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Reinforcement learning (RL) in recommendation systems offers the potential to optimize recommendations for long-term user engagement. However, the environment often involves large state and action spaces, which makes it hard to efficiently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Yijia Dai , Wen Sun

Conversational Recommender System (CRS), which aims to recommend high-quality items to users through interactive conversations, has gained great research interest recently. A CRS is usually composed of a recommendation module and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Lingzhi Wang , Huang Hu , Lei Sha , Can Xu , Kam-Fai Wong , Daxin Jiang

In this paper, we introduce a new self-supervised rationalization method, called KGRec, for knowledge-aware recommender systems. To effectively identify informative knowledge connections, we propose an attentive knowledge rationalization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang

Recommendation systems are an integral part of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and have become increasingly important in the growing age of commercialization in AI. Deep learning (DL) techniques for recommendation systems (RS) provide powerful…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Homanga Bharadhwaj , Shruti Joshi

Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as promising approaches to enhance session-based recommendation (SBR), where both prompt-based and fine-tuning-based methods have been widely investigated to align LLMs with SBR. However, the former…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Ziyan Wang , Yingpeng Du , Zhu Sun , Haoyan Chua , Kaidong Feng , Wenya Wang , Jie Zhang

Session-based Recommender Systems (SRSs) have been actively developed to recommend the next item of an anonymous short item sequence (i.e., session). Unlike sequence-aware recommender systems where the whole interaction sequence of each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Junsu Cho , SeongKu Kang , Dongmin Hyun , Hwanjo Yu

Recommender systems play a crucial role in mitigating the problem of information overload by suggesting users' personalized items or services. The vast majority of traditional recommender systems consider the recommendation procedure as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Xiangyu Zhao , Liang Zhang , Zhuoye Ding , Long Xia , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations through multi-turn natural language interactions with users. Given the strong interaction and reasoning skills of Large Language Models (LLMs), leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiaoyan Zhao , Ming Yan , Yang Zhang , Yang Deng , Jian Wang , Fengbin Zhu , Yilun Qiu , Hong Cheng , Tat-Seng Chua

Due to its nature of learning from dynamic interactions and planning for long-run performance, reinforcement learning (RL) recently has received much attention in interactive recommender systems (IRSs). IRSs usually face the large discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Chaoyang Wang , Zhiqiang Guo , Jianjun Li , Peng Pan , Guohui Li

This paper presents ReasoningRec, a reasoning-based recommendation framework that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to bridge the gap between recommendations and human-interpretable explanations. In contrast to conventional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Millennium Bismay , Xiangjue Dong , James Caverlee

Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained popularity in the realm of recommender systems due to its ability to optimize long-term rewards and guide users in discovering relevant content. However, the successful implementation of RL in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Nathan Corecco , Giorgio Piatti , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Flint Xiaofeng Fan , Roger Wattenhofer

Understanding a Reinforcement Learning (RL) policy is crucial for ensuring that autonomous agents behave according to human expectations. This goal can be achieved using Explainable Reinforcement Learning (XRL) techniques. Although textual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Ahmad Terra , Mohit Ahmed , Rafia Inam , Elena Fersman , Martin Törngren

We propose a novel framework to controller design in environments with a two-level structure: a known high-level graph ("map") in which each vertex is populated by a Markov decision process, called a "room". The framework "separates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Florent Delgrange , Guy Avni , Anna Lukina , Christian Schilling , Ann Nowé , Guillermo A. Pérez

Recommendation systems play a crucial role in various domains, suggesting items based on user behavior.However, the lack of transparency in presenting recommendations can lead to user confusion. In this paper, we introduce Data-level…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Shen Gao , Yifan Wang , Jiabao Fang , Lisi Chen , Peng Han , Shuo Shang

With the recent prevalence of Reinforcement Learning (RL), there have been tremendous interests in developing RL-based recommender systems. In practical recommendation sessions, users will sequentially access multiple scenarios, such as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Xiangyu Zhao , Long Xia , Linxin Zou , Hui Liu , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

The traditional recommendation systems mainly use offline user data to train offline models, and then recommend items for online users, thus suffering from the unreliable estimation of user preferences based on sparse and noisy historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Mengyuan Zhao , Xiaowen Huang , Lixi Zhu , Jitao Sang , Jian Yu

Session-based recommendation seeks to forecast the next item a user will be interested in, based on their interaction sequences. Due to limited interaction data, session-based recommendation faces the challenge of limited data availability.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Tiantian Liang , Zhe Yang

Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) has emerged as a promising paradigm that organizes external knowledge into structured graphs of entities and relations, enabling large language models (LLMs) to perform complex reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jinyoung Park , Sanghyeok Lee , Omar Zia Khan , Hyunwoo J. Kim , Joo-Kyung Kim

In general, multiple domain cyberspace security assessments can be implemented by reasoning user's permissions. However, while existing methods include some information from the physical and social domains, they do not provide a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Lei Zhang , Yu Pan , Yi Liu , Qibin Zheng , Zhisong Pan

Sequential Recommendation (SeqRec) aims to predict the next item by capturing sequential patterns from users' historical interactions, playing a crucial role in many real-world recommender systems. However, existing approaches predominantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Jiakai Tang , Sunhao Dai , Teng Shi , Jun Xu , Xu Chen , Wen Chen , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang