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Sequential recommendation tasks, which aim to predict the next item a user will interact with, typically rely on models trained solely on historical data. However, in real-world scenarios, user behavior can fluctuate in the long interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhaoqi Yang , Yanan Wang , Yong Ge

Generative, explainable, and flexible recommender systems, derived using Large Language Models (LLM) are promising and poorly adapted to the cold-start user situation, where there is little to no history of interaction. The current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Yushang Zhao , Huijie Shen , Dannier Li , Lu Chang , Chengrui Zhou , Yinuo Yang

In collaborative filtering, it is an important way to make full use of social information to improve the recommendation quality, which has been proved to be effective because user behavior will be affected by her friends. However, existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Yunzhe Li , Yue Ding , Bo Chen , Xin Xin , Yule Wang , Yuxiang Shi , Ruiming Tang , Dong Wang

A long-standing challenge in developing accurate recommendation models is simulating user behavior, mainly due to the complex and stochastic nature of user interactions. Towards this, one promising line of work has been the use of Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Himanshu Thakur , Eshani Agrawal , Smruthi Mukund

In this paper we propose to solve an important problem in recommendation -- user cold start, based on meta leaning method. Previous meta learning approaches finetune all parameters for each new user, which is both computing and storage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Zhao , Yang Wang , Daxiang Dong , Hao Tian

Last year has witnessed the considerable interest of Large Language Models (LLMs) for their potential applications in recommender systems, which may mitigate the persistent issue of data sparsity. Though large efforts have been made for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ziwei Zhao , Fake Lin , Xi Zhu , Zhi Zheng , Tong Xu , Shitian Shen , Xueying Li , Zikai Yin , Enhong Chen

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction aims to predict the probability that the user will click an item, which has been one of the key tasks in online recommender and advertising systems. In such systems, rich user behavior (viz. long- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Huinan Sun , Guangliang Yu , Pengye Zhang , Bo Zhang , Xingxing Wang , Dong Wang

A common challenge in personalized user preference prediction is the cold-start problem. Due to the lack of user-item interactions, directly learning from the new users' log data causes serious over-fitting problem. Recently, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Runsheng Yu , Yu Gong , Xu He , Bo An , Yu Zhu , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

Modern recommender systems are required to adapt to the change in user preferences and item popularity. Such a problem is known as the temporal dynamics problem, and it is one of the main challenges in recommender system modeling. Different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Nuttapong Chairatanakul , Hoang NT , Xin Liu , Tsuyoshi Murata

The cold-start recommendation is an urgent problem in contemporary online applications. It aims to provide users whose behaviors are literally sparse with as accurate recommendations as possible. Many data-driven algorithms, such as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang , Jian Yu , Changsheng Xu

Recommending the right products is the central problem in recommender systems, but the right products should also be recommended at the right time to meet the demands of users, so as to maximize their values. Users' demands, implying strong…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Ting Bai , Pan Du , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen , Jian-Yun Nie

Accurate short-term passenger flow prediction in urban rail transit stations has great benefits for reasonably allocating resources, easing congestion, and reducing operational risks. However, compared with data-rich stations, the passenger…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Kuo Han , Jinlei Zhang , Chunqi Zhu , Lixing Yang , Xiaoyu Huang , Songsong Li

While large language models (LLMs) have proven effective in leveraging textual data for recommendations, their application to multimodal recommendation tasks remains relatively underexplored. Although LLMs can process multimodal information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Chen Zhang , Bo Hu , Weidong Chen , Zhendong Mao

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in the field of Recommendation Systems (RSs). Most existing studies have focused on converting user behavior logs into textual prompts and leveraging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yuyang Ye , Zhi Zheng , Yishan Shen , Tianshu Wang , Hengruo Zhang , Peijun Zhu , Runlong Yu , Kai Zhang , Hui Xiong

Recent research has achieved impressive progress in the session-based recommendation. However, information such as item knowledge and click time interval, which could be potentially utilized to improve the performance, remains largely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Rongzhi Zhang , Yulong Gu , Xiaoyu Shen , Hui Su

We propose a novel supervised learning technique for summarizing videos by automatically selecting keyframes or key subshots. Casting the problem as a structured prediction problem on sequential data, our main idea is to use Long Short-Term…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Ke Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao , Fei Sha , Kristen Grauman

Practical recommender systems need be periodically retrained to refresh the model with new interaction data. To pursue high model fidelity, it is usually desirable to retrain the model on both historical and new data, since it can account…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Chenxu Wang , Xiangnan He , Meng Wang , Yan Li , Yongdong Zhang

We present a novel dynamic recommendation model that focuses on users who have interactions in the past but turn relatively inactive recently. Making effective recommendations to these time-sensitive cold-start users is critical to maintain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Krishna Prasad Neupane , Ervine Zheng , Yu Kong , Qi Yu

With the information explosion of news articles, personalized news recommendation has become important for users to quickly find news that they are interested in. Existing methods on news recommendation mainly include collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Linmei Hu , Chen Li , Chuan Shi , Cheng Yang , Chao Shao

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in optimizing long-term user interest in recommender systems. However, existing RL-based recommendation methods need a large number of interactions for each user to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yanan Wang , Yong Ge , Li Li , Rui Chen , Tong Xu