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The importance of recommender systems is growing rapidly due to the exponential increase in the volume of content generated daily. This surge in content presents unique challenges for designing effective recommender systems. Key among these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jiahao Tian , Jinman Zhao , Zhenkai Wang , Zhicheng Ding

We consider the optimization of distributed resource scheduling to minimize the sum of task latency and energy consumption for all the Internet of things devices (IoTDs) in a large-scale mobile edge computing (MEC) system. To address this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Feibo Jiang , Li Dong , Kezhi Wang , Kun Yang , Cunhua Pan

In recommendation systems, diversity and novelty are essential for capturing varied user preferences and encouraging exploration, yet many systems prioritize click relevance. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been explored to improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Jiin Woo , Alireza Bagheri Garakani , Tianchen Zhou , Zhishen Huang , Yan Gao

Modern recommender systems aim to deeply understand users' complex preferences through their past interactions. While deep collaborative filtering approaches using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) excel at capturing user-item relationships,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yangqin Jiang , Yuhao Yang , Lianghao Xia , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin , Chao Huang

Over recent years, deep reinforcement learning has shown strong successes in complex single-agent tasks, and more recently this approach has also been applied to multi-agent domains. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Aleksandra Malysheva , Daniel Kudenko , Aleksei Shpilman

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved significant breakthroughs in various tasks. However, most DRL algorithms suffer a problem of generalizing the learned policy which makes the learning performance largely affected even by minor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Zhengyao Jiang , Shan Luo

In multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL), it is challenging for a collection of agents to learn complex temporally extended tasks. The difficulties lie in computational complexity and how to learn the high-level ideas behind reward…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Jueming Hu , Zhe Xu , Weichang Wang , Guannan Qu , Yutian Pang , Yongming Liu

Over recent years, deep reinforcement learning has shown strong successes in complex single-agent tasks, and more recently this approach has also been applied to multi-agent domains. In this paper, we propose a novel approach, called…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Aleksandra Malysheva , Tegg Taekyong Sung , Chae-Bong Sohn , Daniel Kudenko , Aleksei Shpilman

The group recommendation (GR) aims to suggest items for a group of users in social networks. Existing work typically considers individual preferences as the sole factor in aggregating group preferences. Actually, social influence is also an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Guangze Ye , Wen Wu , Guoqing Wang , Xi Chen , Hong Zheng , Liang He

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been proven its efficiency in capturing users' dynamic interests in recent literature. However, training a DRL agent is challenging, because of the sparse environment in recommender systems (RS), DRL…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Xiaocong Chen , Siyu Wang , Lina Yao , Lianyong Qi , Yong Li

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) demonstrates its potential in learning a model-free navigation policy for robot visual navigation. However, the data-demanding algorithm relies on a large number of navigation trajectories in training.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Kaichun Mo , Haoxiang Li , Zhe Lin , Joon-Young Lee

In recommender systems, the user-item interaction data is usually sparse and not sufficient for learning comprehensive user/item representations for recommendation. To address this problem, we propose a novel dual-bridging recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Jingwei Ma , Jiahui Wen , Mingyang Zhong , Liangchen Liu , Chaojie Li , Weitong Chen , Yin Yang , Honghui Tu , Xue Li

A major challenge in recommender systems is handling new users, whom are also called $\textit{cold-start}$ users. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for learning an optimal series of questions with which to interview cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Hima Varsha Dureddy , Zachary Kaden

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is a powerful framework for solving complex sequential decision-making problems, particularly in robotic control. However, its practical deployment is often hindered by the substantial amount of experience…

Click-through rate prediction plays an important role in the field of recommender system and many other applications. Existing methods mainly extract user interests from user historical behaviors. However, behavioral sequences only contain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Yunfei Chu , Xiaofu Chang , Kunyang Jia , Jingzhen Zhou , Hongxia Yang

In multi-stage recommender systems, reranking optimizes overall utility by capturing intra-list contextual dependencies, yet its central challenge lies in exploring optimal sequences within an exponentially large permutation space. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chaotian Song , Jingyao Zhang , Chenghao Chen , Zisen Sang , Dehai Zhao , Guodong Cao , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai , Jia Jia

In this paper, we propose a novel personalized decision support system that combines Theory of Mind (ToM) modeling and explainable Reinforcement Learning (XRL) to provide effective and interpretable interventions. Our method leverages DRL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Huao Li , Yao Fan , Keyang Zheng , Michael Lewis , Katia Sycara

Model-based offline reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for recommender systems, enabling effective policy learning by interacting with frozen world models. However, the reward functions in these world models,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yi Zhang , Ruihong Qiu , Xuwei Xu , Jiajun Liu , Sen Wang

Generative recommendations (GR), which usually include item tokenizers and generative Large Language Models (LLMs), have demonstrated remarkable success across a wide range of scenarios. The majority of existing research efforts primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yejing Wang , Shengyu Zhou , Jinyu Lu , Qidong Liu , Xinhang Li , Wenlin Zhang , Feng Li , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

Besides independent learning, human learning process is highly improved by summarizing what has been learned, communicating it with peers, and subsequently fusing knowledge from different sources to assist the current learning goal. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Kaixiang Lin , Shu Wang , Jiayu Zhou