English
Related papers

Related papers: Explainable Recommendation Systems by Generalized …

200 papers

Product search is one of the most popular methods for customers to discover products online. Most existing studies on product search focus on developing effective retrieval models that rank items by their likelihood to be purchased. They,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qingyao Ai , Yongfeng Zhang , Keping Bi , W. Bruce Croft

The remarkable text understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have revitalized the field of general recommendation based on implicit user feedback. Rather than deploying LLMs directly as recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Kai Zheng , Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin

The goal of recommender systems is to help users find useful items from a large catalog of items by producing a list of item recommendations for every user. Data sets based on implicit data collection have a number of special…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Markus Viljanen , Tapio Pahikkala

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely applied across multiple domains for their broad knowledge and strong reasoning capabilities. However, applying them to recommendation systems is challenging since it is hard for LLMs to extract…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yinan Zhang , Zhixi Chen , Jiazheng Jing , Zhiqi Shen

Path-based explanations provide intrinsic insights into graph-based recommendation models. However, most previous work has focused on explaining an individual recommendation of an item to a user. In this paper, we propose summary…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Danae Pla Karidi , Evaggelia Pitoura

In the past decades, recommender systems have attracted much attention in both research and industry communities, and a large number of studies have been devoted to developing effective recommendation models. Basically speaking, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Junjie Zhang , Ruobing Xie , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Leyu Lin , Ji-Rong Wen

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in customer service introduces new risks, as malicious actors can exploit them to conduct large-scale user impersonation through machine-generated text (MGT). Current MGT detection methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Angela Yifei Yuan , Haoyi Li , Soyeon Caren Han , Christopher Leckie

Modern recommender systems aim to deeply understand users' complex preferences through their past interactions. While deep collaborative filtering approaches using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at capturing user-item relationships,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yangqin Jiang , Yuhao Yang , Lianghao Xia , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin , Chao Huang

Game recommendation is an important application of recommender systems. Recommendations are made possible by data sets of historical player and game interactions, and sometimes the data sets include features that describe games or players.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Markus Viljanen , Jukka Vahlo , Aki Koponen , Tapio Pahikkala

Lending decisions are usually made with proprietary models that provide minimally acceptable explanations to users. In a future world without such secrecy, what decision support tools would one want to use for justified lending decisions?…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Chaofan Chen , Kangcheng Lin , Cynthia Rudin , Yaron Shaposhnik , Sijia Wang , Tong Wang

Factorization-based models have gained popularity since the Netflix challenge {(2007)}. Since that, various factorization-based models have been developed and these models have been proven to be efficient in predicting users' ratings…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

This paper presents ReasoningRec, a reasoning-based recommendation framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to bridge the gap between recommendations and human-interpretable explanations. In contrast to conventional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Millennium Bismay , Xiangjue Dong , James Caverlee

Large language models (LLMs) have recently received significant attention for their exceptional capabilities. Despite extensive efforts in developing general-purpose LLMs that can be utilized in various natural language processing (NLP)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Fan Yang , Zheng Chen , Ziyan Jiang , Eunah Cho , Xiaojiang Huang , Yanbin Lu

The recommendation system is not only a problem of inductive statistics from data but also a cognitive task that requires reasoning ability. The most advanced graph neural networks have been widely used in recommendation systems because…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Bang Chen , Wei Peng , Maonian Wu , Bo Zheng , Shaojun Zhu

Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junzhe Jiang , Shang Qu , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Kai Zhang , Rui Li , Jiatong Li , Min Gao

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations by capturing user preferences through interactive dialogues. Explainability in CRSs is crucial as it enables users to understand the reasoning behind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhangchi Qiu , Linhao Luo , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Recommendation Systems are effective in managing the ever-increasing amount of multimodal data available today and help users discover interesting new items. These systems can handle various media types such as images, text, audio, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haimonti Dutta , Pruthvi Moluguri , Jin Dai , Saurabh Amarnath Mahindre

Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach for recommender systems. One way to perform collaborative filtering is matrix factorization, which characterizes user preferences and item attributes using latent vectors. These latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-15 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Kenro Aihara , Atsuhiro Takasu

Recommendation systems harness user-item interactions like clicks and reviews to learn their representations. Previous studies improve recommendation accuracy and interpretability by modeling user preferences across various aspects and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Fan Liu , Yaqi Liu , Huilin Chen , Zhiyong Cheng , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Latent factor models have achieved great success in personalized recommendations, but they are also notoriously difficult to explain. In this work, we integrate regression trees to guide the learning of latent factor models for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Yiyi Tao , Yiling Jia , Nan Wang , Hongning Wang