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We propose a federated methodology to learn low-dimensional representations from a dataset that is distributed among several clients. In particular, we move away from the commonly-used cross-entropy loss in federated learning, and seek to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Juan Cervino , Navid NaderiAlizadeh , Alejandro Ribeiro

Recommendation Systems apply Information Retrieval techniques to select the online information relevant to a given user. Collaborative Filtering is currently most widely used approach to build Recommendation System. CF techniques uses the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Dheeraj kumar Bokde , Sheetal Girase , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

Graph collaborative filtering (GCF) is a dominant paradigm in recommender systems, where contrastive learning (CL) objectives such as the Sampled Softmax (SSM) loss are widely used for optimization. However, it remains unclear how CL…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Geon Lee , Sunwoo Kim , Kyungho Kim , Kijung Shin

Many of the traditional recommendation algorithms are designed based on the fundamental idea of mining or learning correlative patterns from data to estimate the user-item correlative preference. However, pure correlative learning may lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Yunqi Li , Zuohui Fu , Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Recent studies empirically indicate that language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge beyond mere semantics, attracting significant attention across various fields. However, in the recommendation domain, it remains uncertain whether…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Leheng Sheng , An Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yuxin Chen , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Recommender systems have been studied for decades with numerous promising models been proposed. Among them, Collaborative Filtering (CF) models are arguably the most successful one due to its high accuracy in recommendation and elimination…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Eric L. Lee , Tsung-Ting Kuo , Shou-De Lin

Item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) has been widely used in industrial applications such as recommender system and online advertising. It models users' preference on target items by the items they have interacted with. Recent models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yinjiang Cai , Zeyu Cui , Shu Wu , Zhen Lei , Xibo Ma

Cross-domain Recommendation (CDR) as one of the effective techniques in alleviating the data sparsity issues has been widely studied in recent years. However, previous works may cause domain privacy leakage since they necessitate the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Lei Guo , Ziang Lu , Junliang Yu , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin

As the core of recommender system, collaborative filtering (CF) models the affinity between a user and an item from historical user-item interactions, such as clicks, purchases, and so on. Benefited from the strong representation power,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Xiaoyu Du , Xiangnan He , Fajie Yuan , Jinhui Tang , Zhiguang Qin , Tat-Seng Chua

Recommender systems (RS) help users navigate large sets of items in the search for "interesting" ones. One approach to RS is Collaborative Filtering (CF), which is based on the idea that similar users are interested in similar items. Most…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-16 Andres G. Abad , Luis I. Reyes-Castro

Recently, Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have been widely introduced into Collaborative Filtering (CF) to produce more accurate recommendation results due to their capability of capturing the complex nonlinear relationships between items and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ling Huang , Can-Rong Guan , Zhen-Wei Huang , Yuefang Gao , Yingjie Kuang , Chang-Dong Wang , C. L. Philip Chen

In this work, we propose a novel joint client scheduling and resource block (RB) allocation policy to minimize the loss of accuracy in federated learning (FL) over wireless compared to a centralized training-based solution, under imperfect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Madhusanka Manimel Wadu , Sumudu Samarakoon , Mehdi Bennis

A model-based collaborative filtering (CF) approach utilizing fast adaptive randomized singular value decomposition (SVD) is proposed for the matrix completion problem in recommender system. Firstly, a fast adaptive PCA frameworkis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xiangyun Ding , Wenjian Yu , Yuyang Xie , Shenghua Liu

Collaborative filtering (CF) enables large-scale recommendation systems by encoding information from historical user-item interactions into dense ID-embedding tables. However, as embedding tables grow, closed-form solutions become…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Donald Loveland , Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Neil Shah , Danai Koutra

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

Graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have recently enabled a popular class of algorithms for collaborative filtering (CF). Nevertheless, the theoretical underpinnings of their empirical successes remain elusive. In this paper, we endeavor to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Yifei Shen , Yongji Wu , Yao Zhang , Caihua Shan , Jun Zhang , Khaled B. Letaief , Dongsheng Li

Recommending items to users has long been a fundamental task, and studies have tried to improve it ever since. Most well-known models commonly employ representation learning to map users and items into a unified embedding space for matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Radin Cheraghi , Amir Mohammad Mahfoozi , Sepehr Zolfaghari , Mohammadshayan Shabani , Maryam Ramezani , Hamid R. Rabiee

Federated Collaborative Filtering (FedCF) is an emerging field focused on developing a new recommendation framework with preserving privacy in a federated setting. Existing FedCF methods typically combine distributed Collaborative Filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Collaborative filtering (CF) is the most widely used and successful approach for personalized service recommendations. Among the collaborative recommendation approaches, neighborhood based approaches enjoy a huge amount of popularity, due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-10-05 Ranveer Singh , Bidyut Kr. Patra , Bibhas Adhikari

Standard Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms make use of interactions between users and items in the form of implicit or explicit ratings alone for generating recommendations. Similarity among users or items is calculated purely based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Jobin Wilson , Santanu Chaudhury , Brejesh Lall , Prateek Kapadia