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Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, adopting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

Factorization machine (FM) is an effective model for feature-based recommendation which utilizes inner product to capture second-order feature interactions. However, one of the major drawbacks of FM is that it couldn't capture complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Enneng Yang , Xin Xin , Li Shen , Guibing Guo

Learning good feature embeddings for images often requires substantial training data. As a consequence, in settings where training data is limited (e.g., few-shot and zero-shot learning), we are typically forced to use a generic feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Xin Wang , Fisher Yu , Ruth Wang , Trevor Darrell , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Feature selection aims to identify the optimal feature subset for enhancing downstream models. Effective feature selection can remove redundant features, save computational resources, accelerate the model learning process, and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Nanxu Gong , Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

We propose NECA, a deep representation learning method for categorical data. Built upon the foundations of network embedding and deep unsupervised representation learning, NECA deeply embeds the intrinsic relationship among attribute values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xiaonan Gao , Sen Wu , Wenjun Zhou

In recent years, recommender systems have advanced rapidly, where embedding learning for users and items plays a critical role. A standard method learns a unique embedding vector for each user and item. However, such a method has two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yizhou Chen , Guangda Huzhang , Anxiang Zeng , Qingtao Yu , Hui Sun , Heng-yi Li , Jingyi Li , Yabo Ni , Han Yu , Zhiming Zhou

Network representation learning (NRL) plays a vital role in a variety of tasks such as node classification and link prediction. It aims to learn low-dimensional vector representations for nodes based on network structures or node…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Ke Hou , Jiaying Liu , Yin Peng , Bo Xu , Ivan Lee , Feng Xia

Feature selection aims to identify the most pattern-discriminative feature subset. In prior literature, filter (e.g., backward elimination) and embedded (e.g., Lasso) methods have hyperparameters (e.g., top-K, score thresholding) and tie to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Wangyang Ying , Dongjie Wang , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

Recommendation problems with large numbers of discrete items, such as products, webpages, or videos, are ubiquitous in the technology industry. Deep neural networks are being increasingly used for these recommendation problems. These models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Manas R. Joglekar , Cong Li , Jay K. Adams , Pranav Khaitan , Quoc V. Le

Embedding high-dimensional data onto a low-dimensional manifold is of both theoretical and practical value. In this paper, we propose to combine deep neural networks (DNN) with mathematics-guided embedding rules for high-dimensional data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zixia Zhou , Xinrui Zu , Yuanyuan Wang , Boudewijn P. F. Lelieveldt , Qian Tao

Traditional network embedding primarily focuses on learning a continuous vector representation for each node, preserving network structure and/or node content information, such that off-the-shelf machine learning algorithms can be easily…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Daokun Zhang , Jie Yin , Xingquan Zhu , Chengqi Zhang

This paper proposes a new deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) architecture that learns pixel embeddings, such that pairwise distances between the embeddings can be used to infer whether or not the pixels lie on the same region. That…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Adam W. Harley , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Iasonas Kokkinos

Deep learning models for medical data are typically trained using task specific objectives that encourage representations to collapse onto a small number of discriminative directions. While effective for individual prediction problems, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuanyun Zhang , Mingxuan Zhang , Siyuan Li , Zihan Wang , Haoran Chen , Wenbo Zhou , Shi Li

Current recommender systems employ large-sized embedding tables with uniform dimensions for all features, leading to overfitting, high computational cost, and suboptimal generalizing performance. Many techniques aim to solve this issue by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yakun Yu , Shi-ang Qi , Jiuding Yang , Liyao Jiang , Di Niu

The denoising model has been proven a powerful generative model but has little exploration of discriminative tasks. Representation learning is important in discriminative tasks, which is defined as "learning representations (or features) of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Zhengrui Xu , Guan'an Wang , Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang

Traditional approaches for learning on categorical data underexploit the dependencies between columns (\aka fields) in a dataset because they rely on the embedding of data points driven alone by the classification/regression loss. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhibin Li , Piotr Koniusz , Lu Zhang , Daniel Edward Pagendam , Peyman Moghadam

Network embedding leverages the node proximity manifested to learn a low-dimensional node vector representation for each node in the network. The learned embeddings could advance various learning tasks such as node classification, network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Jundong Li , Harsh Dani , Xia Hu , Jiliang Tang , Yi Chang , Huan Liu

In this paper, the task of cross-network node classification, which leverages the abundant labeled nodes from a source network to help classify unlabeled nodes in a target network, is studied. The existing domain adaptation algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-29 Xiao Shen , Quanyu Dai , Fu-lai Chung , Wei Lu , Kup-Sze Choi

This study proposes a novel approach that combines theory and data-driven choice models using Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs). In particular, we use continuous vector representations, called embeddings, for encoding categorical or…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-01 Ioanna Arkoudi , Carlos Lima Azevedo , Francisco C. Pereira