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Recommender systems often struggle with over-specialization, which severely limits users' exposure to diverse content and creates filter bubbles that reduce serendipitous discovery. To address this fundamental limitation, this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Edoardo Bianchi

Recommender systems shape online interactions by matching users with creators content to maximize engagement. Creators, in turn, adapt their content to align with users preferences and enhance their popularity. At the same time, users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Lukas Schüepp , Carmen Amo Alonso , Florian Dörfler , Giulia De Pasquale

We propose a parametric family of algorithms for personalized federated learning with locally convex user costs. The proposed framework is based on a generalization of convex clustering in which the differences between different users'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Aleksandar Armacki , Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Soummya Kar

Clustered federated learning (CFL) addresses the performance challenges posed by data heterogeneity in federated learning (FL) by organizing edge devices with similar data distributions into clusters, enabling collaborative model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yuxin Zhang , Haoyu Chen , Zheng Lin , Zhe Chen , Jin Zhao

Clustering points in a vector space or nodes in a graph is a ubiquitous primitive in statistical data analysis, and it is commonly used for exploratory data analysis. In practice, it is often of interest to "refine" or "improve" a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 K. Fountoulakis , M. Liu , D. F. Gleich , M. W. Mahoney

In this study, we introduce Convolutional Transformer Neural Collaborative Filtering (CTNCF), a novel approach aimed at enhancing recommendation systems by effectively capturing high-order structural information in user-item interactions.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Pang Li , Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah , Hafiz Mohd Sarim

Fair clustering is crucial for mitigating bias in unsupervised learning, yet existing algorithms often suffer from quadratic or super-quadratic computational complexity, rendering them impractical for large-scale datasets. To bridge this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shengfei Wei , Suyuan Liu , Jun Wang , Ke Liang , Miaomiao Li , Lei Luo

Many bipartite networks describe systems where an edge represents a relation between a user and an item. Measuring the similarity between either users or items is the basis of memory-based collaborative filtering, a widely used method to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Giambattista Albora , Lavinia Rossi-Mori , Andrea Zaccaria

Generative methods have gained widespread attention in Collaborative Filtering (CF) tasks for their ability to produce high-quality personalized samples aligned with users' interests. Among them, diffusion generative models have raised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yifang Qin , Zhaobin Li , Arisa Watanabe , Wei Ju , Zhiping Xiao , Ming Zhang

We present a general approach for collaborative filtering (CF) using spectral regularization to learn linear operators from "users" to the "objects" they rate. Recent low-rank type matrix completion approaches to CF are shown to be special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-19 Jacob Abernethy , Francis Bach , Theodoros Evgeniou , Jean-Philippe Vert

A collaborative filtering recommender system predicts user preferences by discovering common features among users and items. We implement such inference using a Bayesian double feature allocation model, that is, a model for random pairs of…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-03 Qiaohui Lin , Peter Mueller

Classic resource recommenders like Collaborative Filtering (CF) treat users as being just another entity, neglecting non-linear user-resource dynamics shaping attention and interpretation. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Paul Seitlinger , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi , Tobias Ley , Elisabeth Lex

Classification model selection is a process of identifying a suitable model class for a given classification task on a dataset. Traditionally, model selection is based on cross-validation, meta-learning, and user preferences, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Sudarsun Santhiappan , Nitin Shravan , Balaraman Ravindran

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully employed by many modern recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the user-item interaction data as the sole information source to recommend items to users. However, CF-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Kenan Cui , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang

Recommendation systems have been widely used by commercial service providers for giving suggestions to users. Collaborative filtering (CF) systems, one of the most popular recommendation systems, utilize the history of behaviors of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Saber Shokat Fadaee , Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi , Ravi Sundaram , Hossein Azari Soufiani

In modern recommender systems, CTR/CVR models are increasingly trained with ranking objectives to improve item ranking quality. While this shift aligns training more closely with serving goals, most existing methods rely on in-batch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 YaChen Yan , Liubo Li , Ravi Choudhary

We investigate the problem of online collaborative filtering under no-repetition constraints, whereby users need to be served content in an online fashion and a given user cannot be recommended the same content item more than once. We start…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Stephen Pasteris , Fabio Vitale , Mark Herbster , Claudio Gentile , Andre' Panisson

In this paper, a secure and communication-efficient clustered federated learning (CFL) design is proposed. In our model, several base stations (BSs) with heterogeneous task-handling capabilities and multiple users with non-independent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Dongyu Wei , Xiaoren Xu , Shiwen Mao , Mingzhe Chen

Clustering is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision and pattern recognition. Recently, deep clustering methods (algorithms based on deep learning) have attracted wide attention with their impressive performance. Most of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Yanhai Gan , Xinghui Dong , Huiyu Zhou , Feng Gao , Junyu Dong

We study the problem of clustering a set of items from binary user feedback. Such a problem arises in crowdsourcing platforms solving large-scale labeling tasks with minimal effort put on the users. For example, in some of the recent…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-20 Kaito Ariu , Jungseul Ok , Alexandre Proutiere , Se-Young Yun