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The increasing popularity of real-world recommender systems produces data continuously and rapidly, and it becomes more realistic to study recommender systems under streaming scenarios. Data streams present distinct properties such as…

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Food recommendation system has proven as an effective technology to provide guidance on dietary choices, and this is especially important for patients suffering from chronic diseases. Unlike other multimedia recommendations, such as books…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xinwei Ju , Frank Po Wen Lo , Jianing Qiu , Peilun Shi , Jiachuan Peng , Benny Lo

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled more semantic-aware recommendations through natural language generation. Existing LLM for recommendation (LLM4Rec) methods mostly operate in a System 1-like manner, relying on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Qihang Yu , Kairui Fu , Zheqi Lv , Shengyu Zhang , Xinhui Wu , Chen Lin , Feng Wei , Bo Zheng , Fei Wu

Over the past few years, automation of outfit composition has gained much attention from the research community. Most of the existing outfit recommendation systems focus on pairwise item compatibility prediction (using visual and text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Debopriyo Banerjee , Krothapalli Sreenivasa Rao , Shamik Sural , Niloy Ganguly

Diet management is key to managing chronic diseases such as diabetes. Automated food recommender systems may be able to assist by providing meal recommendations that conform to a user's nutrition goals and food preferences. Current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-23 Ahmed A. Metwally , Ariel K. Leong , Aman Desai , Anvith Nagarjuna , Dalia Perelman , Michael Snyder

Sharing cooking recipes is a great way to exchange culinary ideas and provide instructions for food preparation. However, categorizing raw recipes found online into appropriate food genres can be challenging due to a lack of adequate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Nazmus Sakib , G. M. Shahariar , Md. Mohsinul Kabir , Md. Kamrul Hasan , Hasan Mahmud

A growing proportion of the global population is becoming overweight or obese, leading to various diseases (e.g., diabetes, ischemic heart disease and even cancer) due to unhealthy eating patterns, such as increased intake of food with high…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Weiqing Min , Shuqiang Jiang , Ramesh Jain

Food-choices and eating-habits directly contribute to our long-term health. This makes the food recommender system a potential tool to address the global crisis of obesity and malnutrition. Over the past decade, artificial-intelligence and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Mansura A Khan , Khalil Muhammad , Barry Smyth , David Coyle

While the OneRec series has successfully unified the fragmented recommendation pipeline into an end-to-end generative framework, a significant gap remains between recommendation systems and general intelligence. Constrained by isolated…

Understanding the skill sets and knowledge required for any career is of utmost importance, but it is increasingly challenging in today's dynamic world with rapid changes in terms of the tools and techniques used. Thus, it is especially…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xiang Qian Ong , Kwan Hui Lim

In this paper, we present preliminary results of AFEL-REC, a recommender system for social learning environments. AFEL-REC is build upon a scalable software architecture to provide recommendations of learning resources in near real-time.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Dominik Kowald , Emanuel Lacic , Dieter Theiler , Elisabeth Lex

Food delivery platforms face the challenge of helping users navigate vast catalogs of restaurants and dishes to find meals they truly enjoy. This paper presents RED, an automated recommendation system designed for iFood, Latin America's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Fernando F. Granado , Davi A. Bezerra , Iuri Queiroz , Nathan Oliveira , Pedro Fernandes , Bruno Schock

Users and creators are two crucial components of recommender systems. Typical recommender systems focus on the user side, providing the most suitable items based on each user's request. In such scenarios, a few items receive a majority of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xiaoshuang Chen , Yibo Wang , Yao Wang , Husheng Liu , Kaiqiao Zhan , Ben Wang , Kun Gai

Recommendation systems effectively guide users in locating their desired information within extensive content repositories. Generally, a recommendation model is optimized to enhance accuracy metrics from a user utility standpoint, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xu Huang , Jianxun Lian , Hao Wang , Defu Lian , Xing Xie

By generating new yet effective data, data augmentation has become a promising method to mitigate the data sparsity problem in sequential recommendation. Existing works focus on augmenting the original data but rarely explore the issue of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Yizhou Dang , Jiahui Zhang , Yuting Liu , Enneng Yang , Yuliang Liang , Guibing Guo , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

The modern recommender systems are facing an increasing challenge of modelling and predicting the dynamic and context-rich user preferences. Traditional collaborative filtering and content-based methods often struggle to capture the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yitong Li , Raoul Grasman

In the early 2000s, renowned chef Heston Blumenthal formulated his "food pairing" hypothesis, positing that if foods share many flavor compounds, then they tend to taste good when eaten together. In 2011, Ahn et al. conducted a study using…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-06-25 Giovanni Palermo , Claudio Caprioli , Giambattista Albora

Food image segmentation is a critical task for dietary analysis, enabling accurate estimation of food volume and nutrients. However, current methods suffer from limited multi-view data and poor generalization to new viewpoints. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Ahmad AlMughrabi , Guillermo Rivo , Carlos Jiménez-Farfán , Umair Haroon , Farid Al-Areqi , Hyunjun Jung , Benjamin Busam , Ricardo Marques , Petia Radeva

Recommender systems play a vital role in alleviating information overload and enriching users' online experience. In the era of large language models (LLMs), LLM-based recommender systems have emerged as a prevalent paradigm for advancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Zihuai Zhao , Yujuan Ding , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Bundle recommendation aims to enhance business profitability and user convenience by suggesting a set of interconnected items. In real-world scenarios, leveraging the impact of asymmetric item affiliations is crucial for effective bundle…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Huy-Son Nguyen , Tuan-Nghia Bui , Long-Hai Nguyen , Hoang Manh-Hung , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le