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Current sequential recommender systems are proposed to tackle the dynamic user preference learning with various neural techniques, such as Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, inference from the highly sparse user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin

Recommender systems are widely used in various real-world applications, but they often encounter the persistent challenge of the user cold-start problem. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR), which leverages user interactions from one domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Hourun Li , Yifan Wang , Zhiping Xiao , Jia Yang , Changling Zhou , Ming Zhang , Wei Ju

In recent years, contrastive learning achieves impressive results on self-supervised visual representation learning, but there still lacks a rigorous understanding of its learning dynamics. In this paper, we show that if we cast a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yifei Wang , Qi Zhang , Tianqi Du , Jiansheng Yang , Zhouchen Lin , Yisen Wang

Recommender models aimed at mining users' behavioral patterns have raised great attention as one of the essential applications in daily life. Recent work on graph neural networks (GNNs) or debiasing methods has attained remarkable gains.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xinfeng Wang , Fumiyo Fukumoto , Jin Cui , Yoshimi Suzuki , Jiyi Li , Dongjin Yu

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used in collaborative filtering to capture high-order user-item relationships. To address the data sparsity problem in recommendation systems, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Hewei Wang , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Edith Ngai

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in the recommendation tasks and have obtained very appealing performance. However, most GNN-based recommendation methods suffer from the problem of data sparsity in practice. Meanwhile,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yiqi Wang , Chaozhuo Li , Zheng Liu , Mingzheng Li , Jiliang Tang , Xing Xie , Lei Chen , Philip S. Yu

Personalized recommendation is ubiquitous, playing an important role in many online services. Substantial research has been dedicated to learning vector representations of users and items with the goal of predicting a user's preference for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianing Sun , Yingxue Zhang , Chen Ma , Mark Coates , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He

This paper presents a solution to the challenges faced by contrastive learning in sequential recommendation systems. In particular, it addresses the issue of false negative, which limits the effectiveness of recommendation algorithms. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jaeheyoung Jeon , Jung Hyun Ryu , Jewoong Cho , Myungjoo Kang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success in recommender systems by representing users and items based on their historical interactions. However, little attention was paid to GNN's vulnerability to exposure bias: users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Minseok Kim , Jinoh Oh , Jaeyoung Do , Sungjin Lee

Graph neural network (GNN) based recommender systems have become one of the mainstream trends due to the powerful learning ability from user behavior data. Understanding the user intents from behavior data is the key to recommender systems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Yuling Wang , Xiao Wang , Xiangzhou Huang , Yanhua Yu , Haoyang Li , Mengdi Zhang , Zirui Guo , Wei Wu

Collaborative filtering (CF) stands as a cornerstone in recommender systems, yet effectively leveraging the massive unlabeled data presents a significant challenge. Current research focuses on addressing the challenge of unlabeled data by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuhan Zhao , Rui Chen , Qilong Han , Hongtao Song , Li Chen

Contrastive learning has recently established itself as a powerful self-supervised learning framework for extracting rich and versatile data representations. Broadly speaking, contrastive learning relies on a data augmentation scheme to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Ilgee Hong , Huy Tran , Claire Donnat

Collaborative Filtering (CF) based recommendation methods have been widely studied, which can be generally categorized into two types, i.e., representation learning-based CF methods and matching function learning-based CF methods.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi-Yuan Hu , Jin Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Chang-Dong Wang , Ling Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Sequential recommendation aims at understanding user preference by capturing successive behavior correlations, which are usually represented as the item purchasing sequences based on their past interactions. Existing efforts generally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yifang Qin , Wei Ju , Hongjun Wu , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

Graph-based models and contrastive learning have emerged as prominent methods in Collaborative Filtering (CF). While many existing models in CF incorporate these methods in their design, there seems to be a limited depth of analysis…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yihong Wu , Le Zhang , Fengran Mo , Tianyu Zhu , Weizhi Ma , Jian-Yun Nie

In recommendation, graph-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods mitigate the data sparsity by introducing Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL). However, the random negative sampling strategy in these GCL-based CF models neglects the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Lei Han , Hui Yan , Zhicheng Qiao

Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in the absence of task-specific labels. However, its scalability on large-scale graphs is hindered by the intensive message…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Xiang Chen , Kun Yue , Wenjie Liu , Zhenyu Zhang , Liang Duan

Social recommendation leverages social network to complement user-item interaction data for recommendation task, aiming to mitigate the data sparsity issue in recommender systems. However, existing social recommendation methods encounter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Wenjie Chen , Yi Zhang , Honghao Li , Lei Sang , Yiwen Zhang

Graph-based collaborative filtering methods have prevailing performance for recommender systems since they can capture high-order information between users and items, in which the graphs are constructed from the observed user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Hongjian Gu , Yaochen Hu , Yingxue Zhang

Because implicit user feedback for the collaborative filtering (CF) models is biased toward popular items, CF models tend to yield recommendation lists with popularity bias. Previous studies have utilized inverse propensity weighting (IPW)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jae-woong Lee , Seongmin Park , Mincheol Yoon , Jongwuk Lee