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In this paper, we propose a robust sequential learning strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback mainly in the form of clicks. Our approach relies on the minimization of a pairwise ranking loss over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Alexandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

In this work, we dive deep into the impact of additive noise in pre-training deep networks. While various methods have attempted to use additive noise inspired by the success of latent denoising diffusion models, when used in combination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Hyesong Choi , Daeun Kim , Sungmin Cha , Kwang Moo Yi , Dongbo Min

In this paper, we introduced the novel concept of advisor network to address the problem of noisy labels in image classification. Deep neural networks (DNN) are prone to performance reduction and overfitting problems on training data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Simone Ricci , Tiberio Uricchio , Alberto Del Bimbo

Randomized smoothing is a technique for providing provable robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks while making minimal assumptions about a classifier. This method relies on taking a majority vote of any base classifier over…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ambar Pal , Jeremias Sulam

Image-based diagnostic decision support systems (DDSS) utilizing deep learning have the potential to optimize clinical workflows. However, developing DDSS requires extensive datasets with expert annotations and is therefore costly.…

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The interaction data used by recommender systems (RSs) inevitably include noises resulting from mistaken or exploratory clicks, especially under implicit feedbacks. Without proper denoising, RS models cannot effectively capture users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-20 Yanchao Tan , Carl Yang Member , Xiangyu Wei , Ziyue Wu , Xiaolin Zheng

Due to the difficulty of acquiring large-scale explicit user feedback, implicit feedback (e.g., clicks or other interactions) is widely applied as an alternative source of data, where user-item interactions can be modeled as a bipartite…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Xinyu He , Jose Sepulveda , Mostafa Rahmani , Alyssa Woo , Fei Wang , Hanghang Tong

Negative sampling methods are vital in implicit recommendation models as they allow us to obtain negative instances from massive unlabeled data. Most existing approaches focus on sampling hard negative samples in various ways. These studies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Fuyuan Lyu , Yaochen Hu , Xing Tang , Yingxue Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xue Liu

Sequential recommenders have been widely used in industry due to their strength in modeling user preferences. While these models excel at learning a user's positive interests, less attention has been paid to learning from negative user…

In recent years, neural models have been repeatedly touted to exhibit state-of-the-art performance in recommendation. Nevertheless, multiple recent studies have revealed that the reported state-of-the-art results of many neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Yushun Dong , Jundong Li , Tobias Schnabel

In real-world applications, users always interact with items in multiple aspects, such as through implicit binary feedback (e.g., clicks, dislikes, long views) and explicit feedback (e.g., comments, reviews). Modern recommendation systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Shuo Yang , Jiangxia Cao , Haipeng Li , Yuqi Mao , Shuchao Pang

Recommender systems play a crucial role in mitigating the problem of information overload by suggesting users' personalized items or services. The vast majority of traditional recommender systems consider the recommendation procedure as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Xiangyu Zhao , Liang Zhang , Zhuoye Ding , Long Xia , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

In feature-based dynamic pricing, a seller sets appropriate prices for a sequence of products (described by feature vectors) on the fly by learning from the binary outcomes of previous sales sessions ("Sold" if valuation $\geq$ price, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jianyu Xu , Yu-Xiang Wang

We propose self-adaptive training -- a unified training algorithm that dynamically calibrates and enhances training processes by model predictions without incurring an extra computational cost -- to advance both supervised and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Chao Zhang , Hongyang Zhang

Learning and decision-making in domains with naturally high noise-to-signal ratio, such as Finance or Healthcare, is often challenging, while the stakes are very high. In this paper, we study the problem of learning and acting under a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yikai Zhang , Songzhu Zheng , Mina Dalirrooyfard , Pengxiang Wu , Anderson Schneider , Anant Raj , Yuriy Nevmyvaka , Chao Chen

Falsely annotated samples, also known as noisy labels, can significantly harm the performance of deep learning models. Two main approaches for learning with noisy labels are global noise estimation and data filtering. Global noise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Yuval Grinberg , Nimrod Harel , Jacob Goldberger , Ofir Lindenbaum

In real-world recommender systems, implicitly collected user feedback, while abundant, often includes noisy false-positive and false-negative interactions. The possible misinterpretations of the user-item interactions pose a significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Zixuan Yi , Xi Wang , Iadh Ounis

In this paper, we propose a novel ranking framework for collaborative filtering with the overall aim of learning user preferences over items by minimizing a pairwise ranking loss. We show the minimization problem involves dependent random…

Item recommendation is the task of predicting a personalized ranking on a set of items (e.g. websites, movies, products). In this paper, we investigate the most common scenario with implicit feedback (e.g. clicks, purchases). There are many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Steffen Rendle , Christoph Freudenthaler , Zeno Gantner , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

To discover intrinsic inter-class transition probabilities underlying data, learning with noise transition has become an important approach for robust deep learning on corrupted labels. Prior methods attempt to achieve such transition…

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