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In large language models (LLM)-based recommendation systems (LLM-RSs), accurately predicting user preferences by leveraging the general knowledge of LLMs is possible without requiring extensive training data. By converting recommendation…

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This paper presents novel adaptive reduced-rank filtering algorithms based on joint iterative optimization of adaptive filters. The novel scheme consists of a joint iterative optimization of a bank of full-rank adaptive filters that…

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Process Reward Modeling (PRM) is critical for complex reasoning and decision-making tasks where the accuracy of intermediate steps significantly influences the overall outcome. Existing PRM approaches, primarily framed as classification…

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Conversational recommender systems (CRS) dynamically obtain the user preferences via multi-turn questions and answers. The existing CRS solutions are widely dominated by deep reinforcement learning algorithms. However, deep reinforcement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-01 A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque , Hongning Wang

Recommendation systems (RecSys) are designed to connect users with relevant items from a vast pool of candidates while aligning with the business goals of the platform. A typical industrial RecSys is composed of two main stages, retrieval…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Chi Liu , Jiangxia Cao , Rui Huang , Kuo Cai , Weifeng Ding , Qiang Luo , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Social recommender systems exploit users' social relationships to improve the recommendation accuracy. Intuitively, a user tends to trust different subsets of her social friends, regarding with different scenarios. Therefore, the main…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Yong Liu , Peilin Zhao , Xin Liu , Min Wu , Xiao-Li Li

In the vast landscape of internet information, recommender systems (RecSys) have become essential for guiding users through a sea of choices aligned with their preferences. These systems have applications in diverse domains, such as news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Rithesh Murthy , Shelby Heinecke , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems have been widely applied in different real-life scenarios to help us find useful information. In particular, Reinforcement Learning (RL) based recommender systems have become an emerging research topic in recent years,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Yuanguo Lin , Yong Liu , Fan Lin , Lixin Zou , Pengcheng Wu , Wenhua Zeng , Huanhuan Chen , Chunyan Miao

Recommender systems, while transformative in online user experiences, have raised concerns over potential provider-side fairness issues. These systems may inadvertently favor popular items, thereby marginalizing less popular ones and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Saeedeh Karimi , Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Leila Safari

Recommender systems serve as foundational infrastructure in modern information ecosystems, helping users navigate digital content and discover items aligned with their preferences. At their core, recommender systems address a fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Min Hou , Le Wu , Yuxin Liao , Yonghui Yang , Zhen Zhang , Yu Wang , Changlong Zheng , Han Wu , Richang Hong

Optimizing multiple objectives simultaneously is an important task for recommendation platforms to improve their performance. However, this task is particularly challenging since the relationships between different objectives are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

Multi-aspect user preferences are attracting wider attention in recommender systems, as they enable more detailed understanding of users' evaluations of items. Previous studies show that incorporating multi-aspect preferences can greatly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Nan Wang , Hongning Wang

Most recommender systems (RS) research assumes that a user's utility can be maximized independently of the utility of the other agents (e.g., other users, content providers). In realistic settings, this is often not true---the dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Martin Mladenov , Elliot Creager , Omer Ben-Porat , Kevin Swersky , Richard Zemel , Craig Boutilier

Process Reward Models (PRMs) are crucial in complex reasoning and problem-solving tasks (e.g., LLM agents with long-horizon decision-making) by verifying the correctness of each intermediate reasoning step. In real-world scenarios, LLMs may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Xiang Li , Haiyang Yu , Xinghua Zhang , Ziyang Huang , Shizhu He , Kang Liu , Jun Zhao , Fei Huang , Yongbin Li

Recommender systems play a crucial role in mitigating the problem of information overload by suggesting users' personalized items or services. The vast majority of traditional recommender systems consider the recommendation procedure as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Xiangyu Zhao , Liang Zhang , Long Xia , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

In today's digital landscape, Deep Recommender Systems (DRS) play a crucial role in navigating and customizing online content for individual preferences. However, conventional methods, which mainly depend on single recommendation task,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Jingtong Gao , Yuhao Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Pengyue Jia , Qidong Liu , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Sequential recommender infers users' evolving psychological motivations from historical interactions to recommend the next preferred items. Most existing methods compress recent behaviors into a single vector and optimize it toward a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yicheng Di , Yuan Liu , Zhi Chen , Jingcai Guo

Since the inception of Recommender Systems (RS), the accuracy of the recommendations in terms of relevance has been the golden criterion for evaluating the quality of RS algorithms. However, by focusing on item relevance, one pays a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Dusan Stamenkovic , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Xin Xin , Kleomenis Katevas

Implicit feedback is widely explored by modern recommender systems. Since the feedback is often sparse and imbalanced, it poses great challenges to the learning of complex interactions among users and items. Metric learning has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yanchao Tan , Carl Yang , Xiangyu Wei , Yun Ma , Xiaolin Zheng

Recommender systems are a vital tool that helps us to overcome the information overload problem. They are being used by most e-commerce web sites and attract the interest of a broad scientific community. A recommender system uses data on…

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