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Conversational recommender system (CRS), which combines the techniques of dialogue system and recommender system, has obtained increasing interest recently. In contrast to traditional recommender system, it learns the user preference better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yunwen Xia , Hui Fang , Jie Zhang , Chong Long

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) capture user preference through textual information in dialogues. However, they suffer from data sparsity on two fronts: the dialogue space is vast and linguistically diverse, while the item space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long , Wei Yuan , Hongxu Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Hongzhi Yin

Group activities are important behaviors in human society, providing personalized recommendations for groups is referred to as the group recommendation task. Existing methods can usually be categorized into two strategies to infer group…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Jinze Li , Shuo Yang , Hewei Wang , Edith C. -H. Ngai

As a pivotal tool to alleviate the information overload problem, recommender systems aim to predict user's preferred items from millions of candidates by analyzing observed user-item relations. As for alleviating the sparsity and cold start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yue Deng

Since group activities have become very common in daily life, there is an urgent demand for generating recommendations for a group of users, referred to as group recommendation task. Existing group recommendation methods usually infer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Jiawei Zhang , Yangyong Zhu , Philip S. Yu

Multi-behavior recommendation (MBR) has garnered growing attention recently due to its ability to mitigate the sparsity issue by inferring user preferences from various auxiliary behaviors to improve predictions for the target behavior.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yabo Yin , Xiaofei Zhu , Wenshan Wang , Yihao Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Yixing Fan , Jiafeng Guo

Group Recommendation (GR) aims to suggest items to a group of users, which has become a critical component of modern social platforms. Existing GR methods focus on aggregating individual user preferences with advanced neural networks to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yangtao Zhou , Wenhao You , Hua Chu , Shihao Guo , Jianan Li , Zhifu Zhao , Qingshan Li

Group recommender systems (GRSs) identify items to recommend to a group of people by aggregating group members' individual preferences into a group profile, and selecting the items that have the largest score in the group profile. The GRS…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Hanif Emamgholizadeh , Amra Delic , Francesco Ricci

Social recommendation task aims to predict users' preferences over items with the incorporation of social connections among users, so as to alleviate the sparse issue of collaborative filtering. While many recent efforts show the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Chao Huang , Huance Xu , Yong Xu , Peng Dai , Lianghao Xia , Mengyin Lu , Liefeng Bo , Hao Xing , Xiaoping Lai , Yanfang Ye

In many cases, recommendations are consumed by groups of users rather than individuals. In this paper, we present a system which recommends social events to groups. The system helps groups to organize a joint activity and collectively…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-03-26 Stratis Ioannidis , S. Muthukrishnan , Jinyun Yan

Recently, real-world recommendation systems need to deal with millions of candidates. It is extremely challenging to conduct sophisticated end-to-end algorithms on the entire corpus due to the tremendous computation costs. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ruobing Xie , Qi Liu , Shukai Liu , Ziwei Zhang , Peng Cui , Bo Zhang , Leyu Lin

To alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems of traditional recommender systems (RSs), incorporating knowledge graphs (KGs) to supplement auxiliary information has attracted considerable attention recently. However, simply integrating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yankai Chen , Yaming Yang , Yujing Wang , Jing Bai , Xiangchen Song , Irwin King

Nowadays, E-commerce is increasingly integrated into our daily lives. Meanwhile, shopping process has also changed incrementally from one behavior (purchase) to multiple behaviors (such as view, carting and purchase). Therefore, utilizing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Daqing Wu , Xiao Luo , Zeyu Ma , Chong Chen , Minghua Deng , Jinwen Ma

As a step beyond traditional personalized recommendation, group recommendation is the task of suggesting items that can satisfy a group of users. In group recommendation, the core is to design preference aggregation functions to obtain a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Jing Long , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems are typically trained based on personal interaction data (e.g., clicks and purchases) that could be naturally represented as ego graphs. However, most existing recommendation methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Liang Qu , Ningzhi Tang , Ruiqi Zheng , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

The remarkable progress of network embedding has led to state-of-the-art algorithms in recommendation. However, the sparsity of user-item interactions (i.e., explicit preferences) on websites remains a big challenge for predicting users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Jun Zhao , Zhou Zhou , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Wei Ning , Guang Qiu , Xiaofei He

In this paper, we study the problem of recommendation system where the users and items to be recommended are rich data structures with multiple entity types and with multiple sources of side-information in the form of graphs. We provide a…

Data sparsity, that is a common problem in neighbor-based collaborative filtering domain, usually complicates the process of item recommendation. This problem is more serious in collaborative ranking domain, in which calculating the users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Bita Shams , Saman Haratizadeh

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

Recommender systems are designed to predict user preferences over collections of items. These systems process users' previous interactions to decide which items should be ranked higher to satisfy their desires. An ensemble recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Alireza Gharahighehi , Celine Vens , Konstantinos Pliakos