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Multimedia recommendation aims to fuse the multi-modal information of items for feature enrichment to improve the recommendation performance. However, existing methods typically introduce multi-modal information based on collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Haokai Ma , Zhuang Qi , Xinxin Dong , Xiangxian Li , Yuze Zheng , Xiangxu Mengand Lei Meng

Traditional recommender systems such as matrix factorization methods have primarily focused on learning a shared dense embedding space to represent both items and user preferences. Subsequently, sequence models such as RNN, GRUs, and,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yaoyiran Li , Xiang Zhai , Moustafa Alzantot , Keyi Yu , Ivan Vulić , Anna Korhonen , Mohamed Hammad

In this work, we aim to consider the application of contrastive learning in the scenario of the recommendation system adequately, making it more suitable for recommendation task. We propose a learning paradigm called supervised contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Chun Yang

Sequential recommendation aims to predict users' future interactions by modeling collaborative filtering (CF) signals from historical behaviors of similar users or items. Traditional sequential recommenders predominantly rely on ID-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Yingzhi He , Xiaohao Liu , An Zhang , Yunshan Ma , Tat-Seng Chua

The user purchase behaviors are mainly influenced by their intentions (e.g., buying clothes for decoration, buying brushes for painting, etc.). Modeling a user's latent intention can significantly improve the performance of recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Xiuyuan Qin , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Guanfeng Liu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Victor S. Sheng

Collaborative Filtering (CF) has emerged as fundamental paradigms for parameterizing users and items into latent representation space, with their correlative patterns from interaction data. Among various CF techniques, the development of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-29 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Yong Xu , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

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

State-of-the-art pre-trained image models predominantly adopt a two-stage approach: initial unsupervised pre-training on large-scale datasets followed by task-specific fine-tuning using Cross-Entropy loss~(CE). However, it has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Zijun Long , George Killick , Lipeng Zhuang , Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa , Zaiqiao Meng , Richard Mccreadie

A well-informed recommendation framework could not only help users identify their interested items, but also benefit the revenue of various online platforms (e.g., e-commerce, social media). Traditional recommendation models usually assume…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Wei Wei , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

In this paper, we propose a one-stage online clustering method called Contrastive Clustering (CC) which explicitly performs the instance- and cluster-level contrastive learning. To be specific, for a given dataset, the positive and negative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Yunfan Li , Peng Hu , Zitao Liu , Dezhong Peng , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Xi Peng

Recently, some contrastive learning methods have been proposed to simultaneously learn representations and clustering assignments, achieving significant improvements. However, these methods do not take the category information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Huasong Zhong , Jianlong Wu , Chong Chen , Jianqiang Huang , Minghua Deng , Liqiang Nie , Zhouchen Lin , Xian-Sheng Hua

Recommender systems are widely used in various real-world applications, but they often encounter the persistent challenge of the user cold-start problem. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR), which leverages user interactions from one domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Hourun Li , Yifan Wang , Zhiping Xiao , Jia Yang , Changling Zhou , Ming Zhang , Wei Ju

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully employed by many modern recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the user-item interaction data as the sole information source to recommend items to users. However, CF-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Kenan Cui , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang

A well-designed recommender system can accurately capture the attributes of users and items, reflecting the unique preferences of individuals. Traditional recommendation techniques usually focus on modeling the singular type of behaviors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Hongrui Xuan , Yi Liu , Bohan Li , Hongzhi Yin

Collaborative Filtering (CF) based recommendation methods have been widely studied, which can be generally categorized into two types, i.e., representation learning-based CF methods and matching function learning-based CF methods.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi-Yuan Hu , Jin Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Chang-Dong Wang , Ling Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Session-based recommendation, which aims to predict the next item of users' interest as per an existing sequence interaction of items, has attracted growing applications of Contrastive Learning (CL) with improved user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zhengxiang Shi , Xi Wang , Aldo Lipani

We study a particular matching task we call Music Cold-Start Matching. In short, given a cold-start song request, we expect to retrieve songs with similar audiences and then fastly push the cold-start song to the audiences of the retrieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Xinping Zhao , Ying Zhang , Qiang Xiao , Yuming Ren , Yingchun Yang

Predicting Click-Through Rates is a crucial function within recommendation and advertising platforms, as the output of CTR prediction determines the order of items shown to users. The Embedding \& MLP paradigm has become a standard approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Wenqiao Zhu , Lulu Wang , Jun Wu

Despite the popularity of Collaborative Filtering (CF), CF-based methods are haunted by the \textit{cold-start} problem, which has a significantly negative impact on users' experiences with Recommender Systems (RS). In this paper, to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Lei Zheng , Chun-Ta Lu , Fei Jiang , Jiawei Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Contrastive learning (CL) has recently been demonstrated critical in improving recommendation performance. The underlying principle of CL-based recommendation models is to ensure the consistency between representations derived from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Junliang Yu , Xin Xia , Tong Chen , Lizhen Cui , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin