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Learning sophisticated feature interactions behind user behaviors is critical in maximizing CTR for recommender systems. Despite great progress, existing methods seem to have a strong bias towards low- or high-order interactions, or require…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He

In the current deep learning based recommendation system, the embedding method is generally employed to complete the conversion from the high-dimensional sparse feature vector to the low-dimensional dense feature vector. However, as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Huimin Zhou , Qing Li , Yong Jiang , Rongwei Yang , Zhuyun Qi

We consider the problem of generating interpretable recommendations by identifying overlapping co-clusters of clients and products, based only on positive or implicit feedback. Our approach is applicable on very large datasets because it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Reinhard Heckel , Michail Vlachos , Thomas Parnell , Celestine Dünner

Cold-start challenges in recommender systems necessitate leveraging auxiliary features beyond user-item interactions. However, the presence of irrelevant or noisy features can degrade predictive performance, whereas an excessive number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Nikita Sukhorukov , Danil Gusak , Evgeny Frolov

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully used to provide users with personalized products and services. However, dealing with the increasing sparseness of user-item matrix still remains a challenge. To tackle such issue, hybrid CF…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu

The recent integration of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) into recommendation has led to a novel family of Collaborative Filtering (CF) approaches, namely Graph Collaborative Filtering (GCF). Following the same GNNs wave, recommender systems…

Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical interactions. Self-attentive methods have proven effective at capturing short-term dynamics and long-term preferences. Despite their success, these approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiacheng Li , Tong Zhao , Jin Li , Jim Chan , Christos Faloutsos , George Karypis , Soo-Min Pantel , Julian McAuley

Graph neural network (GNN)-based federated recommendation systems effectively capture user-item relationships while preserving data privacy. However, existing methods often face slow convergence on graph data and privacy leakage risks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Zhenxing Yan , Jidong Yuan , Yongqi Sun , Haiyang Liu , Zhihui Gao

Matrix factorization is one of the most efficient approaches in recommender systems. However, such algorithms, which rely on the interactions between users and items, perform poorly for "cold-users" (users with little history of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-18 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

We present ImplicitSLIM, a novel unsupervised learning approach for sparse high-dimensional data, with applications to collaborative filtering. Sparse linear methods (SLIM) and their variations show outstanding performance, but they are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Ilya Shenbin , Sergey Nikolenko

Recommendation Systems apply Information Retrieval techniques to select the online information relevant to a given user. Collaborative Filtering is currently most widely used approach to build Recommendation System. CF techniques uses the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Dheeraj kumar Bokde , Sheetal Girase , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

Matrix factorization (MF) is extensively used to mine the user preference from explicit ratings in recommender systems. However, the reliability of explicit ratings is not always consistent, because many factors may affect the user's final…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Zhipeng Wu , Hui Tian , Xuzhen Zhu , Shuo Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been adopted for recommendation by framing user preference modeling as a language generation problem. However, existing latent reasoning approaches typically represent user intent with a single…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Tianqi Gao , Chengkai Huang , Zihan Wang , Cao Liu , Ke Zeng , Lina Yao

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Hao Wang , Naiyan Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung

Recommender system research suffers from a disconnect between the size of academic data sets and the scale of industrial production systems. In order to bridge that gap, we propose to generate large-scale user/item interaction data sets by…

Dynamic graph clustering aims to detect and track time-varying clusters in dynamic graphs, revealing the evolutionary mechanisms of complex real-world dynamic systems. Matrix factorization-based methods are promising approaches for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Dongyuan Li , Satoshi Kosugi , Ying Zhang , Manabu Okumura , Feng Xia , Renhe Jiang

As a pivotal tool to alleviate the information overload problem, recommender systems aim to predict user's preferred items from millions of candidates by analyzing observed user-item relations. As for alleviating the sparsity and cold start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yue Deng

In this paper, the task-related fMRI problem is treated in its matrix factorization formulation, focused on the Dictionary Learning (DL) approach. The new method allows the incorporation of a priori knowledge associated both with the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-20 Manuel Morante , Yannis Kopsinis , Sergios Theodoridis , Athanassios Protopapas

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have been utilized as useful side information to improve recommendation quality. In those recommender systems, knowledge graph information often contains fruitful facts and inherent semantic relatedness among items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chenliang Li

We study parameter estimation in Nonlinear Factor Analysis (NFA) where the generative model is parameterized by a deep neural network. Recent work has focused on learning such models using inference (or recognition) networks; we identify a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-18 Rahul G. Krishnan , Dawen Liang , Matthew Hoffman