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Recommender systems and search engines serve as foundational elements of online platforms, with the former delivering information proactively and the latter enabling users to seek information actively. Unifying both tasks in a shared model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Jujia Zhao , Wenjie Wang , Chen Xu , Xiuying Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Suzan Verberne

Session-based recommendations (SBRs) capture items' dependencies from the sessions to recommend the next item. In recent years, Graph neural networks (GNN) based SBRs have become the mainstream of SBRs benefited from the superiority of GNN…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Qian Zhang , Wenpeng Lu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a critical technique for enhancing LLM-based deep search agents. However, existing approaches primarily rely on binary outcome rewards, which fail to capture the comprehensiveness and factuality of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jiajie Zhang , Xin Lv , Ling Feng , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

Distant supervision (DS) aims to generate large-scale heuristic labeling corpus, which is widely used for neural relation extraction currently. However, it heavily suffers from noisy labeling and long-tail distributions problem. Many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Jianing Wang

In many online applications interactions between a user and a web-service are organized in a sequential way, e.g., user browsing an e-commerce website. In this setting, recommendation system acts throughout user navigation by showing items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-11 Elena Smirnova

Many sequential decision-making problems that are currently automated, such as those in manufacturing or recommender systems, operate in an environment where there is either little uncertainty, or zero risk of catastrophe. As companies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Marc Rigter

Recently, the reciprocal recommendation, especially for online dating applications, has attracted more and more research attention. Different from conventional recommendation problems, the reciprocal recommendation aims to simultaneously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Linhao Luo , Liqi Yang , Ju Xin , Yixiang Fang , Xiaofeng Zhang , Xiaofei Yang , Kai Chen , Zhiyuan Zhang , Kai Liu

Interactive search can provide a better experience by incorporating interaction feedback from the users. This can significantly improve search accuracy as it helps avoid irrelevant information and captures the users' search intents.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Jianghong Zhou , Joyce C. Ho , Chen Lin , Eugene Agichtein

There exist situations of decision-making under information overload in the Internet, where people have an overwhelming number of available options to choose from, e.g. products to buy in an e-commerce site, or restaurants to visit in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ivan Palomares , Carlos Porcel , Luiz Pizzato , Ido Guy , Enrique Herrera-Viedma

We seek to understand what facilitates sample-efficient learning from historical datasets for sequential decision-making, a problem that is popularly known as offline reinforcement learning (RL). Further, we are interested in algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Thanh Nguyen-Tang , Raman Arora

Recommender systems play an essential role in music streaming services, prominently in the form of personalized playlists. Exploring the user interactions within these listening sessions can be beneficial to understanding the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Sainath Adapa

In recent years, DL has developed rapidly, and personalized services are exploring using DL algorithms to improve the performance of the recommendation system. For personalized services, a successful recommendation consists of two parts:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Jie Zhou , Qian Yu

Recommender systems (RSs) have emerged as very useful tools to help customers with their decision-making process, find items of their interest, and alleviate the information overload problem. There are two different lines of approaches in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shahpar Yakhchi

Boosting sales of e-commerce services is guaranteed once users find more matching items to their interests in a short time. Consequently, recommendation systems have become a crucial part of any successful e-commerce services. Although…

Solving complex problems using reinforcement learning necessitates breaking down the problem into manageable tasks and learning policies to solve these tasks. These policies, in turn, have to be controlled by a master policy that takes…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Ambedkar Dukkipati , Rajarshi Banerjee , Ranga Shaarad Ayyagari , Dhaval Parmar Udaybhai

Sequential recommendation (SR) models often capture user preferences based on the historically interacted item IDs, which usually obtain sub-optimal performance when the interaction history is limited. Content-based sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Donglin Zhou , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Sequential recommendation aims to leverage users' historical behaviors to predict their next interaction. Existing works have not yet addressed two main challenges in sequential recommendation. First, user behaviors in their rich historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Jianxin Chang , Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Yiqun Hui , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

User response prediction makes a crucial contribution to the rapid development of online advertising system and recommendation system. The importance of learning feature interactions has been emphasized by many works. Many deep models are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Yi Yang , Baile Xu , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Sequential recommendation predicts users' next behaviors with their historical interactions. Recommending with longer sequences improves recommendation accuracy and increases the degree of personalization. As sequences get longer, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Qianying Lin , Wen-Ji Zhou , Yanshi Wang , Qing Da , Qing-Guo Chen , Bing Wang

Session-based recommendation (SR) has become an important and popular component of various e-commerce platforms, which aims to predict the next interacted item based on a given session. Most of existing SR models only focus on exploiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Wenjing Meng , Deqing Yang , Yanghua Xiao