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In recommender systems, knowledge graph (KG) can offer critical information that is lacking in the original user-item interaction graph (IG). Recent process has explored this direction and shows that contrastive learning is a promising way…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Haibo Ye , Xinjie Li , Yuan Yao , Hanghang Tong

Conversational information access is an emerging research area. Currently, human evaluation is used for end-to-end system evaluation, which is both very time and resource intensive at scale, and thus becomes a bottleneck of progress. As an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

The growing ubiquity of Extended Reality (XR) is driving Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS) toward visually immersive experiences. We formalize this paradigm as Immersive CRS (ICRS), where recommended items are highlighted directly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiazhou Liang , Yifan Simon Liu , David Guo , Minqi Sun , Yilun Jiang , Scott Sanner

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly prominent in the recommendation systems domain. Existing studies usually utilize in-context learning or supervised fine-tuning on task-specific data to align LLMs into recommendations. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhong Guan , Likang Wu , Hongke Zhao , Ming He , Jianpin Fan

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) actively elicit user preferences to generate adaptive recommendations. Mainstream reinforcement learning-based CRS solutions heavily rely on handcrafted reward functions, which may not be aligned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Zhendong Chu , Nan Wang , Hongning Wang

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) illuminate user preferences via multi-round interactive dialogues, ultimately navigating towards precise and satisfactory recommendations. However, contemporary CRS are limited to inquiring binary or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Wei Fan , Weijia Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song , Hao Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end framework called KBRD, which stands for Knowledge-Based Recommender Dialog System. It integrates the recommender system and the dialog generation system. The dialog system can enhance the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Qibin Chen , Junyang Lin , Yichang Zhang , Ming Ding , Yukuo Cen , Hongxia Yang , Jie Tang

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) now allows users to actively interact with conversational recommendation systems (CRS) and build their own personalized recommendation services tailored to their unique needs and goals. This…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sojeong Yun , Youn-kyung Lim

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide highquality recommendations in conversations. However, most conventional CRS models mainly focus on the dialogue understanding of the current session, ignoring other rich multi-aspect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Shuokai Li , Ruobing Xie , Yongchun Zhu , Xiang Ao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He

To alleviate sparsity and cold start problem of collaborative filtering based recommender systems, researchers and engineers usually collect attributes of users and items, and design delicate algorithms to exploit these additional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Hongwei Wang , Miao Zhao , Xing Xie , Wenjie Li , Minyi Guo

Knowledge Graph-based recommendations have gained significant attention due to their ability to leverage rich semantic relationships. However, constructing and maintaining Knowledge Graphs (KGs) is resource-intensive, and the accuracy of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Rui Cai , Chao Wang , Qianyi Cai , Dazhong Shen , Hui Xiong

Knowledge graphs have proven to be effective for modeling entities and their relationships through the use of ontologies. The recent emergence in interest for using knowledge graphs as a form of information modeling has led to their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ngoc Luyen Le , Marie-Hélène Abel , Philippe Gouspillou

In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), a user provides feedback on recommended items at each turn, leading the CRS towards improved recommendations. Due to the need for a large amount of data, a user simulator is employed for both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Maria Vlachou

Knowledge graphs, represented in RDF, are able to model entities and their relations by means of ontologies. The use of knowledge graphs for information modeling has attracted interest in recent years. In recommender systems, items and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ngoc Luyen Le , Marie-Hélène Abel , Philippe Gouspillou

While language models (LMs) offer great potential for conversational recommender systems (CRSs), the paucity of public CRS data makes fine-tuning LMs for CRSs challenging. In response, LMs as user simulators qua data generators can be used…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Moonkyung Ryu , Chih-Wei Hsu , Yinlam Chow , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Craig Boutilier

Conversational recommender systems offer the promise of interactive, engaging ways for users to find items they enjoy. We seek to improve conversational recommendation via three dimensions: 1) We aim to mimic a common mode of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shuyang Li , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley

Session-based recommender systems (SBRSs) predict users' next interacted items based on their historical activities. While most SBRSs capture purchasing intentions locally within each session, capturing items' global information across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yu Wang , Amin Javari , Janani Balaji , Walid Shalaby , Tyler Derr , Xiquan Cui

Large language models (LLMs) has become a significant research focus and is utilized in various fields, such as text generation and dialog systems. One of the most essential applications of LLM is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Sicheng Dong , Vahid Zolfaghari , Nenad Petrovic , Alois Knoll

Graph-based collaborative filtering methods have prevailing performance for recommender systems since they can capture high-order information between users and items, in which the graphs are constructed from the observed user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hongjian Gu , Yaochen Hu , Yingxue Zhang

A knowledge graph (KG) consists of a set of interconnected typed entities and their attributes. Recently, KGs are popularly used as the auxiliary information to enable more accurate, explainable, and diverse user preference recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Yuntao Du , Xinjun Zhu , Lu Chen , Ziquan Fang , Yunjun Gao