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For ambiguous queries, conventional retrieval systems are bound by two conflicting goals. On the one hand, they should diversify and strive to present results for as many query intents as possible. On the other hand, they should provide…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Karthik Raman , Thorsten Joachims , Pannaga Shivaswamy

In recommender systems, users always choose the favorite items to rate, which leads to data missing not at random and poses a great challenge for unbiased evaluation and learning of prediction models. Currently, the doubly robust (DR)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Haoxuan Li , Chunyuan Zheng , Peng Wu

Recommender systems help users find relevant items of interest based on the past preferences of those users. In many domains, however, the tastes and preferences of users change over time due to a variety of factors and recommender systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Farzad Eskandanian , Bamshad Mobasher

Digital platforms such as social media and e-commerce websites adopt Recommender Systems to provide value to the user. However, the social consequences deriving from their adoption are still unclear. Many scholars argue that recommenders…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Erica Coppolillo , Simone Mungari , Ettore Ritacco , Francesco Fabbri , Marco Minici , Francesco Bonchi , Giuseppe Manco

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

Recommendation systems are pervasive in the digital economy. An important assumption in many deployed systems is that user consumption reflects user preferences in a static sense: users consume the content they like with no other…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Andreas Haupt , Dylan Hadfield-Menell , Chara Podimata

Bias in recommender systems not only distorts user experience but also perpetuates and amplifies existing societal stereotypes, particularly in sectors like fashion e-commerce. This study employs a dynamic modeling approach to scrutinize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Mahsa Goodarzi , M. Abdullah Canbaz

Learning user preferences for products based on their past purchases or reviews is at the cornerstone of modern recommendation engines. One complication in this learning task is that some users are more likely to purchase products or review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Wanning Chen , Mohsen Bayati

User interests are usually dynamic in the real world, which poses both theoretical and practical challenges for learning accurate preferences from rich behavior data. Among existing user behavior modeling solutions, attention networks are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Chao Chen , Haoyu Geng , Nianzu Yang , Junchi Yan , Daiyue Xue , Jianping Yu , Xiaokang Yang

Recommendation systems often use online collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms to identify items a given user likes over time, based on ratings that this user and a large number of other users have provided in the past. This problem has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Wasim Huleihel , Soumyabrata Pal , Ofer Shayevitz

Recently, sequential recommendation systems are important in solving the information overload in many online services. Current methods in sequential recommendation focus on learning a fixed number of representations for each user at any…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Jiashu Zhao , Long Xia , Dawei Yin

Matrix factorization is a key component of collaborative filtering-based recommendation systems because it allows us to complete sparse user-by-item ratings matrices under a low-rank assumption that encodes the belief that similar users…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-22 Aleksandr Y. Aravkin , Kush R. Varshney , Liu Yang

In this paper, we investigate the recommendation task in the most common scenario with implicit feedback (e.g., clicks, purchases). State-of-the-art methods in this direction usually cast the problem as to learn a personalized ranking on a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yan Gao , Jiafeng Guo , Yanyan Lan , Huaming Liao

This paper is an extended version of [Burashnikova et al., 2021, arXiv: 2012.06910], where we proposed a theoretically supported sequential strategy for training a large-scale Recommender System (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Franck Iutzeler , Massih-Reza Amini

This paper addresses the challenge of jointly modeling user intent diversity and behavioral uncertainty in recommender systems. A unified representation learning framework is proposed. The framework builds a multi-intent representation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Wei Xu , Jiasen Zheng , Junjiang Lin , Mingxuan Han , Junliang Du

Many recommendation algorithms rely on user data to generate recommendations. However, these recommendations also affect the data obtained from future users. This work aims to understand the effects of this dynamic interaction. We propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-29 Sven Schmit , Carlos Riquelme

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

Sequential recommendation aims to choose the most suitable items for a user at a specific timestamp given historical behaviors. Existing methods usually model the user behavior sequence based on the transition-based methods like Markov…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Fengzhu Wu , Sili Zhang , Hao Gu , Yuexing Hao , Yuguang

Modeling user preference from his historical sequences is one of the core problems of sequential recommendation. Existing methods in this field are widely distributed from conventional methods to deep learning methods. However, most of them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Xueli Yu , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

The rapid growth of short videos has necessitated effective recommender systems to match users with content tailored to their evolving preferences. Current video recommendation models primarily treat each video as a whole, overlooking the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhiyu He , Zhixin Ling , Jiayu Li , Zhiqiang Guo , Weizhi Ma , Xinchen Luo , Min Zhang , Guorui Zhou