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Most current recommender systems used the historical behaviour data of user to predict user' preference. However, it is difficult to recommend items to new users accurately. To alleviate this problem, existing user cold start methods either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Ziyi Wang , Wendong Xiao , Yu Li , Zulong Chen , Zhi Jiang

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is critical for industrial applications such as recommender system and online advertising. Practically, it plays an important role for CTR modeling in these applications by mining user interest from rich…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Qi Pi , Weijie Bian , Guorui Zhou , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Kun Gai

Sequential recommender models are essential components of modern industrial recommender systems. These models learn to predict the next items a user is likely to interact with based on his/her interaction history on the platform. Most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bo Chang , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Yuyan Wang , Can Xu , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

Bundle recommendations strive to offer users a set of items as a package named bundle, enhancing convenience and contributing to the seller's revenue. While previous approaches have demonstrated notable performance, we argue that they may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yang Li , Kangbo Liu , Yaoxin Wu , Zhaoxuan Wang , Erik Cambria , Xiaoxu Wang

The daily activities performed by a disabled or elderly person can be monitored by a smart environment, and the acquired data can be used to learn a predictive model of user behavior. To speed up the learning, several researchers designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Sharare Zehtabian , Siavash Khodadadeh , Ladislau Bölöni , Damla Turgut

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to address the data-sparsity problem by transferring knowledge across domains. Existing CDR methods generally assume that the user-item interaction data is shareable between domains, which leads to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Li Wang , Shoujin Wang , Quangui Zhang , Qiang Wu , Min Xu

User representation is essential for providing high-quality commercial services in industry. Universal user representation has received many interests recently, with which we can be free from the cumbersome work of training a specific model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Qinghui Sun , Jie Gu , Bei Yang , XiaoXiao Xu , Renjun Xu , Shangde Gao , Hong Liu , Huan Xu

An effective online recommendation system should jointly capture users' long-term and short-term preferences in both users' internal behaviors (from the target recommendation task) and external behaviors (from other tasks). However, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ruobing Xie , Yalong Wang , Rui Wang , Yuanfu Lu , Yuanhang Zou , Feng Xia , Leyu Lin

User simulation is increasingly vital to develop and evaluate recommender systems (RSs). While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising avenues to simulate user behavior, they often struggle with the absence of specific task alignment…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Tianjun Wei , Huizhong Guo , Yingpeng Du , Zhu Sun , Huang Chen , Dongxia Wang , Jie Zhang

Content-based recommendation systems play a crucial role in delivering personalized content to users in the digital world. In this work, we introduce EmbSum, a novel framework that enables offline pre-computations of users and candidate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Chiyu Zhang , Yifei Sun , Minghao Wu , Jun Chen , Jie Lei , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed , Rong Jin , Angli Liu , Ji Zhu , Sem Park , Ning Yao , Bo Long

Deep Interest Network (DIN) is a state-of-the-art model which uses attention mechanism to capture user interests from historical behaviors. User interests intuitively follow a hierarchical pattern such that users generally show interests…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Weinan Xu , Hengxu He , Minshi Tan , Yunming Li , Jun Lang , Dongbai Guo

In this work, we examine the advantages of using multiple types of behaviour in recommendation systems. Intuitively, each user has to do some implicit actions (e.g., click) before making an explicit decision (e.g., purchase). Previous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Quyen Tran , Lam Tran , Linh Chu Hai , Linh Ngo Van , Khoat Than

While recommender systems with multi-modal item representations (image, audio, and text), have been widely explored, learning recommendations from multi-modal user interactions (e.g., clicks and speech) remains an open problem. We study the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Simone Borg Bruun , Krisztian Balog , Maria Maistro

Large Language Model (LLM)-based recommendation systems leverage powerful language models to generate personalized suggestions by processing user interactions and preferences. Unlike traditional recommendation systems that rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh , Jiang Zhang , Dimitrios Andreadis , Konstantinos Psounis

In a practical recommender system, new interactions are continuously observed. Some interactions are expected, because they largely follow users' long-term preferences. Some other interactions are indications of recent trends in user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Yitong Ji , Aixin Sun , Jie Zhang

Recently, recommender systems have been able to emit substantially improved recommendations by leveraging user-provided reviews. Existing methods typically merge all reviews of a given user or item into a long document, and then process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Xin Dong , Jingchao Ni , Wei Cheng , Zhengzhang Chen , Bo Zong , Dongjin Song , Yanchi Liu , Haifeng Chen , Gerard de Melo

Smart assistants increasingly act proactively, yet mistimed or intrusive behavior often causes users to lose trust and disable these features. Learning user preferences for proactive assistance is difficult because real-world studies are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Ziyi Xuan , Yiwen Wu , Zhaoyang Yan , Vinod Namboodiri , Yu Yang

We introduce DeepInterestGR, a novel framework that integrates deep interest mining into the generative recommendation pipeline. This addresses the "Shallow Interest" problem - existing generative methods rely on surface-level textual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yangchen Zeng , Zhenyu Yu , Zhiyuan Hu , Wenxin Zhang , Jinze Wang , Rongfeng Guo

User modeling is important for news recommendation. Existing methods usually first encode user's clicked news into news embeddings independently and then aggregate them into user embedding. However, the word-level interactions across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang

We study the problem of making item recommendations to ephemeral groups, which comprise users with limited or no historical activities together. Existing studies target persistent groups with substantial activity history, while ephemeral…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Aravind Sankar , Yanhong Wu , Yuhang Wu , Wei Zhang , Hao Yang , Hari Sundaram