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The research on intent-enhanced sequential recommendation algorithms focuses on how to better mine dynamic user intent based on user behavior data for sequential recommendation tasks. Various data augmentation methods are widely applied in…

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Negative sampling has been heavily used to train recommender models on large-scale data, wherein sampling hard examples usually not only accelerates the convergence but also improves the model accuracy. Nevertheless, the reasons for the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Wentao Shi , Jiawei Chen , Fuli Feng , Jizhi Zhang , Junkang Wu , Chongming Gao , Xiangnan He

Negative sampling strategies are widely used in implicit collaborative filtering to address issues like data sparsity and class imbalance. However, these methods often introduce false negatives, hindering the model's ability to accurately…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Jiayi Wu , Zhengyu Wu , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Negative sampling is essential for implicit-feedback-based collaborative filtering, which is used to constitute negative signals from massive unlabeled data to guide supervised learning. The state-of-the-art idea is to utilize hard negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yuhan Zhao , Rui Chen , Riwei Lai , Qilong Han , Hongtao Song , Li Chen

Popularity bias is a persistent issue associated with recommendation systems, posing challenges to both fairness and efficiency. Existing literature widely acknowledges that reducing popularity bias often requires sacrificing recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Bin Liu , Erjia Chen , Bang Wang

Negative sampling is a limiting factor w.r.t. the generalization of metric-learned neural networks. We show that uniform negative sampling provides little information about the class boundaries and thus propose three novel techniques for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 James O' Neill , Danushka Bollegala

The negative sampling strategy can effectively train collaborative filtering (CF) recommendation models based on implicit feedback by constructing positive and negative samples. However, existing methods primarily optimize the negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Jiayi Wu , Zhengyu Wu , Xunkai Li , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Negative sampling methods are vital in implicit recommendation models as they allow us to obtain negative instances from massive unlabeled data. Most existing approaches focus on sampling hard negative samples in various ways. These studies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Fuyuan Lyu , Yaochen Hu , Xing Tang , Yingxue Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Xue Liu

Negative sampling plays a crucial role in training successful sequential recommendation models. Instead of merely employing random negative sample selection, numerous strategies have been proposed to mine informative negative samples to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Lu Fan , Jiashu Pu , Rongsheng Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

Negative sampling has emerged as an effective technique that enables deep learning models to learn better representations by introducing the paradigm of learn-to-compare. The goal of this approach is to add robustness to deep learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Suman Adhya , Avishek Lahiri , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Partha Pratim Das

Sequential recommendation methods are increasingly important in cutting-edge recommender systems. Through leveraging historical records, the systems can capture user interests and perform recommendations accordingly. State-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chong Liu , Xiaoyang Liu , Rongqin Zheng , Lixin Zhang , Xiaobo Liang , Juntao Li , Lijun Wu , Min Zhang , Leyu Lin

Sequential recommendation effectively models dynamic user interests but continues to face challenges related to data sparsity. While self-supervised learning has alleviated this issue to some extent, most existing methods focus exclusively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Ziqiang Cui , Xing Tang , Peiyang Liu , Xiaokun Zhang , Shiwei Li , Xiuqiang He , Chen Ma

Collaborative filtering (CF) stands as a cornerstone in recommender systems, yet effectively leveraging the massive unlabeled data presents a significant challenge. Current research focuses on addressing the challenge of unlabeled data by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuhan Zhao , Rui Chen , Qilong Han , Hongtao Song , Li Chen

Instance segmentation of images is an important tool for automated scene understanding. Neural networks are usually trained to optimize their overall performance in terms of accuracy. Meanwhile, in applications such as automated driving, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kira Maag

Unsupervised learning has recently made exceptional progress because of the development of more effective contrastive learning methods. However, CNNs are prone to depend on low-level features that humans deem non-semantic. This dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Songwei Ge , Shlok Mishra , Haohan Wang , Chun-Liang Li , David Jacobs

Pairwise learning strategies are prevalent for optimizing recommendation models on implicit feedback data, which usually learns user preference by discriminating between positive (i.e., clicked by a user) and negative items (i.e., obtained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Xiao Chen , Wenqi Fan , Jingfan Chen , Haochen Liu , Zitao Liu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qing Li

Variable selection methods have been developed in linear regression to provide sparse solutions. Recent studies have focused on further interpretations on the sparse solutions in terms of false positive control. In this paper, we consider…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-25 X. Jessie Jeng , Xiongzhi Chen

Graph-based collaborative filtering (CF) has emerged as a promising approach in recommender systems. Despite its achievements, graph-based CF models face challenges due to data sparsity and negative sampling. In this paper, we propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Chaejeong Lee , Jeongwhan Choi , Hyowon Wi , Sung-Bae Cho , Noseong Park

Recommenders built upon implicit collaborative filtering are typically trained to distinguish between users' positive and negative preferences. When direct observations of the latter are unavailable, negative training data are constructed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yueqing Xuan , Kacper Sokol , Mark Sanderson , Jeffrey Chan

Sequential recommenders that are trained on implicit feedback are usually learned as a multi-class classification task through softmax-based loss functions on one-hot class labels. However, one-hot training labels are sparse and may lead to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shiguang Wu , Xin Xin , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren