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To address privacy concerns and reduce network latency, there has been a recent trend of compressing cumbersome recommendation models trained on the cloud and deploying compact recommender models to resource-limited devices for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Ruiqi Zheng , Liang Qu , Tong Chen , Kai Zheng , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

Recommender systems typically represent users and items by learning their embeddings, which are usually set to uniform dimensions and dominate the model parameters. However, real-world recommender systems often operate in streaming…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yunke Qu , Liang Qu , Tong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

In recent years, recommender systems have advanced rapidly, where embedding learning for users and items plays a critical role. A standard method learns a unique embedding vector for each user and item. However, such a method has two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yizhou Chen , Guangda Huzhang , Anxiang Zeng , Qingtao Yu , Hui Sun , Heng-yi Li , Jingyi Li , Yabo Ni , Han Yu , Zhiming Zhou

The embedding-based representation learning is commonly used in deep learning recommendation models to map the raw sparse features to dense vectors. The traditional embedding manner that assigns a uniform size to all features has two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Siyi Liu , Chen Gao , Yihong Chen , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Recommender models are commonly used to suggest relevant items to a user for e-commerce and online advertisement-based applications. These models use massive embedding tables to store numerical representation of items' and users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Muhammad Adnan , Yassaman Ebrahimzadeh Maboud , Divya Mahajan , Prashant J. Nair

At the heart of contemporary recommender systems (RSs) are latent factor models that provide quality recommendation experience to users. These models use embedding vectors, which are typically of a uniform and fixed size, to represent users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yunke Qu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Deep learning for recommendation data is one of the most pervasive and challenging AI workload in recent times. State-of-the-art recommendation models are one of the largest models matching the likes of GPT-3 and Switch Transformer.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Aditya Desai , Li Chou , Anshumali Shrivastava

Recent recommender systems increasingly leverage embeddings from large pre-trained language models (PLMs). However, such embeddings exhibit two key limitations: (1) PLMs are not explicitly optimized to produce structured and discriminative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Guy Hadad , Neomi Rabaev , Bracha Shapira

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Industry-scale recommender systems face a core challenge: representing entities with high cardinality, such as users or items, using dense embeddings that must be accessible during both training and inference. However, as embedding sizes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Petr Kasalický , Martin Spišák , Vojtěch Vančura , Daniel Bohuněk , Rodrigo Alves , Pavel Kordík

To alleviate the problem of information explosion, recommender systems are widely deployed to provide personalized information filtering services. Usually, embedding tables are employed in recommender systems to transform high-dimensional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Shiwei Li , Huifeng Guo , Xing Tang , Ruiming Tang , Lu Hou , Ruixuan Li , Rui Zhang

Recommendation algorithms that incorporate techniques from deep learning are becoming increasingly popular. Due to the structure of the data coming from recommendation domains (i.e., one-hot-encoded vectors of item preferences), these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Joan Serrà , Alexandros Karatzoglou

Over the past decade, recommender systems have experienced a surge in popularity. Despite notable progress, they grapple with challenging issues, such as high data dimensionality and sparseness. Representing users and items as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Pedro R. Pires , Tiago A. Almeida

Providing model-generated explanations in recommender systems is important to user experience. State-of-the-art recommendation algorithms - especially collaborative filtering (CF)-based approaches with shallow or deep models - usually work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Qingyao Ai , Vahid Azizi , Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Deep learning-based recommendation systems (e.g., DLRMs) are widely used AI models to provide high-quality personalized recommendations. Training data used for modern recommendation systems commonly includes categorical features taking on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Gopi Krishna Jha , Anthony Thomas , Nilesh Jain , Sameh Gobriel , Tajana Rosing , Ravi Iyer

With the continuous increase of users and items, conventional recommender systems trained on static datasets can hardly adapt to changing environments. The high-throughput data requires the model to be updated in a timely manner for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bowei He , Xu He , Renrui Zhang , Yingxue Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Chen Ma

Most work in graph-based recommender systems considers a {\em static} setting where all information about test nodes (i.e., users and items) is available upfront at training time. However, this static setting makes little sense for many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Mengyue Hang , Tobias Schnabel , Longqi Yang , Jennifer Neville

Since the creation of the Web, recommender systems (RSs) have been an indispensable mechanism in information filtering. State-of-the-art RSs primarily depend on categorical features, which ecoded by embedding vectors, resulting in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Hung Vinh Tran , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin

Human memory is inherently prone to forgetting. To address this, multimodal embedding models have been introduced, which transform diverse real-world data into a unified embedding space. These embeddings can be retrieved efficiently, aiding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Dongqi Cai , Shangguang Wang , Chen Peng , Zeling Zhang , Mengwei Xu

Embedding techniques have become essential components of large databases in the deep learning era. By encoding discrete entities, such as words, items, or graph nodes, into continuous vector spaces, embeddings facilitate more efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shiwei Li , Zhuoqi Hu , Xing Tang , Haozhao Wang , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li
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