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While Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) have matured technically, they frequently lack principled methods for encoding latent experiential aims as adaptive state variables. Consequently, contemporary architectures often prioritise…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Raj Mahmud , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mukesh Prasad , A. Baki Kocaballi

Recommender systems have been actively and extensively studied over past decades. In the meanwhile, the boom of Big Data is driving fundamental changes in the development of recommender systems. In this paper, we propose a dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao

Driven by advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), integrating them into recommendation tasks has gained interest due to their strong semantic understanding and prompt flexibility. Prior work encoded user-item interactions or metadata into…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Keyu Zhao , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Intent modeling has attracted widespread attention in recommender systems. As the core motivation behind user selection of items, intent is crucial for elucidating recommendation results. The current mainstream modeling method is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yi Zhang , Lei Sang , Yiwen Zhang

Recommender systems are crucial to alleviate the information overload problem in online worlds. Most of the modern recommender systems capture users' preference towards items via their interactions based on collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Dawei Yin , Jianping Wang , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

Capturing the temporal dynamics of user preferences over items is important for recommendation. Existing methods mainly assume that all time steps in user-item interaction history are equally relevant to recommendation, which however does…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Wenjie Pei , Jie Yang , Zhu Sun , Jie Zhang , Alessandro Bozzon , David M. J. Tax

Traditional collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems tend to perform poorly when the user-item interactions/ratings are highly scarce. To address this, we propose a learning framework that improves collaborative filtering with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wenlin Wang , Hongteng Xu , Ruiyi Zhang , Wenqi Wang , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

Recommender systems play a crucial role in mitigating the problem of information overload by suggesting users' personalized items or services. The vast majority of traditional recommender systems consider the recommendation procedure as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Xiangyu Zhao , Liang Zhang , Long Xia , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

Modeling user-item interaction patterns is an important task for personalized recommendations. Many recommender systems are based on the assumption that there exists a linear relationship between users and items while neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Sen Wang , Guodong Long , Manqing Dong

With the evolution of generative AI, multi - agent systems leveraging large - language models(LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for complex tasks. However, these systems face challenges in quantifying agent performance and lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuwei Lou , Hao Hu , Shaocong Ma , Zongfei Zhang , Liang Wang , Jidong Ge , Xianping Tao

AI-driven recommender systems are often perceived as personalization black boxes, limiting users' ability to understand how their data shapes content (information asymmetry) or to influence system behavior meaningfully (power asymmetry).…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mengke Wu , Weizi Liu , Yanyun Wang , Weiyu Ding , Mike Yao

Traditional machine learning based intelligent systems assist users by learning patterns in data and making recommendations. However, these systems are limited in that the user has little means of understanding the rationale behind the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Ankit Gupta

Training conversational recommender systems (CRS) requires extensive dialogue data, which is challenging to collect at scale. To address this, researchers have used simulated user-recommender conversations. Traditional simulation approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jerome Ramos , Feng Xia , Xi Wang , Shubham Chatterjee , Xiao Fu , Hossein A. Rahmani , Aldo Lipani

Recommender systems play a key role in shaping modern web ecosystems. These systems alternate between (1) making recommendations (2) collecting user responses to these recommendations, and (3) retraining the recommendation algorithm based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Karl Krauth , Yixin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

LLM-based agents are emerging as a promising paradigm for simulating user behavior to enhance recommender systems. However, their effectiveness is often limited by existing studies that focus on modeling user ratings for individual items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Jiahao Wang , Bokang Fu , Yu Zhu , Yuli Liu

Collaborative information from user-item interactions is a fundamental source of signal in successful recommender systems. Recently, researchers have attempted to incorporate this knowledge into large language model-based recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shahrooz Pouryousef , Ali Montazeralghaem

Recommender systems often struggle to strike a balance between matching users' tastes and providing unexpected recommendations. When recommendations are too narrow and fail to cover the full range of users' preferences, the system is…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Ruixuan Sun , Avinash Akella , Ruoyan Kong , Moyan Zhou , Joseph A. Konstan

Recommendation systems aim to predict users' feedback on items not exposed to them. Confounding bias arises due to the presence of unmeasured variables (e.g., the socio-economic status of a user) that can affect both a user's exposure and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Qing Zhang , Xiaoying Zhang , Yang Liu , Hongning Wang , Min Gao , Jiheng Zhang , Ruocheng Guo

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through interactive conversations. Although several efforts have been made for CRS, two major issues still remain to be solved. First, the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Shuqing Bian , Yuanhang Zhou , Ji-Rong Wen , Jingsong Yu