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The wide development of mobile applications provides a considerable amount of data of all types (images, texts, sounds, videos, etc.). Thus, two main issues have to be considered: assist users in finding information and reduce search and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Djallel Bouneffouf

Online forums enable users to discuss together around various topics. One of the serious problems of these environments is high volume of discussions and thus information overload problem. Unfortunately without considering the users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Hadi Fanaee-T , Mehran Yazdi

Due to strong capabilities in conducting fluent, multi-turn conversations with users, Large Language Models (LLMs) have the potential to further improve the performance of Conversational Recommender System (CRS). Unlike the aimless…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Jiabao Fang , Shen Gao , Pengjie Ren , Xiuying Chen , Suzan Verberne , Zhaochun Ren

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations through multi-turn natural language interactions with users. Given the strong interaction and reasoning skills of Large Language Models (LLMs), leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiaoyan Zhao , Ming Yan , Yang Zhang , Yang Deng , Jian Wang , Fengbin Zhu , Yilun Qiu , Hong Cheng , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is able to obtain fine-grained and dynamic user preferences based on interactive dialogue. Previous CRS assumes that the user has a clear target item. However, for many users who resort to CRS,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yiming Zhang , Lingfei Wu , Qi Shen , Yitong Pang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Bo Long , Jian Pei

Recommender systems (RSs) are designed to retrieve candidate items a user might be interested in from a large pool. A common approach is using graph neural networks (GNNs) to capture high-order interaction relationships. As large language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Junze Chen , Xinjie Yang , Cheng Yang , Junfei Bao , Zeyuan Guo , Yawen Li , Chuan Shi

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have shown great success in accurately capturing a user's current and detailed preference through the multi-round interaction cycle while effectively guiding users to a more personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Recommendation systems often suffer from data sparsity caused by limited user-item interactions, which degrade their performance and amplify popularity bias in real-world scenarios. This paper proposes a novel data augmentation framework…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Minh-Anh Nguyen , Bao Nguyen , Ha Lan N. T. , Tuan Anh Hoang , Duc-Trong Le , Dung D. Le

Existing Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) predominantly utilize user simulators for training and evaluating recommendation policies. These simulators often oversimplify the complexity of user interactions by focusing solely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Gangyi Zhang , Chongming Gao , Hang Pan , Runzhe Teng , Ruizhe Li

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is emerging as a user-friendly way to capture users' dynamic preferences over candidate items and attributes. Multi-shot CRS is designed to make recommendations multiple times until the user either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yinan Zhang , Boyang Li , Yong Liu , You Yuan , Chunyan Miao

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) operate under incremental preference revelation, requiring systems to make recommendation decisions under uncertainty. While recent approaches particularly those built on large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Subham Raj , Aman Vaibhav Jha , Mayank Anand , Sriparna Saha

Interactive recommendation aims to learn from dynamic interactions between items and users to achieve responsiveness and accuracy. Reinforcement learning is inherently advantageous for coping with dynamic environments and thus has attracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Xiaocong Chen , Chaoran Huang , Lina Yao , Xianzhi Wang , Wei Liu , Wenjie Zhang

Group recommender systems (GRS) are critical in discovering relevant items from a near-infinite inventory based on group preferences rather than individual preferences, like recommending a movie, restaurant, or tourist destination to a…

In the field of group recommendation systems (GRS), effectively addressing the diverse preferences of group members poses a significant challenge. Traditional GRS approaches often aggregate individual preferences into a collective group…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Peijin Yu , Shin'ichi Konomi

In recent years, conversational recommender system (CRS) has received much attention in the research community. However, existing studies on CRS vary in scenarios, goals and techniques, lacking unified, standardized implementation or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Kun Zhou , Xiaolei Wang , Yuanhang Zhou , Chenzhan Shang , Yuan Cheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Ji-Rong Wen

In recent years, knowledge graphs have been integrated into recommender systems as item-side auxiliary information, enhancing recommendation accuracy. However, constructing and integrating structural user-side knowledge remains a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Zheng Hu , Zhe Li , Ziyun Jiao , Satoshi Nakagawa , Jiawen Deng , Shimin Cai , Tao Zhou , Fuji Ren

Knowledge graphs contain rich semantic relationships related to items and incorporating such semantic relationships into recommender systems helps to explore the latent connections of items, thus improving the accuracy of prediction and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang

Resources for simulation-based evaluation of conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are scarce. The UserSimCRS toolkit was introduced to address this gap. In this work, we present UserSimCRS v2, a significant upgrade aligning the toolkit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nolwenn Bernard , Krisztian Balog

As user behavior data becomes increasingly scattered across different platforms, achieving cross-domain knowledge fusion while preserving privacy has become a critical issue in recommender systems. Existing PPCDR methods usually rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Lei Guo , Ting Yang , Xu Yu , Xiaohui Han , Guiyuan Jiang , Hui Liu