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Many users struggle to notice when a more efficient workflow exists in feature-rich tools like Excel. Existing AI assistants offer help only after users describe their goals or problems, which can be effortful and imprecise. We present…

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Recommendations can greatly benefit from good representations of the user state at recommendation time. Recent approaches that leverage Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for session-based recommendations have shown that Deep Learning models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Elena Smirnova , Flavian Vasile

Recommender systems aim to fulfill the user's daily demands. While most existing research focuses on maximizing the user's engagement with the system, it has recently been pointed out that how frequently the users come back for the service…

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Product recommender systems and customer profiling techniques have always been a priority in online retail. Recent machine learning research advances and also wide availability of massive parallel numerical computing has enabled various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Andrei Damian , Laurentiu Piciu , Sergiu Turlea , Nicolae Tapus

Learning user representations based on historical behaviors lies at the core of modern recommender systems. Recent advances in sequential recommenders have convincingly demonstrated high capability in extracting effective user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Shengyu Zhang , Dong Yao , Zhou Zhao , Tat-seng Chua , Fei Wu

Interactive image segmentation enables annotators to efficiently perform pixel-level annotation for segmentation tasks. However, the existing interactive segmentation pipeline suffers from inefficient computations of interactive models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 You Huang , Hao Yang , Ke Sun , Shengchuan Zhang , Liujuan Cao , Guannan Jiang , Rongrong Ji

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Panfeng Cao , Pietro Lio

Sequential recommendation recommends items based on sequences of users' historical actions. The key challenge in it is how to effectively model the influence from distant actions to the action to be predicted, i.e., recognizing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Renqin Cai , Qinglei Wang , Chong Wang , Xiaobing Liu

Human fashion understanding is one crucial computer vision task since it has comprehensive information for real-world applications. This focus on joint human fashion segmentation and attribute recognition. Contrary to the previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Shilin Xu , Xiangtai Li , Jingbo Wang , Guangliang Cheng , Yunhai Tong , Dacheng Tao

Sequential recommender systems aim to predict users' next interested item given their historical interactions. However, a long-standing issue is how to distinguish between users' long/short-term interests, which may be heterogeneous and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Muyang Li , Zijian Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Minghao Zhao , Runze Wu , Ruocheng Guo

Many prediction tasks of real-world applications need to model multi-order feature interactions in user's event sequence for better detection performance. However, existing popular solutions usually suffer two key issues: 1) only focusing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Dongbo Xi , Fuzhen Zhuang , Bowen Song , Yongchun Zhu , Shuai Chen , Dan Hong , Tao Chen , Xi Gu , Qing He

Long-sequence modeling has become an indispensable frontier in recommendation systems for capturing users' long-term preferences. However, user behaviors within advertising domains are inherently sparse, posing a significant barrier to…

Personalized recommender systems rely on each user's personal usage data in the system, in order to assist in decision making. However, privacy policies protecting users' rights prevent these highly personal data from being publicly…

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Deep learning-based sequential recommender systems have recently attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry. Most of industrial Embedding-Based Retrieval (EBR) system for recommendation share the similar ideas with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Fuyu Lv , Mengxue Li , Tonglei Guo , Changlong Yu , Fei Sun , Taiwei Jin , Wilfred Ng

Despite the success of deep neural networks, there are still many challenges in deep representation learning due to the data scarcity issues such as data imbalance, unseen distribution, and domain shift. To address the above-mentioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Zhi Hou , Baosheng Yu , Dacheng Tao

Traditional recommender systems primarily rely on a single type of user-item interaction, such as item purchases or ratings, to predict user preferences. However, in real-world scenarios, users engage in a variety of behaviors, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kyungho Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Geon Lee , Jinhong Jung , Kijung Shin

Learning general-purpose user representations based on user behavioral logs is an increasingly popular user modeling approach. It benefits from easily available, privacy-friendly yet expressive data, and does not require extensive re-tuning…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Qixiang Fang , Zhihan Zhou , Francesco Barbieri , Yozen Liu , Leonardo Neves , Dong Nguyen , Daniel L. Oberski , Maarten W. Bos , Ron Dotsch

User experience in modern content discovery applications critically depends on high-quality personalized recommendations. However, building systems that provide such recommendations presents a major challenge due to a massive pool of items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Chantat Eksombatchai , Pranav Jindal , Jerry Zitao Liu , Yuchen Liu , Rahul Sharma , Charles Sugnet , Mark Ulrich , Jure Leskovec

For users navigating travel e-commerce websites, the process of researching products and making a purchase often results in intricate browsing patterns that span numerous sessions over an extended period of time. The resulting clickstream…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-23 William Black , Alexander Manlove , Jack Pennington , Andrea Marchini , Ercument Ilhan , Vilda Markeviciute

User simulators can rapidly generate a large volume of timely user behavior data, providing a testing platform for reinforcement learning-based recommender systems, thus accelerating their iteration and optimization. However, prevalent user…

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