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Both reviews and user-item interactions (i.e., rating scores) have been widely adopted for user rating prediction. However, these existing techniques mainly extract the latent representations for users and items in an independent and static…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Libing Wu , Cong Quan , Chenliang Li , Qian Wang , Bolong Zheng

We introduce a novel latent vector space model that jointly learns the latent representations of words, e-commerce products and a mapping between the two without the need for explicit annotations. The power of the model lies in its ability…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Christophe Van Gysel , Maarten de Rijke , Evangelos Kanoulas

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most used methods for Recommender System. Because of the Bayesian nature and nonlinearity, deep generative models, e.g. Variational Autoencoder (VAE), have been applied into CF task, and have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Teng Xiao , Shangsong Liang , Hong Shen , Zaiqiao Meng

In this paper, we propose a Conditioned Variational Autoencoder (C-VAE) for constrained top-N item recommendation where the recommended items must satisfy a given condition. The proposed model architecture is similar to a standard VAE in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Tommaso Carraro , Mirko Polato , Fabio Aiolli

Context-aware recommendation systems improve upon classical recommender systems by including, in the modelling, a user's behaviour. Research into context-aware recommendation systems has previously only considered the sequential ordering of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Mufhumudzi Muthivhi , Terence L. van Zyl , Hairong Wang

Recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting has emerged as a promising approach for modeling 3D scenes using mixtures of Gaussians. The predominant optimization method for these models relies on backpropagating gradients through a differentiable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Toon Van de Maele , Ozan Catal , Alexander Tschantz , Christopher L. Buckley , Tim Verbelen

Sequential recommendation models are crucial for next-item recommendations in online platforms, capturing complex patterns in user interactions. However, many focus on a single behavior, overlooking valuable implicit interactions like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Shereen Elsayed , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Complementary products recommendation is an important problem in e-commerce. Such recommendations increase the average order price and the number of products in baskets. Complementary products are typically inferred from basket data. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-27 Ilya Trofimov

Given a question-image input, the Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) model can predict an answer with the corresponding rationale, which requires inference ability from the real world. The VCR task, which calls for exploiting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xuejiao Tang , Wenbin Zhang

Gaussian graphical models are used for determining conditional relationships between variables. This is accomplished by identifying off-diagonal elements in the inverse-covariance matrix that are non-zero. When the ratio of variables (p) to…

Applications · Statistics 2018-08-07 Donald R. Williams , Juho Piironen , Aki Vehtari , Philippe Rast

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) enhance the expressivity and personalization of recommendations through multiple turns of user-system interaction. Critiquing is a well-known paradigm for CRS that allows users to iteratively refine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Armin Toroghi , Griffin Floto , Zhenwei Tang , Scott Sanner

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

Sequential Recommendation is a widely studied paradigm for learning users' dynamic interests from historical interactions for predicting the next potential item. Although lots of research work has achieved remarkable progress, they are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Yongqiang Han , Likang Wu , Hao Wang , Guifeng Wang , Mengdi Zhang , Zhi Li , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

The skip-gram (SG) model learns word representation by predicting the words surrounding a center word from unstructured text data. However, not all words in the context window contribute to the meaning of the center word. For example, less…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Dongjae Kim , Jong-Kook Kim

Human affordance learning investigates contextually relevant novel pose prediction such that the estimated pose represents a valid human action within the scene. While the task is fundamental to machine perception and automated interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Prasun Roy , Saumik Bhattacharya , Subhankar Ghosh , Umapada Pal , Michael Blumenstein

The customization of recommended content to users holds significant importance in enhancing user experiences across a wide spectrum of applications such as e-commerce, music, and shopping. Graph-based methods have achieved considerable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Narges Sadat Fazeli Dehkordi , Hadi Zare , Parham Moradi , Mahdi Jalili

With the emergence of e-commerce, the recommendations provided by commercial platforms must adapt to diverse scenarios to accommodate users' varying shopping preferences. Current methods typically use a unified framework to offer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Moyu Zhang , Yujun Jin , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang

Next basket recommendation (NBR) is the task of predicting the next set of items based on a sequence of already purchased baskets. It is a recommendation task that has been widely studied, especially in the context of grocery shopping. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Ming Li , Mozhdeh Ariannezhad , Andrew Yates , Maarten de Rijke

Top-$N$ sequential recommendation models each user as a sequence of items interacted in the past and aims to predict top-$N$ ranked items that a user will likely interact in a `near future'. The order of interaction implies that sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Jiaxi Tang , Ke Wang

In recent years, image recognition method has been a research hotspot in various fields such as video surveillance, biometric identification, unmanned vehicles, human-computer interaction, and medical image recognition. Existing recognition…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-12 Yunzhi Jin , Yanqing Zhang , Niansheng Tang