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CTR prediction plays a vital role in recommender systems. Recently, large language models (LLMs) have been applied in recommender systems due to their emergence abilities. While leveraging semantic information from LLMs has shown some…

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As e-commerce platforms expand their product catalogs, accurately recommending long-tail items becomes increasingly important for enhancing both user experience and platform revenue. A key challenge is the long-tail problem, where extreme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qingyi Lu , Haotian Lyu , Jiayun Zheng , Yang Wang , Li Zhang , Chengrui Zhou

Estimating Click-Through Rate (CTR) is a vital yet challenging task in personalized product search. However, existing CTR methods still struggle in the product search settings due to the following three challenges including how to more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Qijie Shen , Hong Wen , Jing Zhang , Qi Rao

In this era of information explosion, a personalized recommendation system is convenient for users to get information they are interested in. To deal with billions of users and items, large-scale online recommendation services usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Xu Yuan , Chen Xu , Qiwei Chen , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Accurately modeling user preferences is crucial for improving the performance of content-based recommender systems. Existing approaches often rely on simplistic user profiling methods, such as averaging or concatenating item embeddings,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

In a variety of online settings involving interaction with end-users it is critical for the systems to adapt to changes in user preferences. User preferences on items tend to change over time due to a variety of factors such as change in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Farzad Eskandanian , Bamshad Mobasher

Recently, much effort has been devoted to modeling users' multi-interests based on their behaviors or auxiliary signals. However, existing methods often rely on heuristic assumptions, e.g., co-occurring items indicate the same interest of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ziyan Wang , Yingpeng Du , Zhu Sun , Jieyi Bi , Haoyan Chua , Tianjun Wei , Jie Zhang

One key property in recommender systems is the long-tail distribution in user-item interactions where most items only have few user feedback. Improving the recommendation of tail items can promote novelty and bring positive effects to both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Tieyun Qian , Yile Liang , Qing Li , Xuan Ma , Ke Sun , Zhiyong Peng

User interest exploration is an important and challenging topic in recommender systems, which alleviates the closed-loop effects between recommendation models and user-item interactions. Contextual bandit (CB) algorithms strive to make a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yu Song , Jianxun Lian , Shuai Sun , Hong Huang , Yu Li , Hai Jin , Xing Xie

User modeling plays a fundamental role in industrial recommender systems, either in the matching stage and the ranking stage, in terms of both the customer experience and business revenue. How to extract users' multiple interests…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Jiaxuan Xie , Jianxiong Wei , Qingsong Hua , Yu Zhang

The main task of personalized recommendation is capturing users' interests based on their historical behaviors. Most of recent advances in recommender systems mainly focus on modeling users' preferences accurately using deep learning based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Shihao Li , Dekun Yang , Bufeng Zhang

Modern recommender systems leverage ultra-long user behavior sequences to capture dynamic preferences, but end-to-end modeling is infeasible in production due to latency and memory constraints. While summarizing history via interest centers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Kun Yuan , Junyu Bi , Daixuan Cheng , Changfa Wu , Shuwen Xiao , Binbin Cao , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang

Interest modeling in recommender system has been a constant topic for improving user experience, and typical interest modeling tasks (e.g. multi-interest, long-tail interest and long-term interest) have been investigated in many existing…

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Heterogeneous information networks (HINs) are widely applied to recommendation systems due to their capability of modeling various auxiliary information with meta-paths. However, existing HIN-based recommendation models usually fuse the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Dengcheng Yan , Wenxin Xie , Yiwen Zhang

Recommendation systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience and engagement in various online platforms. Traditional methods, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Content-Based Filtering (CBF), rely heavily on past user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaochuan Xu , Zeqiu Xu , Peiyang Yu , Jiani Wang

In recommendation systems, user interests are always in a state of constant flux. Typically, a user interest experiences a emergent phase, a stable phase, and a declining phase, which are referred to as the "user interest life-cycle".…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Yinjiang Cai , Jiangpan Hou , Yangping Zhu , Yuan Nie

User recommendation systems enhance user engagement by encouraging users to act as inviters to interact with other users (invitees), potentially fostering information propagation. Conventional recommendation methods typically focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hongru Hou , Jiachen Sun , Wenqing Lin , Wendong Bi , Xiangrong Wang , Deqing Yang

Rich user behavior data has been proven to be of great value for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction applications, especially in industrial recommender, search, or advertising systems. However, it's non-trivial for real-world systems to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yue Cao , XiaoJiang Zhou , Jiaqi Feng , Peihao Huang , Yao Xiao , Dayao Chen , Sheng Chen

Sequential recommendation aims to identify and recommend the next few items for a user that the user is most likely to purchase/review, given the user's purchase/rating trajectories. It becomes an effective tool to help users select…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Bo Peng , Zhiyun Ren , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

Capturing users' precise preferences is a fundamental problem in large-scale recommender system. Currently, item-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are common matching approaches in industry. However, they are not effective to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Fuyu Lv , Taiwei Jin , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Wilfred Ng