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To address the sparsity and cold start problem of collaborative filtering, researchers usually make use of side information, such as social networks or item attributes, to improve recommendation performance. This paper considers the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Hongwei Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Jialin Wang , Miao Zhao , Wenjie Li , Xing Xie , Minyi Guo

We focus on the problem of streaming recommender system and explore novel collaborative filtering algorithms to handle the data dynamicity and complexity in a streaming manner. Although deep neural networks have demonstrated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Qingquan Song , Shiyu Chang , Xia Hu

Recommender systems usually face the issue of filter bubbles: overrecommending homogeneous items based on user features and historical interactions. Filter bubbles will grow along the feedback loop and inadvertently narrow user interests.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Classical recommender system methods typically face the filter bubble problem when users only receive recommendations of their familiar items, making them bored and dissatisfied. To address the filter bubble problem, unexpected…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Pan Li , Maofei Que , Zhichao Jiang , Yao Hu , Alexander Tuzhilin

In recent years, deep neural network is introduced in recommender systems to solve the collaborative filtering problem, which has achieved immense success on computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. On one hand,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ge Fan , Wei Zeng , Shan Sun , Biao Geng , Weiyi Wang , Weibo Liu

Sequential recommendation effectively addresses information overload by modeling users' temporal and sequential interaction patterns. To overcome the limitations of supervision signals, recent approaches have adopted self-supervised…

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A continual learning agent learns online with a non-stationary and never-ending stream of data. The key to such learning process is to overcome the catastrophic forgetting of previously seen data, which is a well known problem of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-01 Rahaf Aljundi , Min Lin , Baptiste Goujaud , Yoshua Bengio

Social recommender systems have drawn a lot of attention in many online web services, because of the incorporation of social information between users in improving recommendation results. Despite the significant progress made by existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Lianghao Xia , Yizhen Shao , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Huance Xu , Jian Pei

We analyze the unintended effects that recommender systems have on the preferences of users that they are learning. We consider a contextual multi-armed bandit recommendation algorithm that learns optimal product recommendations based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Prabhat Lankireddy , Jayakrishnan Nair , D Manjunath

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven their effectiveness for recommender systems. Existing studies have applied GNNs to capture collaborative relations in the data. However, in real-world scenarios, the relations in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaohan Li , Zhiwei Liu , Stephen Guo , Zheng Liu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu , Kannan Achan

Traditional recommendation systems often grapple with "filter bubbles", underutilization of external knowledge, and a disconnect between model optimization and business policy iteration. To address these limitations, this paper introduces…

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Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) were recently proposed for the session-based recommendation task. The models showed promising improvements over traditional recommendation approaches. In this work, we further study RNN-based models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Yong Kiam Tan , Xinxing Xu , Yong Liu

The user review data have been demonstrated to be effective in solving different recommendation problems. Previous review-based recommendation methods usually employ sophisticated compositional models, such as Recurrent Neural Networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Yong Liu , Susen Yang , Yinan Zhang , Chunyan Miao , Zaiqing Nie , Juyong Zhang

Graph filters leverage topological information to process networked data with existing methods mainly studying fixed graphs, ignoring that graphs often expand as nodes continually attach with an unknown pattern. The latter requires…

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The problem of session-based recommendation aims to predict user actions based on anonymous sessions. Previous methods model a session as a sequence and estimate user representations besides item representations to make recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Shu Wu , Yuyuan Tang , Yanqiao Zhu , Liang Wang , Xing Xie , Tieniu Tan

Given e-commerce scenarios that user profiles are invisible, session-based recommendation is proposed to generate recommendation results from short sessions. Previous work only considers the user's sequential behavior in the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Jing Li , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma

Sequential recommender systems aims to predict the users' next interaction through user behavior modeling with various operators like RNNs and attentions. However, existing models generally fail to achieve the three golden principles for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Chengkai Liu , Jianghao Lin , Hanzhou Liu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

The amount of content on online music streaming platforms is immense, and most users only access a tiny fraction of this content. Recommender systems are the application of choice to open up the collection to these users. Collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Cedric De Boom , Rohan Agrawal , Samantha Hansen , Esh Kumar , Romain Yon , Ching-Wei Chen , Thomas Demeester , Bart Dhoedt

Recommendation has been a long-standing problem in many areas ranging from e-commerce to social websites. Most current studies focus only on traditional approaches such as content-based or collaborative filtering while there are relatively…

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