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Collaborative filtering is one of the most used approaches for providing recommendations in various online environments. Even though collaborative recommendation methods have been widely utilized due to their simplicity and ease of use,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Nikolaos Polatidis , Christos K. Georgiadis

Collaborative filtering is an important technique for recommendation. Whereas it has been repeatedly shown to be effective in previous work, its performance remains unsatisfactory in many real-world applications, especially those where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Zhiyu Min , Dahua Lin

In Recommender Systems, users often seek the best products through indirect, vague, or under-specified queries, such as "best shoes for trail running". Such queries, also referred to as implicit superlative queries, pose a significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kaustubh D. Dhole , Nikhita Vedula , Saar Kuzi , Giuseppe Castellucci , Eugene Agichtein , Shervin Malmasi

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully used to provide users with personalized products and services. However, dealing with the increasing sparseness of user-item matrix still remains a challenge. To tackle such issue, hybrid CF…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu

With the widespread adoption of information systems, recommender systems are widely used for better user experience. Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in implementing recommender systems. Yet, collaborative filtering methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sapumal Ahangama , Danny Chiang-Choon Poo

While personalized recommender systems excel at content discovery, they frequently expose users to undesirable or discomforting information, highlighting the critical need for user-centric filtering tools. Current methods leveraging Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chi Zhang , Zhipeng Xu , Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Tun Lu

For large libraries of small molecules, exhaustive combinatorial chemical screens become infeasible to perform when considering a range of disease models, assay conditions, and dose ranges. Deep learning models have achieved state of the…

Recent agent-based recommendation frameworks aim to simulate user behaviors by incorporating memory mechanisms and prompting strategies, but they struggle with hallucinating non-existent items and full-catalog ranking. Besides, a largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Mingdai Yang , Nurendra Choudhary , Jiangshu Du , Edward W. Huang , Philip S. Yu , Karthik Subbian , Danai Koutra

Hybrid recommendation usually combines collaborative filtering with content-based filtering to exploit merits of both techniques. It is widely accepted that hybrid filtering outperforms the single algorithm, thus it has been the new trend…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yuchen Xiao , Ruzhe Zhong

Recommender systems (RSs) provide an effective way of alleviating the information overload problem by selecting personalized items for different users. Latent factors based collaborative filtering (CF) has become the popular approaches for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Guang-Neng Hu , Xin-Yu Dai , Feng-Yu Qiu , Rui Xia , Tao Li , Shu-Jian Huang , Jia-Jun Chen

Unexpected recommender system constitutes an important tool to tackle the problem of filter bubbles and user boredom, which aims at providing unexpected and satisfying recommendations to target users at the same time. Previous unexpected…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

Generative recommendation is an emerging paradigm that leverages the extensive knowledge of large language models by formulating recommendations into a text-to-text generation task. However, existing studies face two key limitations in (i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sunkyung Lee , Minjin Choi , Eunseong Choi , Hye-young Kim , Jongwuk Lee

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

Nowadays there are more and more items available online, this makes it hard for users to find items that they like. Recommender systems aim to find the item who best suits the user, using his historical interactions. Depending on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Theo Nommay

With the advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, recommender systems have been increasingly used across a vast variety of platforms to efficiently and effectively match users with items. As application…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xuan Bi , Yaqiong Wang , Gediminas Adomavicius , Shawn Curley

Nowadays, people start to use online reservation systems to plan their vacations since they have vast amount of choices available. Selecting when and where to go from this large-scale options is getting harder. In addition, sometimes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Bekir Berker Türker , Resul Tugay , Şule Öğüdücü , İpek Kızıl

Large language models (LLMs) have become an important semantic infrastructure for modern recommender systems. A prevailing paradigm integrates LLM-derived semantic embeddings with collaborative representations via representation alignment,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Maolin Wang , Dongze Wu , Jianing Zhou , Hongyu Chen , Beining Bao , Yu Jiang , Chenbin Zhang , Chang Wang , Jian Liu , Lei Sha

Contrastive learning-based recommendation algorithms have significantly advanced the field of self-supervised recommendation, particularly with BPR as a representative ranking prediction task that dominates implicit collaborative filtering.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shipeng Song , Bin Liu , Fei Teng , Tianrui Li

In implicit collaborative filtering, hard negative mining techniques are developed to accelerate and enhance the recommendation model learning. However, the inadvertent selection of false negatives remains a major concern in hard negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Kexin Shi , Jing Zhang , Linjiajie Fang , Wenjia Wang , Bingyi Jing

Item recommendation is the task of predicting a personalized ranking on a set of items (e.g. websites, movies, products). In this paper, we investigate the most common scenario with implicit feedback (e.g. clicks, purchases). There are many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Steffen Rendle , Christoph Freudenthaler , Zeno Gantner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme