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Recently, conversational recommender system (CRS) has become an emerging and practical research topic. Most of the existing CRS methods focus on learning effective preference representations for users from conversation data alone. While, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hui Wang , Sirui Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) engage with users by inferring user preferences from dialog history, providing accurate recommendations, and generating appropriate responses. Previous CRSs use knowledge graph (KG) based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Bowen Yang , Cong Han , Yu Li , Lei Zuo , Zhou Yu

In Conversational Recommendation System (CRS), an agent is asked to recommend a set of items to users within natural language conversations. To address the need for both conversational capability and personalized recommendations, prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Yeongseo Jung , Eunseo Jung , Lei Chen

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) dynamically obtain the user preferences via multi-turn questions and answers. The existing CRS solutions are widely dominated by deep reinforcement learning algorithms. However, deep reinforcement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-01 A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque , Hongning Wang

The growing popularity of language models has sparked interest in conversational recommender systems (CRS) within both industry and research circles. However, concerns regarding biases in these systems have emerged. While individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Armin Moradi , Golnoosh Farnadi

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend suitable items to users through natural language conversations. For developing effective CRSs, a major technical issue is how to accurately infer user preference from very limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yuanhang Zhou , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Cheng Wang , Peng Jiang , He Hu

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through interactive conversations. Although several efforts have been made for CRS, two major issues still remain to be solved. First, the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Shuqing Bian , Yuanhang Zhou , Ji-Rong Wen , Jingsong Yu

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to provide recommendation services via natural language conversations. Although a number of approaches have been proposed for developing capable CRSs, they typically rely on sufficient training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaolei Wang , Kun Zhou , Xinyu Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Fan Pan , Zhao Cao , Ji-Rong Wen

In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), the central question is how the conversational agent can naturally ask for user preferences and provide suitable recommendations. Existing works mainly follow the hierarchical architecture,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xian Li , Hongguang Shi , Yunfei Wang , Yeqin Zhang , Xubin Li , Cam-Tu Nguyen

Conversational recommender systems aim to provide personalized recommendations via natural language interactions. However, existing approaches either decouple recommendation from dialog generation or rely on retrieval-based pipelines,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) that are able to interact with users in natural language often utilize recommendation dialogs which were previously collected with the help of paired humans, where one plays the role of a seeker and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar Jannach

In recent years, conversational recommender system (CRS) has received much attention in the research community. However, existing studies on CRS vary in scenarios, goals and techniques, lacking unified, standardized implementation or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Kun Zhou , Xiaolei Wang , Yuanhang Zhou , Chenzhan Shang , Yuan Cheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Ji-Rong Wen

Connecting conversation with external domain knowledge is vital for conversational recommender systems (CRS) to correctly understand user preferences. However, existing solutions either require domain-specific engineering, which limits…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Dayu Yang , Hui Fang

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have shown great success in accurately capturing a user's current and detailed preference through the multi-round interaction cycle while effectively guiding users to a more personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Recommender systems are embracing conversational technologies to obtain user preferences dynamically, and to overcome inherent limitations of their static models. A successful Conversational Recommender System (CRS) requires proper handling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Yisong Miao , Qingyun Wu , Richang Hong , Min-Yen Kan , Tat-Seng Chua

There has been growing interest in using neural networks and deep learning techniques to create dialogue systems. Conversational recommendation is an interesting setting for the scientific exploration of dialogue with natural language as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Raymond Li , Samira Kahou , Hannes Schulz , Vincent Michalski , Laurent Charlin , Chris Pal

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are designed to suggest the target item that the user is likely to prefer through multi-turn conversations. Recent studies stress that capturing sentiments in user conversations improves…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Heejin Kook , Junyoung Kim , Seongmin Park , Jongwuk Lee

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide the recommendation service via natural language conversations. To develop an effective CRS, high-quality CRS datasets are very crucial. However, existing CRS datasets suffer from the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zhipeng Zhao , Kun Zhou , Xiaolei Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Fan Pan , Zhao Cao , Ji-Rong Wen

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide personalized recommendations via interactive dialogues with users. While large language models (LLMs) enhance CRS with their superior understanding of context-aware user preferences,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yaochen Zhu , Chao Wan , Harald Steck , Dawen Liang , Yesu Feng , Nathan Kallus , Jundong Li

Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation models are difficult to answer two important questions well due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Chongming Gao , Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Maarten de Rijke , Tat-Seng Chua