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Speech enhancement has benefited from the success of deep learning in terms of intelligibility and perceptual quality. Conventional time-frequency (TF) domain methods focus on predicting TF-masks or speech spectrum, via a naive convolution…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-24 Yanxin Hu , Yun Liu , Shubo Lv , Mengtao Xing , Shimin Zhang , Yihui Fu , Jian Wu , Bihong Zhang , Lei Xie

Modern recommender systems (RS) work by processing a number of signals that can be inferred from large sets of user-item interaction data. The main signal to analyze stems from the raw matrix that represents interactions. However, we can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Paula Gómez Duran , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Jordi Vitrià , Xin Xin , Ioannis Arapakis

To alleviate sparsity and cold start problem of collaborative filtering based recommender systems, researchers and engineers usually collect attributes of users and items, and design delicate algorithms to exploit these additional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Hongwei Wang , Miao Zhao , Xing Xie , Wenjie Li , Minyi Guo

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven their effectiveness for recommender systems. Existing studies have applied GNNs to capture collaborative relations in the data. However, in real-world scenarios, the relations in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaohan Li , Zhiwei Liu , Stephen Guo , Zheng Liu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu , Kannan Achan

Existing Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) predominantly utilize user simulators for training and evaluating recommendation policies. These simulators often oversimplify the complexity of user interactions by focusing solely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Gangyi Zhang , Chongming Gao , Hang Pan , Runzhe Teng , Ruizhe Li

Personalized review-based rating prediction aims at leveraging existing reviews to model user interests and item characteristics for rating prediction. Most of the existing studies mainly encounter two issues. First, the rich knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Quanxiu Wang , Xinlei Cao , Jianyong Wang , Wei Zhang

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) that are able to interact with users in natural language often utilize recommendation dialogs which were previously collected with the help of paired humans, where one plays the role of a seeker and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

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

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

Advertising click-through rate (CTR) prediction aims to forecast the probability that a user will click on an advertisement in a given context, thus providing enterprises with decision support for product ranking and ad placement. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaowei Xi , Song Leng , Yuqing Gong , Dalin Li

Knowledge graphs contain rich semantic relationships related to items and incorporating such semantic relationships into recommender systems helps to explore the latent connections of items, thus improving the accuracy of prediction and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

Click-through rate (CTR) estimation plays as a core function module in various personalized online services, including online advertising, recommender systems, and web search etc. From 2015, the success of deep learning started to benefit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Weinan Zhang , Jiarui Qin , Wei Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is essential in online advertising, where semantic information plays a pivotal role in shaping user decisions and enhancing CTR effectiveness. Capturing and modeling deep semantic information, such as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Guoxiao Zhang , Yi Wei , Yadong Zhang , Huajian Feng , Qiang Liu

Understanding user interests is crucial for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In sequential recommendation, pre-training from user historical behaviors through self-supervised learning can better comprehend user dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ruidong Han , Qianzhong Li , He Jiang , Rui Li , Yurou Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

In this paper, we study the problem of recommendation system where the users and items to be recommended are rich data structures with multiple entity types and with multiple sources of side-information in the form of graphs. We provide a…

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction on cold users is a challenging task in recommender systems. Recent researches have resorted to meta-learning to tackle the cold-user challenge, which either perform few-shot user representation learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yanyan Shen , Lifan Zhao , Weiyu Cheng , Zibin Zhang , Wenwen Zhou , Kangyi Lin

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, crucial in applications like recommender systems and online advertising, involves ranking items based on the likelihood of user clicks. User behavior sequence modeling has marked progress in CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hengyu Zhang , Chang Meng , Wei Guo , Huifeng Guo , Jieming Zhu , Guangpeng Zhao , Ruiming Tang , Xiu Li

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is an essential task in industrial applications such as video recommendation. Recently, deep learning models have been proposed to learn the representation of users' overall interests, while ignoring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Shu-Ting Shi , Wenhao Zheng , Jun Tang , Qing-Guo Chen , Yao Hu , Jianke Zhu , Ming Li

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) deliver personalised recommendations through multi-turn natural language dialogue and increasingly support both task-oriented and exploratory interactions. Yet, the factors shaping user interaction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Raj Mahmud , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mukesh Prasad , A. Baki Kocaballi

As the deep learning techniques have expanded to real-world recommendation tasks, many deep neural network based Collaborative Filtering (CF) models have been developed to project user-item interactions into latent feature space, based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Huance Xu , Xiang Li , Weiguo Zhang