English
Related papers

Related papers: A Load Balanced Recommendation Approach

200 papers

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a prevalent and effective methodology for real-world recommender systems, enabling learning policies from historical data and capturing user preferences. In offline RL, reward shaping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Wenzheng Shu , Yanxiang Zeng , Yongxiang Tang , Teng Sha , Ning Luo , Yanhua Cheng , Xialong Liu , Fan Zhou , Peng Jiang

The growth of recommender systems (RecSys) is driven by digitization and the need for personalized content in areas such as e-commerce and video streaming. The content in these systems often changes rapidly and therefore they constantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shiyu Wang , Hao Ding , Yupeng Gu , Sergul Aydore , Kousha Kalantari , Branislav Kveton

Hybrid recommendation usually combines collaborative filtering with content-based filtering to exploit merits of both techniques. It is widely accepted that hybrid filtering outperforms the single algorithm, thus it has been the new trend…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Yuchen Xiao , Ruzhe Zhong

Recommender systems (RS), serving at the forefront of Human-centered AI, are widely deployed in almost every corner of the web and facilitate the human decision-making process. However, despite their enormous capabilities and potential, RS…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Yingqiang Ge , Shuchang Liu , Zuohui Fu , Juntao Tan , Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Yunqi Li , Yikun Xian , Yongfeng Zhang

Learning-to-Rank (LTR) is a supervised machine learning approach that constructs models specifically designed to order a set of items or documents based on their relevance or importance to a given query or context. Despite significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Camilo Gomez , Pengyang Wang , Yanjie Fu

Recommender systems (RSs) provide an effective way of alleviating the information overload problem by selecting personalized choices. Online social networks and user-generated content provide diverse sources for recommendation beyond…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Guang-Neng Hu , Xin-Yu Dai , Yunya Song , Shu-Jian Huang , Jia-Jun Chen

Reciprocal recommender system (RRS), considering a two-way matching between two parties, has been widely applied in online platforms like online dating and recruitment. Existing RRS models mainly capture static user preferences, which have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Bowen Zheng , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yang Song , Hengshu Zhu

Recommender systems are becoming more and more important in our daily lives. However, traditional recommendation methods are challenged by data sparsity and efficiency, as the numbers of users, items, and interactions between the two in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jinyin Chen , Yangyang Wu , Lu Fan , Xiang Lin , Haibin Zheng , Shanqing Yu , Qi Xuan

Recommender systems (RS) are pivotal in managing information overload in modern digital services. A key challenge in RS is efficiently processing vast item pools to deliver highly personalized recommendations under strict latency…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Junjie Huang , Jiarui Qin , Jianghao Lin , Ziming Feng , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Recommender systems can be characterized as software solutions that provide users convenient access to relevant content. Traditionally, recommender systems research predominantly focuses on developing machine learning algorithms that aim to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Dietmar Jannach

Recommender systems serve a dual purpose for users: sifting out inappropriate or mismatched information while accurately identifying items that align with their preferences. Numerous recommendation algorithms are designed to provide users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chaoguang Luo , Liuying Wen , Yong Qin , Liangwei Yang , Zhineng Hu , Philip S. Yu

Embedding-based retrieval (EBR) methods are widely used in modern recommender systems thanks to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, along the journey of deploying and iterating on EBR in production, we still identify some fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuan Zhang , Xue Dong , Weijie Ding , Biao Li , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

With the exponential increase in information, it has become imperative to design mechanisms that allow users to access what matters to them as quickly as possible. The recommendation system ($RS$) with information technology development is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Manar Mohamed Hafez , Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo , Ana Fernández-Vilas , Héctor Olivera Pazó

Recommender Systems use the user's profile to generate a recommendation list with unknown items to a target user. Although the primary goal of traditional recommendation systems is to deliver the most relevant items, such an effort…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Diego Corrêa da Silva , Frederico Araújo Durão

Two typical forms of bias in user interaction data with recommender systems (RSs) are popularity bias and positivity bias, which manifest themselves as the over-representation of interactions with popular items or items that users prefer,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Jin Huang , Harrie Oosterhuis , Masoud Mansoury , Herke van Hoof , Maarten de Rijke

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

With the advent of the information explosion era, the importance of recommendation systems in various applications is increasingly significant. Traditional collaborative filtering algorithms are widely used due to their effectiveness in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xueting Lin , Zhan Cheng , Longfei Yun , Qingyi Lu , Yuanshuai Luo

With the rapid growth of Internet services, recommendation systems play a central role in delivering personalized content. Faced with massive user requests and complex model architectures, the key challenge for real-time recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Junli Shao , Jing Dong , Dingzhou Wang , Kowei Shih , Dannier Li , Chengrui Zhou

The growing popularity of language models has sparked interest in conversational recommender systems (CRS) within both industry and research circles. However, concerns regarding biases in these systems have emerged. While individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Armin Moradi , Golnoosh Farnadi

In this paper we present a method for reformulating the Recommender Systems problem in an Information Retrieval one. In our tests we have a dataset of users who give ratings for some movies; we hide some values from the dataset, and we try…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Alberto Costa , Fabio Roda