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We have developed a conversational recommendation system designed to help users navigate through a set of limited options to find the best choice. Unlike many internet scale systems that use a singular set of search terms and return a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Victor S. Bursztyn , Jennifer Healey , Eunyee Koh , Nedim Lipka , Larry Birnbaum

Recommendation systems are a key modern application of machine learning, but they have the downside that they often draw upon sensitive user information in making their predictions. We show how to address this deficiency by basing a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Naveen Durvasula , Franklyn Wang , Scott Duke Kominers

In the world of big data, many people find it difficult to access the information they need quickly and accurately. In order to overcome this, research on the system that recommends information accurately to users is continuously conducted.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Keum Gang Cha , Soo-Ryeon Lee , Jung-Woo Lee , Seung Bin Baik

The advent of the Semantic Web necessitates paradigm shifts away from centralized client/server architectures towards decentralization and peer-to-peer computation, making the existence of central authorities superfluous and even…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2008-12-25 Ernesto Diaz-Aviles , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Cai-Nicolas Ziegler

Recommender systems are central to modern online platforms, but a popular concern is that they may be pulling society in dangerous directions (e.g., towards filter bubbles). However, a challenge with measuring the effects of recommender…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Serina Chang , Johan Ugander

Recommendation algorithms play a pivotal role in shaping our media choices, which makes it crucial to comprehend their long-term impact on user behavior. These algorithms are often linked to two critical outcomes: homogenization, wherein…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Md Sanzeed Anwar , Grant Schoenebeck , Paramveer S. Dhillon

In this paper, we investigate recommender systems from a network perspective and investigate recommendation networks, where nodes are items (e.g., movies) and edges are constructed from top-N recommendations (e.g., related movies). In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Daniel Lamprecht , Markus Strohmaier , Denis Helic

Recommender systems have generated tremendous value for both users and businesses, drawing significant attention from academia and industry alike. However, due to practical constraints, academic research remains largely confined to offline…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kuan Zou , Aixin Sun

One of the main challenges in recommender systems is data sparsity which leads to high variance. Several attempts have been made to improve the bias-variance trade-off using auxiliary information. In particular, document modeling-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Meysam Varasteh , Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Ahmad Kalhor

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 are known to suffer from the popularity bias problem: popular (i.e. frequently rated) items get a lot of exposure while less popular ones are under-represented in the recommendations. Research in this area has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-20 Himan Abdollahpouri , Masoud Mansoury , Robin Burke , Bamshad Mobasher

Recommender systems are widely used to predict personalized preferences of goods or services using users' past activities, such as item ratings or purchase histories. If collections of such personal activities were made publicly available,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Jun Sakuma , Tatsuya Osame

Optimizing outcomes for multiple stakeholders in recommender systems has historically focused on algorithmic interventions, such as developing multi-objective models or re-ranking results from existing algorithms. However, structural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Anas Buhayh , Elizabeth McKinnie , Clement Canel , Robin Burke

Recommender systems have become an essential tool to help resolve the information overload problem in recent decades. Traditional recommender systems, however, suffer from data sparsity and cold start problems. To address these issues, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zhu Sun , Qing Guo , Jie Yang , Hui Fang , Guibing Guo , Jie Zhang , Robin Burke

The widespread adoption of smartphones and Location-Based Social Networks has led to a massive influx of spatio-temporal data, creating unparalleled opportunities for enhancing Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems. These advanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qianru Zhang , Peng Yang , Junliang Yu , Haixin Wang , Xingwei He , Siu-Ming Yiu , Hongzhi Yin

As a pivotal tool to alleviate the information overload problem, recommender systems aim to predict user's preferred items from millions of candidates by analyzing observed user-item relations. As for alleviating the sparsity and cold start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yue Deng

Recommendation systems underpin the serving of nearly all online content in the modern age. From Youtube and Netflix recommendations, to Facebook feeds and Google searches, these systems are designed to filter content to the predicted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Emil Noordeh , Roman Levin , Ruochen Jiang , Harris Shadmany

Using smartphones for peer-to-peer communication over the Internet is difficult without the aid of centralized services. These centralized services, which usually reside in the cloud, are necessary for brokering communication between peers,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Jo Inge Arnes , Randi Karlsen

In this big data era, it is hard for the current generation to find the right data from the huge amount of data contained within online platforms. In such a situation, there is a need for an information filtering system that might help them…

Recommender systems are software tools used to generate and provide suggestions for items and other entities to the users by exploiting various strategies. Hybrid recommender systems combine two or more recommendation strategies in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Erion Çano , Maurizio Morisio