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Considering the impact of recommendations on item providers is one of the duties of multi-sided recommender systems. Item providers are key stakeholders in online platforms, and their earnings and plans are influenced by the exposure their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ludovico Boratto , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

We propose an approach to learn image representations that consist of disentangled factors of variation without exploiting any manual labeling or data domain knowledge. A factor of variation corresponds to an image attribute that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Qiyang Hu , Attila Szabó , Tiziano Portenier , Matthias Zwicker , Paolo Favaro

In last decades, diversity and accuracy have been regarded as two important measures in evaluating a recommendation model. However, a clear concern is that a model focusing excessively on one measure will put the other one at risk, thus it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Ya-Hui An , Qiang Dong , Chong-Jing Sun , Da-Cheng Nie , Yan Fu

Recommender systems serve a dual purpose for users: sifting out inappropriate or mismatched information while accurately identifying items that align with their preferences. Numerous recommendation algorithms are designed to provide users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chaoguang Luo , Liuying Wen , Yong Qin , Liangwei Yang , Zhineng Hu , Philip S. Yu

Multimodal data has significantly advanced recommendation systems by integrating diverse information sources to model user preferences and item characteristics. However, these systems often struggle with redundant and irrelevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hui Wang , Jinghui Qin , Wushao Wen , Qingling Li , Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang

Currently, there starts a research trend to leverage neural architecture for recommendation systems. Though several deep recommender models are proposed, most methods are too simple to characterize users' complex preference. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Han Xiao , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Recommender systems play an essential role in online services by providing personalized item lists to support users' decision-making processes. While collaborative filtering methods can achieve high accuracy, it is crucial to consider not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Tomoya Yanagi , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Ken Kobayashi , Yuichi Takano

A recommender system generates personalized recommendations for a user by computing the preference score of items, sorting the items according to the score, and filtering top-K items with high scores. While sorting and ranking items are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hyunsung Lee , Yeongjae Jang , Jaekwang Kim , Honguk Woo

Learning user preferences for products based on their past purchases or reviews is at the cornerstone of modern recommendation engines. One complication in this learning task is that some users are more likely to purchase products or review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Wanning Chen , Mohsen Bayati

Cross-domain Recommendation systems leverage multi-domain user interactions to improve performance, especially in sparse data or new user scenarios. However, CDR faces challenges such as effectively capturing user preferences and avoiding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junxiong Tong , Mingjia Yin , Hao Wang , Qiushi Pan , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Recommender systems play a critical role in enhancing user experience by providing personalized suggestions based on user preferences. Traditional approaches often rely on explicit numerical ratings or assume access to fully ranked lists of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Bahar Boroomand , James R. Wright

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

Preference elicitation plays a central role in interactive recommender systems. Most preference elicitation approaches use either item queries that ask users to select preferred items from a slate, or attribute queries that ask them to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Erdem Biyik , Fan Yao , Yinlam Chow , Alex Haig , Chih-wei Hsu , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Craig Boutilier

In consumer search, there is a set of items. An agent has a prior over her value for each item and can pay a cost to learn the instantiation of her value. After exploring a subset of items, the agent chooses one and obtains a payoff equal…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Nicole Immorlica , Jieming Mao , Christos Tzamos

Personalization, including both self-selected and pre-selected, is inevitable when tremendous amounts of media content are available. Personalization, which is believed to cause people to consume fewer diverse contents, can lead to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Kota Kakiuchi , Fujio Toriumi , Masanori Takano , Kazuya Wada , Ichiro Fukuda

Multimodal representation learning seeks to relate and decompose information inherent in multiple modalities. By disentangling modality-specific information from information that is shared across modalities, we can improve interpretability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Chenyu Wang , Sharut Gupta , Xinyi Zhang , Sana Tonekaboni , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi Jaakkola , Caroline Uhler

In e-commerce platforms, the relevant recommendation is a unique scenario providing related items for a trigger item that users are interested in. However, users' preferences for the similarity and diversity of recommendation results are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Wei Dai , Yingmin Su , Xiaofeng Pan

In the one-class recommendation problem, it's required to make recommendations basing on users' implicit feedback, which is inferred from their action and inaction. Existing works obtain representations of users and items by encoding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chu-Jen Shao , Hao-Ming Fu , Pu-Jen Cheng

Standard collaborative filtering approaches for top-N recommendation are biased toward popular items. As a result, they recommend items that users are likely aware of and under-represent long-tail items. This is inadequate, both for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Zainab Zolaktaf , Reza Babanezhad , Rachel Pottinger

Diversification of recommendation results is a promising approach for coping with the uncertainty associated with users' information needs. Of particular importance in diversified recommendation is to define and optimize an appropriate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Naoto Ohsaka , Riku Togashi