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Recommender systems aim to help users find relevant items more quickly by providing personalized recommendations. Explanations in recommender systems help users understand why such recommendations have been generated, which in turn makes…

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Learning personalization has proven its effectiveness in enhancing learner performance. Therefore, modern digital learning platforms have been increasingly depending on recommendation systems to offer learners personalized suggestions of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Hasan Abu-Rasheed , Christian Weber , Madjid Fathi

Category recommendation for users on an e-Commerce platform is an important task as it dictates the flow of traffic through the website. It is therefore important to surface precise and diverse category recommendations to aid the users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Ramasubramanian Balasubramanian , Venugopal Mani , Abhinav Mathur , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

LLM-based coding agents have shown strong performance on automated issue resolution benchmarks, yet existing evaluations largely focus on final task success, providing limited insight into how agents retrieve and use code context during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Han Li , Letian Zhu , Bohan Zhang , Rili Feng , Jiaming Wang , Yue Pan , Earl T. Barr , Federica Sarro , Zhaoyang Chu , He Ye

Showing items that do not match search query intent degrades customer experience in e-commerce. These mismatches result from counterfactual biases of the ranking algorithms toward noisy behavioral signals such as clicks and purchases in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Thanh V. Nguyen , Nikhil Rao , Karthik Subbian

With the increasing demand for predictable and accountable Artificial Intelligence, the ability to explain or justify recommender systems results by specifying how items are suggested, or why they are relevant, has become a primary goal.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Noemi Mauro , Zhongli Filippo Hu , Liliana Ardissono

Recommendation models are predominantly trained using implicit user feedback, since explicit feedback is often costly to obtain. However, implicit feedback, such as clicks, does not always reflect users' real preferences. For example, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Mengchen Zhao , Yifan Gao , Yaqing Hou , Xiangyang Li , Pengjie Gu , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Yi Cai

Recommender systems are widely used to recommend the most appealing items to users. These recommendations can be generated by applying collaborative filtering methods. The low-rank matrix completion method is the state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Mohit Sharma , George Karypis

Ranking models are extensively used in e-commerce for relevance estimation. These models often suffer from poor interpretability and no scale calibration, particularly when trained with typical ranking loss functions. This paper addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Piotr Bajger , Roman Dusek , Krzysztof Galias , Paweł Młyniec , Aleksander Wawer , Paweł Zawistowski

A large number of empirical studies on applying self-attention models in the domain of recommender systems are based on offline evaluation and metrics computed on standardized datasets, without insights on how these models perform in real…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Marjan Celikik , Jacek Wasilewski , Sahar Mbarek , Pablo Celayes , Pierre Gagliardi , Duy Pham , Nour Karessli , Ana Peleteiro Ramallo

In this paper, we investigate the recommendation task in the most common scenario with implicit feedback (e.g., clicks, purchases). State-of-the-art methods in this direction usually cast the problem as to learn a personalized ranking on a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yan Gao , Jiafeng Guo , Yanyan Lan , Huaming Liao

With the recent increase in data online, discovering meaningful opportunities can be time-consuming and complicated for many individuals. To overcome this data overload challenge, we present a novel text-content-based recommender system as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Kazem Qazanfari , Abdou Youssef , Kai Keane , Joseph Nelson

Recommendation plays a key role in e-commerce, enhancing user experience and boosting commercial success. Existing works mainly focus on recommending a set of items, but online e-commerce platforms have recently begun to pay attention to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qihao Wang , Pritom Saha Akash , Varvara Kollia , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Biwei Jiang , Vadim Von Brzeski

Most existing recommender systems leverage user behavior data of one type only, such as the purchase behavior in E-commerce that is directly related to the business KPI (Key Performance Indicator) of conversion rate. Besides the key…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chen Gao , Xiangnan He , Dahua Gan , Xiangning Chen , Fuli Feng , Yong Li , Tat-Seng Chua , Lina Yao , Yang Song , Depeng Jin

Contextual information in search sessions is important for capturing users' search intents. Various approaches have been proposed to model user behavior sequences to improve document ranking in a session. Typically, training samples of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Yutao Zhu , Jian-Yun Nie , Yixuan Su , Haonan Chen , Xinyu Zhang , Zhicheng Dou

In e-commerce shopping, aligning search results with a buyer's immediate needs and preferences presents a significant challenge, particularly in adapting search results throughout the buyer's shopping journey as they move from the initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Taoran Sheng , Sathappan Muthiah , Atiq Islam , Jinming Feng

Learning to rank is an important problem in machine learning and recommender systems. In a recommender system, a user is typically recommended a list of items. Since the user is unlikely to examine the entire recommended list, partial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Prakhar Gupta , Gaurush Hiranandani , Harvineet Singh , Branislav Kveton , Zheng Wen , Iftikhar Ahamath Burhanuddin

A key challenge in reward learning from human input is that desired agent behavior often changes based on context. For example, a robot must adapt to avoid a stove once it becomes hot. We observe that while high-level preferences (e.g.,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Alexandra Forsey-Smerek , Julie Shah , Andreea Bobu

The growing popularity of Virtual Assistants poses new challenges for Entity Resolution, the task of linking mentions in text to their referent entities in a knowledge base. Specifically, in the shopping domain, customers tend to use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Ying Lin , Han Wang , Jiangning Chen , Tong Wang , Yue Liu , Heng Ji , Yang Liu , Premkumar Natarajan

E-commerce queries are often short and ambiguous. Consequently, query understanding often uses query rewriting to disambiguate user-input queries. While using e-commerce search tools, users tend to enter multiple searches, which we call…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Simiao Zuo , Qingyu Yin , Haoming Jiang , Shaohui Xi , Bing Yin , Chao Zhang , Tuo Zhao