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Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach for recommender systems. One way to perform collaborative filtering is matrix factorization, which characterizes user preferences and item attributes using latent vectors. These latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-15 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Kenro Aihara , Atsuhiro Takasu

This paper studies the item-to-item recommendation problem in recommender systems from a new perspective of metric learning via implicit feedback. We develop and investigate a personalizable deep metric model that captures both the internal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Trong Nghia Hoang , Anoop Deoras , Tong Zhao , Jin Li , George Karypis

Alternative recommender systems are critical for ecommerce companies. They guide customers to explore a massive product catalog and assist customers to find the right products among an overwhelming number of options. However, it is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Mingming Guo , Nian Yan , Xiquan Cui , San He Wu , Unaiza Ahsan , Rebecca West , Khalifeh Al Jadda

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

At the heart of contemporary recommender systems (RSs) are latent factor models that provide quality recommendation experience to users. These models use embedding vectors, which are typically of a uniform and fixed size, to represent users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yunke Qu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

We propose a unified product embedded representation that is optimized for the task of retrieval-based product recommendation. To this end, we introduce a new way to fuse modality-specific product embeddings into a joint product embedding,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Thomas Nedelec , Elena Smirnova , Flavian Vasile

Recommender systems are ubiquitous in the domain of e-commerce, used to improve the user experience and to market inventory, thereby increasing revenue for the site. Techniques such as item-based collaborative filtering are used to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Daniel A. Galron , Yuri M. Brovman , Jin Chung , Michal Wieja , Paul Wang

Training recommender systems for next-item recommendation often requires unique embeddings to be learned for each item, which may take up most of the trainable parameters for a model. Shared embeddings, such as using content information,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 M. Jeffrey Mei , Florian Henkel , Samuel E. Sandberg , Oliver Bembom , Andreas F. Ehmann

Recommender systems assist users in navigating complex information spaces and focus their attention on the content most relevant to their needs. Often these systems rely on user activity or descriptions of the content. Social annotation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Greg Zanotti , Miller Horvath , Lucas Nunes Barbosa , Venkata Trinadh Kumar Gupta Immedisetty , Jonathan Gemmell

This paper proposes Text mAtching based SequenTial rEcommendation model (TASTE), which maps items and users in an embedding space and recommends items by matching their text representations. TASTE verbalizes items and user-item interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Zhenghao Liu , Sen Mei , Chenyan Xiong , Xiaohua Li , Shi Yu , Zhiyuan Liu , Yu Gu , Ge Yu

Estimating position bias is a well-known challenge in Learning to Rank (L2R). Click data in e-commerce applications, such as targeted advertisements and search engines, provides implicit but abundant feedback to improve personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shion Ishikawa , Yun Ching Liu , Young-Joo Chung , Yu Hirate

We benchmark foundation models image embeddings for classification and retrieval in e-Commerce, evaluating their suitability for real-world applications. Our study spans embeddings from pre-trained convolutional and transformer models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Urszula Czerwinska , Cenk Bircanoglu , Jeremy Chamoux

Word embeddings (e.g., word2vec) have been applied successfully to eCommerce products through~\textit{prod2vec}. Inspired by the recent performance improvements on several NLP tasks brought by contextualized embeddings, we propose to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Federico Bianchi , Bingqing Yu , Jacopo Tagliabue

The main idea of this paper is to represent shopping items through vectors because these vectors act as the base for building em- beddings for customers and shopping carts. Also, these vectors are input to the mathematical models that act…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Bibek Behera , Manoj Joshi , Abhilash KK , Mohammad Ansari Ismail

Over the past decade, recommender systems have experienced a surge in popularity. Despite notable progress, they grapple with challenging issues, such as high data dimensionality and sparseness. Representing users and items as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Pedro R. Pires , Tiago A. Almeida

Result relevance scoring is critical to e-commerce search user experience. Traditional information retrieval methods focus on keyword matching and hand-crafted or counting-based numeric features, with limited understanding of item semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Rui Li , Wen-Yun Yang , Guoyu Tang , Chaoyi Ma , Yun Xiao , Eric Zhao

In this work, we tackle the challenge of recommending emerging items, whose interactions gradually accumulate over time. Existing methods often overlook this dynamic process, typically assuming that emerging items have few or even no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Ziying Zhang , Quanming Yao , Yaqing Wang

Neural network approaches in recommender systems have shown remarkable success by representing a large set of items as a learnable vector embedding table. However, infrequent items may suffer from inadequate training opportunities, making…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Jinseok Seol , Minseok Gang , Sang-goo Lee , Jaehui Park

In this work, we address the problem of recommending jobs to university students. For this, we explore the utilization of neural item embeddings for the task of content-based recommendation, and we propose to integrate the factors of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Markus Reiter-Haas , Valentin Slawicek , Elisabeth Lex

Following recent successes in exploiting both latent factor and word embedding models in recommendation, we propose a novel Regularized Multi-Embedding (RME) based recommendation model that simultaneously encapsulates the following ideas…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Thanh Tran , Kyumin Lee , Yiming Liao , Dongwon Lee