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It has been an important task for recommender systems to suggest satisfying activities to a group of users in people's daily social life. The major challenge in this task is how to aggregate personal preferences of group members to infer…

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Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-Encoders (VAEs) are widely utilized to model the generative process of user interactions. However, these generative models suffer from intrinsic…

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The core of the general recommender systems lies in learning high-quality embedding representations of users and items to investigate their positional relations in the feature space. Unfortunately, data sparsity caused by…

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Many multimodal recommender systems have been proposed to exploit the rich side information associated with users or items (e.g., user reviews and item images) for learning better user and item representations to improve the recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Fan Liu , Huilin Chen , Zhiyong Cheng , Anan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely introduced into Collaborative Filtering (CF) to produce more accurate recommendation results due to their capability of capturing the complex nonlinear relationships between items and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ling Huang , Can-Rong Guan , Zhen-Wei Huang , Yuefang Gao , Yingjie Kuang , Chang-Dong Wang , C. L. Philip Chen

Recommender systems have long been built upon the modeling of interactions between users and items, while recent studies have sought to broaden this paradigm by generalizing to new users and items, incorporating diverse information sources,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chanyoung Chung , Kyeongryul Lee , Sunbin Park , Joyce Jiyoung Whang

Deep neural networks have emerged as a powerful technique for learning representations from user-item interaction data in collaborative filtering (CF) for recommender systems. However, many existing methods heavily rely on unique user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xubin Ren , Chao Huang

Choice models predict which items users choose from presented options. In recommendation settings, they can infer user preferences while countering exposure bias. In contrast with traditional univariate recommendation models, choice models…

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Collaborative filtering is used to recommend items to a user without requiring a knowledge of the item itself and tends to outperform other techniques. However, collaborative filtering suffers from the cold-start problem, which occurs when…

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Group recommender systems aim to generate recommendations that align with the collective preferences of a group, introducing challenges that differ significantly from those in individual recommendation scenarios. This paper presents Joint…

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Recommender systems have played a critical role in diverse digital services such as e-commerce, streaming media, social networks, etc. If we know what a user's intent is in a given session (e.g. do they want to watch short videos or a movie…

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LLM-based agents have gained considerable attention for their decision-making skills and ability to handle complex tasks. Recognizing the current gap in leveraging agent capabilities for multi-agent collaboration in recommendation systems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Zhefan Wang , Yuanqing Yu , Wendi Zheng , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for recommendation based on implicit feedback collaborative filtering. However, standard CML methods learn fixed user and item representations, which fails to…

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Users and creators are two crucial components of recommender systems. Typical recommender systems focus on the user side, providing the most suitable items based on each user's request. In such scenarios, a few items receive a majority of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xiaoshuang Chen , Yibo Wang , Yao Wang , Husheng Liu , Kaiqiao Zhan , Ben Wang , Kun Gai

Recommender systems learn personalized user preferences from user feedback like clicks. However, user feedback is usually biased towards partially observed interests, leaving many users' hidden interests unexplored. Existing approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jiaju Chen , Wenjie Wang , Chongming Gao , Peng Wu , Jianxiong Wei , Qingsong Hua

Federated recommendation system usually trains a global model on the server without direct access to users' private data on their own devices. However, this separation of the recommendation model and users' private data poses a challenge in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

Bundle recommendation aims to suggest a set of interconnected items to users. However, diverse interaction types and sparse interaction matrices often pose challenges for previous approaches in accurately predicting user-bundle adoptions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tuan-Nghia Bui , Huy-Son Nguyen , Cam-Van Nguyen Thi , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le

Cross-market recommender systems (CMRS) aim to utilize historical data from mature markets to promote multinational products in emerging markets. However, existing CMRS approaches often overlook the potential for shared preferences among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Li Fan , Menglin Kong , Yang Xiang , Chong Zhang , Chengtao Ji

Recommender systems aim to recommend new items to users by learning user and item representations. In practice, these representations are highly entangled as they consist of information about multiple factors, including user's interests,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Paras Sheth , Ruocheng Guo , Lu Cheng , Huan Liu , K. Selçuk Candan

Effective recommender systems play a crucial role in accurately capturing user and item attributes that mirror individual preferences. Some existing recommendation techniques have started to shift their focus towards modeling various types…

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