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Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) often utilize external knowledge graphs (KGs) to introduce rich semantic information and recommend relevant items through natural language dialogues. However, original KGs employed in existing CRSs…

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Algorithmic recourse recommendations, such as Karimi et al.'s (2021) causal recourse (CR), inform stakeholders of how to act to revert unfavourable decisions. However, some actions lead to acceptance (i.e., revert the model's decision) but…

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Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) has become an emerging research topic seeking to perform recommendations through interactive conversations, which generally consist of generation and recommendation modules. Prior work on CRS tends…

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Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have shown great success in accurately capturing a user's current and detailed preference through the multi-round interaction cycle while effectively guiding users to a more personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Allen Lin , Jianling Wang , Ziwei Zhu , James Caverlee

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) illuminate user preferences via multi-round interactive dialogues, ultimately navigating towards precise and satisfactory recommendations. However, contemporary CRS are limited to inquiring binary or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Wei Fan , Weijia Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song , Hao Liu

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have become increasingly popular as a powerful tool for providing personalized recommendation experiences. By directly engaging with users in a conversational manner to learn their current and…

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Interactive Recommendation (IR) has gained significant attention recently for its capability to quickly capture dynamic interest and optimize both short and long term objectives. IR agents are typically implemented through Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jingyu Li , Zhiyong Feng , Dongxiao He , Hongqi Chen , Qinghang Gao , Guoli Wu

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) enhance recommendation quality by engaging users in multi-turn dialogues, capturing nuanced preferences through natural language interactions. However, these systems often face the false negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Haozhe Xu , Xiaohua Wang , Changze Lv , Xiaoqing Zheng

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

Conversational recommender systems offer the promise of interactive, engaging ways for users to find items they enjoy. We seek to improve conversational recommendation via three dimensions: 1) We aim to mimic a common mode of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shuyang Li , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley

With the aid of large language models, current conversational recommender system (CRS) has gaining strong abilities to persuade users to accept recommended items. While these CRSs are highly persuasive, they can mislead users by…

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Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm for offering personalized recommendations through natural language dialogue. However, they face challenges with knowledge sparsity, as users often provide…

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Conversational recommender systems (CRS) are interactive agents that support their users in recommendation-related goals through multi-turn conversations. Generally, a CRS can be evaluated in various dimensions. Today's CRS mainly rely on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Ahtsham Manzoor , Dietmar jannach

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) provide users with an interactive means to express preferences and receive real-time personalized recommendations. The success of these systems is heavily influenced by the preference elicitation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Ujwal Gadiraju

News recommendation (NR) is essential for online news services. Existing NR methods typically adopt a news-user representation learning framework, facing two potential limitations. First, in news encoder, single candidate news encoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Zhiming Mao , Jian Li , Hongru Wang , Xingshan Zeng , Kam-Fai Wong

Both knowledge graphs and user-item interaction graphs are frequently used in recommender systems due to their ability to provide rich information for modeling users and items. However, existing studies often focused on one of these sources…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yajing Yang , Zeyu Zeng , Mao Chen , Ruirui Shang

Knowledge Distillation (KD), which transfers the knowledge of a well-trained large model (teacher) to a small model (student), has become an important area of research for practical deployment of recommender systems. Recently, Relaxed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Youngjune Lee , Kee-Eung Kim

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to proactively capture user preferences through natural language dialogue and recommend high-quality items. To achieve this, CRS gathers user preferences via a dialog module and builds user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhenye Yang , Jinpeng Chen , Huan Li , Xiongnan Jin , Xuanyang Li , Junwei Zhang , Hongbo Gao , Kaimin Wei , Senzhang Wang

Existing Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) predominantly utilize user simulators for training and evaluating recommendation policies. These simulators often oversimplify the complexity of user interactions by focusing solely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Gangyi Zhang , Chongming Gao , Hang Pan , Runzhe Teng , Ruizhe Li

The ideal conversational recommender system (CRS) acts like a savvy salesperson, adapting its language and suggestions to each user's level of expertise. However, most current systems treat all users as experts, leading to frustrating and…

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