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Binary classifiers are often employed as discriminators in GAN-based unsupervised style transfer systems to ensure that transferred sentences are similar to sentences in the target domain. One difficulty with this approach is that the error…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Zichao Yang , Zhiting Hu , Chris Dyer , Eric P. Xing , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

Deep learning has brought great progress for the sequential recommendation (SR) tasks. With advanced network architectures, sequential recommender models can be stacked with many hidden layers, e.g., up to 100 layers on real-world…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Jiachun Wang , Fajie Yuan , Jian Chen , Qingyao Wu , Min Yang , Yang Sun , Guoxiao Zhang

In sequential recommendation (SR), system exposure refers to items that are exposed to the user. Typically, only a few of the exposed items would be interacted with by the user. Although SR has achieved great success in predicting future…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Ziqi Zhao , Zhaochun Ren , Jiyuan Yang , Zuming Yan , Zihan Wang , Liu Yang , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Maarten de Rijke , Xin Xin

Thanks to their remarkable generative capabilities, GANs have gained great popularity, and are used abundantly in state-of-the-art methods and applications. In a GAN based model, a discriminator is trained to learn the real data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Firas Shama , Roey Mechrez , Alon Shoshan , Lihi Zelnik-Manor

Providing user-understandable explanations to justify recommendations could help users better understand the recommended items, increase the system's ease of use, and gain users' trust. A typical approach to realize it is natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen

Sequential Recommendation (SR) models user dynamics and predicts the next preferred items based on the user history. Existing SR methods model the 'was interacted before' item-item transitions observed in sequences, which can be viewed as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Chen Wang , Peijie Huang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Common tasks encountered in epidemiology, including disease incidence estimation and causal inference, rely on predictive modeling. Constructing a predictive model can be thought of as learning a prediction function, i.e., a function that…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-08-20 Rachael V. Phillips , Mark J. van der Laan , Hana Lee , Susan Gruber

A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currently, the predominant approach to preference elicitation is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski

Ranking is a core task in recommender systems, which aims at providing an ordered list of items to users. Typically, a ranking function is learned from the labeled dataset to optimize the global performance, which produces a ranking score…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-24 Changhua Pei , Yi Zhang , Yongfeng Zhang , Fei Sun , Xiao Lin , Hanxiao Sun , Jian Wu , Peng Jiang , Wenwu Ou

Predicting a user's preference in a short anonymous interaction session instead of long-term history is a challenging problem in the real-life session-based recommendation, e.g., e-commerce and media stream. Recent research of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Ruihong Qiu , Jingjing Li , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item for recommendation based on previously recorded sessions of user interaction. The majority of existing approaches to SR focus on modeling the transition patterns of items. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiahao Yuan , Wendi Ji , Dell Zhang , Jinwei Pan , Xiaoling Wang

Modern sequential recommender systems commonly use transformer-based models for next-item prediction. While these models demonstrate a strong balance between efficiency and quality, integrating interleaving features - such as the query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Andrii Dzhoha , Alisa Mironenko , Evgeny Labzin , Vladimir Vlasov , Maarten Versteegh , Marjan Celikik

Contemporary recommendation systems are designed to meet users' needs by delivering tailored lists of items that align with their specific demands or interests. In a multi-stage recommendation system, reranking plays a crucial role by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yuxin Ren , Qiya Yang , Yichun Wu , Wei Xu , Yalong Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang

One of the key challenges in Sequential Recommendation (SR) is how to extract and represent user preferences. Traditional SR methods rely on the next item as the supervision signal to guide preference extraction and representation. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Muyang Ma , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Huasheng Liang , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke

A core objective in recommender systems is to accurately model the distribution of user preferences over items to enable personalized recommendations. Recently, driven by the strong generative capabilities of large language models (LLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yuanbo Zhao , Ruochen Liu , Senzhang Wang , Jun Yin , Yuxin Dong , Huan Gong , Hao Chen , Shirui Pan , Chengqi Zhang

This paper proposes a method for the automatic creation of variables (in the case of regression) that complement the information contained in the initial input vector. The method works as a pre-processing step in which the continuous values…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Colin Troisemaine , Vincent Lemaire

Next basket recommendation, which aims to predict the next a few items that a user most probably purchases given his historical transactions, plays a vital role in market basket analysis. From the viewpoint of item, an item could be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jingxuan Yang , Jun Xu , Jianzhuo Tong , Sheng Gao , Jun Guo , Jirong Wen

Sequence-to-sequence models have achieved impressive results on various tasks. However, they are unsuitable for tasks that require incremental predictions to be made as more data arrives or tasks that have long input sequences and output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Navdeep Jaitly , David Sussillo , Quoc V. Le , Oriol Vinyals , Ilya Sutskever , Samy Bengio

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm by formulating item recommendation as a sequence-to-sequence generation task over item identifiers. Recent studies have incorporated multimodal signals to provide richer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Wei Chen , Xingyu Guo , Shuang Li , Fuwei Zhang , Meng Yuan , Jing Fan , Zhao Zhang , Deqing Wang , Fuzhen Zhuang

Recommender systems have been investigated for many years, with the aim of generating the most accurate recommendations possible. However, available data about new users is often insufficient, leading to inaccurate recommendations; an issue…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Toon De Pessemier , Sander Vanhove , Luc Martens