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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,…

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In recent years, the field of recommendation systems has attracted increasing attention to developing predictive models that provide explanations of why an item is recommended to a user. The explanations can be either obtained by post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yifeng Guo , Yu Su , Zebin Yang , Aijun Zhang

Understanding user preference is essential to the optimization of recommender systems. As a feedback of user's taste, rating scores can directly reflect the preference of a given user to a given product. Uncovering the latent components of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Junhua Chen , Wei Zeng , Junming Shao , Ge Fan

Providing model-generated explanations in recommender systems is important to user experience. State-of-the-art recommendation algorithms - especially collaborative filtering (CF)-based approaches with shallow or deep models - usually work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Qingyao Ai , Vahid Azizi , Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Recently, recommender systems play a pivotal role in alleviating the problem of information overload. Latent factor models have been widely used for recommendation. Most existing latent factor models mainly utilize the interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Chuan Shi , Xiaotian Han , Li Song , Xiao Wang , Senzhang Wang , Junping Du , Philip S. Yu

State-of-the-art recommendation algorithms -- especially the collaborative filtering (CF) based approaches with shallow or deep models -- usually work with various unstructured information sources for recommendation, such as textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yongfeng Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Xu Chen , Pengfei Wang

Explainable recommender systems can explain their recommendation decisions, enhancing user trust in the systems. Most explainable recommender systems either rely on human-annotated rationales to train models for explanation generation or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Menghan Wang , Kun Zhang , Yulan He

Recommender systems play an important role in many scenarios where users are overwhelmed with too many choices to make. In this context, Collaborative Filtering (CF) arises by providing a simple and widely used approach for personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Gustavo R. Lima , Carlos E. Mello , Geraldo Zimbrao

Explainable recommendations help improve the transparency and credibility of recommendation systems, and play an important role in personalized recommendation scenarios. At present, methods for explainable recommendation based on large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xiangchen Pan , Wei Wei

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have recently enabled a popular class of algorithms for collaborative filtering (CF). Nevertheless, the theoretical underpinnings of their empirical successes remain elusive. In this paper, we endeavor to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yifei Shen , Yongji Wu , Yao Zhang , Caihua Shan , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Dongsheng Li

Model agnostic feature attribution algorithms (such as SHAP and LIME) are ubiquitous techniques for explaining the decisions of complex classification models, such as deep neural networks. However, since complex classification models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Ron Bitton , Alon Malach , Amiel Meiseles , Satoru Momiyama , Toshinori Araki , Jun Furukawa , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Text-based collaborative filtering (TCF) has emerged as the prominent technique for text and news recommendation, employing language models (LMs) as text encoders to represent items. However, the current landscape of TCF models mainly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ruyu Li , Wenhao Deng , Yu Cheng , Zheng Yuan , Jiaqi Zhang , Fajie Yuan

Understanding why specific items are recommended to users can significantly increase their trust and satisfaction in the system. While neural recommenders have become the state-of-the-art in recent years, the complexity of deep models still…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Khanh Hiep Tran , Azin Ghazimatin , Rishiraj Saha Roy

Instruction-following LLMs have recently allowed systems to discover hidden concepts from a collection of unstructured documents based on a natural language description of the purpose of the discovery (i.e., goal). Still, the quality of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Zhouhang Xie , Tushar Khot , Bhavana Dalvi Mishra , Harshit Surana , Julian McAuley , Peter Clark , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Collaborative Filtering (CF) has emerged as fundamental paradigms for parameterizing users and items into latent representation space, with their correlative patterns from interaction data. Among various CF techniques, the development of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

Collaborative filtering (CF), as a fundamental approach for recommender systems, is usually built on the latent factor model with learnable parameters to predict users' preferences towards items. However, designing a proper CF model for a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Chen Gao , Quanming Yao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Collaborative filtering is an effective recommendation approach in which the preference of a user on an item is predicted based on the preferences of other users with similar interests. A big challenge in using collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yu Zhang , Bin Cao , Dit-Yan Yeung

Collaborative information from user-item interactions is a fundamental source of signal in successful recommender systems. Recently, researchers have attempted to incorporate this knowledge into large language model-based recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shahrooz Pouryousef , Ali Montazeralghaem

In this paper, we delve into the concept of interpretable image enhancement, a technique that enhances image quality by adjusting filter parameters with easily understandable names such as "Exposure" and "Contrast". Unlike using predefined…

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