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The ubiquity of implicit feedback makes it indispensable for building recommender systems. However, it does not actually reflect the actual satisfaction of users. For example, in E-commerce, a large portion of clicks do not translate to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

In real-world scenarios, most platforms collect both large-scale, naturally noisy implicit feedback and small-scale yet highly relevant explicit feedback. Due to the issue of data sparsity, implicit feedback is often the default choice for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Yingqiang Ge , Mostafa Rahmani , Athirai Irissappane , Jose Sepulveda , James Caverlee , Fei Wang

While implicit feedback is foundational to modern recommender systems, factors such as human error, uncertainty, and ambiguity in user behavior inevitably introduce significant noise into this feedback, adversely affecting the accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kaike Zhang , Qi Cao , Yunfan Wu , Fei Sun , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Learning from implicit feedback is one of the most common cases in the application of recommender systems. Generally speaking, interacted examples are considered as positive while negative examples are sampled from uninteracted ones.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yu Wang , Xin Xin , Zaiqiao Meng , Xiangnan He , Joemon Jose , Fuli Feng

The ubiquity of implicit feedback makes them the default choice to build modern recommender systems. Generally speaking, observed interactions are considered as positive samples, while unobserved interactions are considered as negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Yunjun Gao , Yuntao Du , Yujia Hu , Lu Chen , Xinjun Zhu , Ziquan Fang , Baihua Zheng

Implicit feedback -- the main data source for training Recommender Systems (RSs) -- is inherently noisy and has been shown to negatively affect recommendation effectiveness. Denoising has been proposed as a method for removing noisy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Ervin Dervishaj , Maria Maistro , Tuukka Ruotsalo , Christina Lioma

The historical interaction sequences of users plays a crucial role in training recommender systems that can accurately predict user preferences. However, due to the arbitrariness of user behavior, the presence of noise in these sequences…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Pengsheng Liu , Linan Zheng , Jiale Chen , Guangfa Zhang , Yang Xu , Jinyun Fang

As its availability and generality in online services, implicit feedback is more commonly used in recommender systems. However, implicit feedback usually presents noisy samples in real-world recommendation scenarios (such as misclicks or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhuangzhuang He , Yifan Wang , Yonghui Yang , Peijie Sun , Le Wu , Haoyue Bai , Jinqi Gong , Richang Hong , Min Zhang

The acquisition of explicit user feedback (e.g., ratings) in real-world recommender systems is often hindered by the need for active user involvement. To mitigate this issue, implicit feedback (e.g., clicks) generated during user browsing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Wentao Li , Junliang Yu , Linxin Guo , Hongzhi Yin

In practical recommendation scenarios, users often interact with items under multi-typed behaviors (e.g., click, add-to-cart, and purchase). Traditional collaborative filtering techniques typically assume that users only have a single type…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Chi Zhang , Rui Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Qilong Han , Li Li

Implicit feedback, such as user clicks, serves as the primary data source for modern recommender systems. However, click interactions inherently contain substantial noise, including accidental clicks, clickbait-induced interactions, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xikai Yang , Yang Wang , Yilin Li , Sebastian Sun

Modern personalized recommendation services often rely on user feedback, either explicit or implicit, to improve the quality of services. Explicit feedback refers to behaviors like ratings, while implicit feedback refers to behaviors like…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Guanyu Lin , Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Yinfeng Li , Jianxin Chang , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Kun Gai , Zhiheng Li , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Implicit feedback is central to modern recommender systems but is inherently noisy, often impairing model training and degrading user experience. At scale, such noise can mislead learning processes, reducing both recommendation accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Ze Liu , Xianquan Wang , Shuochen Liu , Jie Ma , Huibo Xu , Yupeng Han , Kai Zhang , Jun Zhou

Recommender systems widely use implicit feedback such as click data because of its general availability. Although the presence of clicks signals the users' preference to some extent, the lack of such clicks does not necessarily indicate a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-16 Yuta Saito , Suguru Yaginuma , Yuta Nishino , Hayato Sakata , Kazuhide Nakata

In most real-world recommender systems, the observed rating data are subject to selection bias, and the data are thus missing-not-at-random. Developing a method to facilitate the learning of a recommender with biased feedback is one of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Yuta Saito

Learning user preferences from implicit feedback is one of the core challenges in recommendation. The difficulty lies in the potential noise within implicit feedback. Therefore, various denoising recommendation methods have been proposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Weipu Chen , Zhuangzhuang He , Fei Liu

News recommendation is different from movie or e-commercial recommendation as people usually do not grade the news. Therefore, user feedback for news is always implicit (click behavior, reading time, etc). Inevitably, there are noises in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yunfan Hu , Zhaopeng Qiu , Xian Wu

Recommender systems are crucial for personalizing user experiences but often depend on implicit feedback data, which can be noisy and misleading. Existing denoising studies involve incorporating auxiliary information or learning strategies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Shuyao Wang , Zhi Zheng , Yongduo Sui , Hui Xiong

Recommender systems often grapple with noisy implicit feedback. Most studies alleviate the noise issues from data cleaning perspective such as data resampling and reweighting, but they are constrained by heuristic assumptions. Another…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Jujia Zhao , Wenjie Wang , Yiyan Xu , Teng Sun , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Generally speaking, the model training for recommender systems can be based on two types of data, namely explicit feedback and implicit feedback. Moreover, because of its general availability, we see wide adoption of implicit feedback data,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Yi Ren , Hongyan Tang , Jiangpeng Rong , Siwen Zhu
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