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Modeling user's long-term and short-term interests is crucial for accurate recommendation. However, since there is no manually annotated label for user interests, existing approaches always follow the paradigm of entangling these two…

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Multimodal recommender systems (MRS) integrate heterogeneous user and item data, such as text, images, and structured information, to enhance recommendation performance. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) introduces new…

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Contrastive learning has demonstrated promising potential in recommender systems. Existing methods typically construct sparser views by randomly perturbing the original interaction graph, as they have no idea about the authentic user…

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The traditional recommendation systems mainly use offline user data to train offline models, and then recommend items for online users, thus suffering from the unreliable estimation of user preferences based on sparse and noisy historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mengyuan Zhao , Xiaowen Huang , Lixi Zhu , Jitao Sang , Jian Yu

Cross-modal retrieval aims to search for instances, which are semantically related to the query through the interaction of different modal data. Traditional solutions utilize a single-tower or dual-tower framework to explicitly compute the…

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Achieving more powerful semantic representations and semantic understanding is one of the key problems in improving the performance of semantic communication systems. This work focuses on enhancing the semantic understanding of the text…

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Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have advanced with large language models, showing strong results in domains like movies. These domains typically involve fixed content and passive consumption, where user preferences can be matched…

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Large language models (LLMs) exhibit enhanced capabilities in language understanding and generation. By utilizing their embedded knowledge, LLMs are increasingly used as conversational recommender systems (CRS), achieving improved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhenrui Yue , Honglei Zhuang , Zhen Qin , Zhankui He , Huimin Zeng , Julian McAuley , Dong Wang

Bundle recommendation seeks to recommend a bundle of related items to users to improve both user experience and the profits of platform. Existing bundle recommendation models have progressed from capturing only user-bundle interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , Xiang Wang , Yinwei Wei , Xiaoyu Du , Yuyangzi Fu , Tat-Seng Chua

Automatic speech recognition systems have been largely improved in the past few decades and current systems are mainly hybrid-based and end-to-end-based. The recently proposed CTC-CRF framework inherits the data-efficiency of the hybrid…

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Recommender Systems (RS) have significantly advanced online content filtering and personalized decision-making. However, emerging vulnerabilities in RS have catalyzed a paradigm shift towards Trustworthy RS (TRS). Despite substantial…

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Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) shifts the modeling of user preferences from flat to stereoscopic by integrating and learning interaction information from multiple domains at different granularities (ranging from…

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Real-scene image super-resolution aims to restore real-world low-resolution images into their high-quality versions. A typical RealSR framework usually includes the optimization of multiple criteria which are designed for different image…

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Session-based recommendations aim to predict the next behavior of users based on ongoing sessions. The previous works have been modeling the session as a variable-length of a sequence of items and learning the representation of both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Eunkyu Oh , Taehun Kim , Minsoo Kim , Yunhu Ji , Sushil Khyalia

Acquiring valuable data from the rapidly expanding information on the internet has become a significant concern, and recommender systems have emerged as a widely used and effective tool for helping users discover items of interest. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Shuo Yang , Jinze Li , Wei Wang , Xiping Hu , Steven Hoi , Edith Ngai

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to en-hance recommendation quality by transferring knowledge across domains, offering effective solutions to data sparsity and cold-start issues. However, existing methods face three major…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xingzi Wang , Qingtian Bian , Hui Fang

Sequential recommender systems (SRSs) aim to suggest next item for a user based on her historical interaction sequences. Recently, many research efforts have been devoted to attenuate the influence of noisy items in sequences by either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaofei Zhu , Liang Li , Weidong Liu , Xin Luo

Knowledge-based recommendation models effectively alleviate the data sparsity issue leveraging the side information in the knowledge graph, and have achieved considerable performance. Nevertheless, the knowledge graphs used in previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Min Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) often utilize external knowledge graphs (KGs) to introduce rich semantic information and recommend relevant items through natural language dialogues. However, original KGs employed in existing CRSs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Xiaoyu Zhang , Xin Xin , Dongdong Li , Wenxuan Liu , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jun Ma , Zhaochun Ren

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…

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