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Recommendation systems are widely used in web services, such as social networks and e-commerce platforms, to serve personalized content to the users and, thus, enhance their experience. While personalization assists users in navigating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nicolas Lanzetti , Florian Dörfler , Nicolò Pagan

Explainable recommendation is a technique that combines prediction and generation tasks to produce more persuasive results. Among these tasks, textual generation demands large amounts of data to achieve satisfactory accuracy. However,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hao Cheng , Shuo Wang , Wensheng Lu , Wei Zhang , Mingyang Zhou , Kezhong Lu , Hao Liao

System-provided explanations for recommendations are an important component towards transparent and trustworthy AI. In state-of-the-art research, this is a one-way signal, though, to improve user acceptance. In this paper, we turn the role…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Azin Ghazimatin , Soumajit Pramanik , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Despite the acknowledgment that the perception of explanations may vary considerably between end-users, explainable recommender systems (RS) have traditionally followed a one-size-fits-all model, whereby the same explanation level of detail…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Mohamed Amine Chatti , Mouadh Guesmi , Laura Vorgerd , Thao Ngo , Shoeb Joarder , Qurat Ul Ain , Arham Muslim

Existing explanation models generate only text for recommendations but still struggle to produce diverse contents. In this paper, to further enrich explanations, we propose a new task named personalized showcases, in which we provide both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-07 An Yan , Zhankui He , Jiacheng Li , Tianyang Zhang , Julian McAuley

Recent studies have shown that providing personalized explanations alongside recommendations increases trust and perceived quality. Furthermore, it gives users an opportunity to refine the recommendations by critiquing parts of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Diego Antognini , Boi Faltings

With the aid of large language models, current conversational recommender system (CRS) has gaining strong abilities to persuade users to accept recommended items. While these CRSs are highly persuasive, they can mislead users by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Peixin Qin , Chen Huang , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua

Counterfactual explanations interpret the recommendation mechanism via exploring how minimal alterations on items or users affect the recommendation decisions. Existing counterfactual explainable approaches face huge search space and their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xiangmeng Wang , Qian Li , Dianer Yu , Guandong Xu

Automated platforms which support users in finding a mutually beneficial match, such as online dating and job recruitment sites, are becoming increasingly popular. These platforms often include recommender systems that assist users in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Akiva Kleinerman , Ariel Rosenfeld , Sarit Kraus

The affective attitude of liking a recommended item reflects just one category in a wide spectrum of affective phenomena that also includes emotions such as entranced or intrigued, moods such as cheerful or buoyant, as well as more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Tonmoy Hasan , Razvan Bunescu

One of the main challenges in recommender systems is data sparsity which leads to high variance. Several attempts have been made to improve the bias-variance trade-off using auxiliary information. In particular, document modeling-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Meysam Varasteh , Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Ahmad Kalhor

Explainable recommendation systems leverage transparent reasoning to foster user trust and improve decision-making processes. Current approaches typically decouple recommendation generation from explanation creation, violating causal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Guanrong Li , Haolin Yang , Xinyu Liu , Zhen Wu , Xinyu Dai

Explainable recommendation has shown its great advantages for improving recommendation persuasiveness, user satisfaction, system transparency, among others. A fundamental problem of explainable recommendation is how to evaluate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang , Ji-Rong Wen

The concept of privacy is inherently intertwined with human attitudes and behaviours, as most computer systems are primarily designed for human use. Especially in the case of Recommender Systems, which feed on information provided by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Sanchit Alekh

Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junzhe Jiang , Shang Qu , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Kai Zhang , Rui Li , Jiatong Li , Min Gao

In online platforms, recommender systems are responsible for directing users to relevant contents. In order to enhance the users' engagement, recommender systems adapt their output to the reactions of the users, who are in turn affected by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Wilbert Samuel Rossi , Jan Willem Polderman , Paolo Frasca

Providing system-generated explanations for recommendations represents an important step towards transparent and trustworthy recommender systems. Explainable recommender systems provide a human-understandable rationale for their outputs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Mohamed Amine Chatti , Mouadh Guesmi , Arham Muslim

Just as user preferences change with time, item reviews also reflect those same preference changes. In a nutshell, if one is to sequentially incorporate review content knowledge into recommender systems, one is naturally led to dynamical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Kostadin Cvejoski , Ramses J. Sanchez , Christian Bauckhage , Cesar Ojeda

Explanations are used in recommender systems for various reasons. Users have to be supported in making (high-quality) decisions more quickly. Developers of recommender systems want to convince users to purchase specific items. Users should…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-25 A. Felfernig , N. Tintarev , T. N. T. Trang , M. Stettinger

Recommendation is a prevalent application of machine learning that affects many users; therefore, it is important for recommender models to be accurate and interpretable. In this work, we propose a method to both interpret and augment the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Michael Tsang , Dehua Cheng , Hanpeng Liu , Xue Feng , Eric Zhou , Yan Liu