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Recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users navigate an overwhelming selection of products and services. On online platforms, users have the opportunity to share feedback in various modes, including numerical ratings, textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Emrul Hasan , Mizanur Rahman , Chen Ding , Jimmy Xiangji Huang , Shaina Raza

Recommender systems often face heterogeneous datasets containing highly personalized historical data of users, where no single model could give the best recommendation for every user. We observe this ubiquitous phenomenon on both public and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Mi Luo , Fei Chen , Pengxiang Cheng , Zhenhua Dong , Xiuqiang He , Jiashi Feng , Zhenguo Li

Images account for a significant part of user decisions in many application scenarios, such as product images in e-commerce, or user image posts in social networks. It is intuitive that user preferences on the visual patterns of image…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-01 Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang , Hongteng Xu , Yixin Cao , Zheng Qin , Hongyuan Zha

Explainable recommendation attempts to develop models that generate not only high-quality recommendations but also intuitive explanations. The explanations may either be post-hoc or directly come from an explainable model (also called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yongfeng Zhang , Xu Chen

Modeling users for the purpose of identifying their preferences and then personalizing services on the basis of these models is a complex task, primarily due to the need to take into consideration various explicit and implicit signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-06 Amit Tiroshi , Tsvi Kuflik , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mohamed Ali Kaafar

Recommender systems learn from historical users' feedback that is often non-uniformly distributed across items. As a consequence, these systems may end up suggesting popular items more than niche items progressively, even when the latter…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

The task of item recommendation is to select the best items for a user from a large catalogue of items. Item recommenders are commonly trained from implicit feedback which consists of past actions that are positive only. Core challenges of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-22 Steffen Rendle

Recommender systems are widely used to predict personalized preferences of goods or services using users' past activities, such as item ratings or purchase histories. If collections of such personal activities were made publicly available,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Jun Sakuma , Tatsuya Osame

Collaborative filtering systems heavily depend on user feedback expressed in product ratings to select and rank items to recommend. In this study we explore how users value different collaborative explanation styles following the user-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Ludovik Coba , Markus Zanker , Laurens Rook , Panagiotis Symeonidis

Explainable recommender systems (RS) have traditionally followed a one-size-fits-all approach, delivering the same explanation level of detail to each user, without considering their individual needs and goals. Further, explanations in RS…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Mouadh Guesmi , Mohamed Amine Chatti , Shoeb Joarder , Qurat Ul Ain , Rawaa Alatrash , Clara Siepmann , Tannaz Vahidi

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

Recommendation systems have become popular and effective tools to help users discover their interesting items by modeling the user preference and item property based on implicit interactions (e.g., purchasing and clicking). Humans perceive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Hongyu Zhou , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Zeng , Lingzi Zhang , Zhiqi Shen

The most important task in personalized news recommendation is accurate matching between candidate news and user interest. Most of existing news recommendation methods model candidate news from its textual content and user interest from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Yongfeng Huang

Recommender systems are a class of machine learning algorithms that provide relevant recommendations to a user based on the user's interaction with similar items or based on the content of the item. In settings where the content of the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xavier Thomas

As a fundamental yet significant process in personalized recommendation, candidate generation and suggestion effectively help users spot the most suitable items for them. Consequently, identifying substitutable items that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin , Guanhua Ye , Zi Huang , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

Recommender systems aim to recommend new items to users by learning user and item representations. In practice, these representations are highly entangled as they consist of information about multiple factors, including user's interests,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Paras Sheth , Ruocheng Guo , Lu Cheng , Huan Liu , K. Selçuk Candan

As personalized recommendation algorithms become integral to social media platforms, users are increasingly aware of their ability to influence recommendation content. However, limited research has explored how users provide feedback…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Wenqi Li , Jui-Ching Kuo , Manyu Sheng , Pengyi Zhang , Qunfang Wu

One particularly promising use case of Large Language Models (LLMs) for recommendation is the automatic generation of Natural Language (NL) user taste profiles from consumption data. These profiles offer interpretable and editable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Bruno Sguerra , Elena V. Epure , Harin Lee , Manuel Moussallam

Recommender systems leverage both content and user interactions to generate recommendations that fit users' preferences. The recent surge of interest in deep learning presents new opportunities for exploiting these two sources of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Jeroen B. P. Vuurens , Martha Larson , Arjen P. de Vries

Recommendation systems are widespread, and through customized recommendations, promise to match users with options they will like. To that end, data on engagement is collected and used. Most recommendation systems are ranking-based, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Omar Besbes , Yash Kanoria , Akshit Kumar