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Following recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), LLM-based chatbots have transformed customer support by automating interactions and providing consistent, scalable service. While LLM-based conversational recommender systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Omri Haller , Yair Meidan , Dudu Mimran , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

We introduce CRS Arena, a research platform for scalable benchmarking of Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) based on human feedback. The platform displays pairwise battles between anonymous conversational recommender systems, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Nolwenn Bernard , Hideaki Joko , Faegheh Hasibi , Krisztian Balog

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) operate under incremental preference revelation, requiring systems to make recommendation decisions under uncertainty. While recent approaches particularly those built on large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Subham Raj , Aman Vaibhav Jha , Mayank Anand , Sriparna Saha

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to timely trace the dynamic interests of users through dialogues and generate relevant responses for item recommendations. Recently, various external knowledge bases (especially knowledge graphs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Wendi Li , Wei Wei , Xiaoye Qu , Xian-Ling Mao , Ye Yuan , Wenfeng Xie , Dangyang Chen

The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has shown great potential to develop more powerful conversational recommender systems (CRSs), which rely on natural language conversations to satisfy user needs. In this paper, we embark on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xiaolei Wang , Xinyu Tang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jingyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) aim to interactively acquire user preferences and accordingly recommend items to users. Accurately learning the dynamic user preferences is of crucial importance for CRS. Previous works learn the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sen Zhao , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Shuai Zhu , Minghui Yang , Zujie Wen , Dangyang Chen , Feida Zhu

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to understand the information needs and preferences expressed in a dialogue to recommend suitable items to the user. Most of the existing conversational recommendation datasets are synthesized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuanxing Liu , Weinan Zhang , Baohua Dong , Yan Fan , Hang Wang , Fan Feng , Yifan Chen , Ziyu Zhuang , Hengbin Cui , Yongbin Li , Wanxiang Che

Human conversations of recommendation naturally involve the shift of interests which can align the recommendation actions and conversation process to make accurate recommendations with rich explanations. However, existing conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jinfeng Zhou , Bo Wang , Minlie Huang , Dongming Zhao , Kun Huang , Ruifang He , Yuexian Hou

While previous chapters focused on recommendation systems (RSs) based on standardized, non-verbal user feedback such as purchases, views, and clicks -- the advent of LLMs has unlocked the use of natural language (NL) interactions for…

User-centric evaluation has become a key paradigm for assessing Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS), aiming to capture subjective qualities such as satisfaction, trust, and rapport. To enable scalable evaluation, recent work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Michael Müller , Amir Reza Mohammadi , Andreas Peintner , Beatriz Barroso Gstrein , Günther Specht , Eva Zangerle

The emerging topic of sequential recommender systems has attracted increasing attention in recent years.Different from the conventional recommender systems including collaborative filtering and content-based filtering, SRSs try to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Shoujin Wang , Liang Hu , Yan Wang , Longbing Cao , Quan Z. Sheng , Mehmet Orgun

A personalized conversational sales agent could have much commercial potential. E-commerce companies such as Amazon, eBay, JD, Alibaba etc. are piloting such kind of agents with their users. However, the research on this topic is very…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yueming Sun , Yi Zhang

Connecting conversation with external domain knowledge is vital for conversational recommender systems (CRS) to correctly understand user preferences. However, existing solutions either require domain-specific engineering, which limits…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Dayu Yang , Hui Fang

The wide development of mobile applications provides a considerable amount of data of all types (images, texts, sounds, videos, etc.). Thus, two main issues have to be considered: assist users in finding information and reduce search and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Djallel Bouneffouf

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) based on Large Language Models (LLMs) need to constantly be aligned to the user preferences to provide satisfying and context-relevant item recommendations. The traditional supervised fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zhongheng Yang , Aijia Sun , Yushang Zhao , Yinuo Yang , Dannier Li , Chengrui Zhou

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) leverage contextual information from conversations to generate recommendations but often struggle due to a lack of collaborative filtering (CF) signals, which capture user-item interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Ahmad Bin Rabiah , Nafis Sadeq , Julian McAuley

Goal-oriented proactive dialogue systems are designed to guide user conversations seamlessly towards specific objectives by planning a goal-oriented path. However, previous research has focused predominantly on optimizing these paths while…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Didi Zhang , Yaxin Fan , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu

In conversational recommender systems (CRSs), conversations usually involve a set of items and item-related entities or attributes, e.g., director is a related entity of a movie. These items and item-related entities are often mentioned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jie Zou , Aixin Sun , Cheng Long , Evangelos Kanoulas

Resources for simulation-based evaluation of conversational recommender systems (CRSs) are scarce. The UserSimCRS toolkit was introduced to address this gap. In this work, we present UserSimCRS v2, a significant upgrade aligning the toolkit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Nolwenn Bernard , Krisztian Balog

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their significant potential to be applied for addressing various application tasks. However, traditional recommender systems continue to face great challenges such as poor interactivity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yunfan Gao , Tao Sheng , Youlin Xiang , Yun Xiong , Haofen Wang , Jiawei Zhang