edge machine learning research. With a distinguished performance in generating samples that resemble the observed data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lequan Lin , Zhengkun Li , Ruikun Li , Xuliang Li , Junbin Gao

Sequential recommendation aims to infer user preferences from historical interaction sequences and predict the next item that users may be interested in the future. The current mainstream design approach is to represent items as fixed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Yong Niu , Xing Xing , Zhichun Jia , Ruidi Liu , Mindong Xin

In this paper, based on a weighted projection of bipartite user-object network, we introduce a personalized recommendation algorithm, called the \emph{network-based inference} (NBI), which has higher accuracy than the classical algorithm,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-12-07 Tao Zhou , Riqi Su , Runran Liu , Luoluo Jiang , Bing-Hong Wang , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Recommenders aim to rank items from a discrete item corpus in line with user interests, yet suffer from extremely sparse user preference data. Recent advances in diffusion models have inspired diffusion-based recommenders, which alleviate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Guoqing Hu , An Zhang. Shuchang Liu , Wenyu Mao , Jiancan Wu , Xun Yang , Xiang Li , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Kun Gai , Xiang Wang

In this work, we consider how preference models in interactive recommendation systems determine the availability of content and users' opportunities for discovery. We propose an evaluation procedure based on stochastic reachability to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Mihaela Curmei , Sarah Dean , Benjamin Recht

In this paper, we study resilient distributed diffusion for multi-task estimation in the presence of adversaries where networked agents must estimate distinct but correlated states of interest by processing streaming data. We show that in…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Jiani Li , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Recommender systems apply data mining techniques and prediction algorithms to predict users' interest on information, products and services among the tremendous amount of available items. The vast growth of information on the Internet as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Dhoha Almazro , Ghadeer Shahatah , Lamia Albdulkarim , Mona Kherees , Romy Martinez , William Nzoukou

Intelligent recommendation systems have clearly increased the revenue of well-known e-commerce firms. Users receive product recommendations from recommendation systems. Cinematic recommendations are made to users by a movie recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rohit Chivukula , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Hemlata Sharma , C. H. S. N. P. Sairam Rallabandi

The increasing prominence of temporal networks in online social platforms and dynamic communication systems has made influence maximization a critical research area. Various diffusion models have been proposed to capture the spread of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aaqib Zahoor , Iqra Altaf Gillani , Janibul Bashir