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This paper studies graph-based recommendation, where an interaction graph is constructed from historical records and is lever-aged to alleviate data sparsity and cold start problems. We reveal an early summarization problem in existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Yanru Qu , Ting Bai , Weinan Zhang , Jianyun Nie , Jian Tang

With the incredibly growing amount of multimedia data shared on the social media platforms, recommender systems have become an important necessity to ease users' burden on the information overload. In such a scenario, extensive amount of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Xianming Liu , Min-Hsuan Tsai , Thomas Huang

The problem of session-based recommendation aims to predict user actions based on anonymous sessions. Previous methods model a session as a sequence and estimate user representations besides item representations to make recommendations.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-14 Shu Wu , Yuyuan Tang , Yanqiao Zhu , Liang Wang , Xing Xie , Tieniu Tan

Deep recommender systems rely heavily on large embedding tables to handle high-cardinality categorical features such as user/item identifiers, and face significant memory constraints at scale. To tackle this challenge, hashing techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Xinyi Wu , Donald Loveland , Runjin Chen , Yozen Liu , Xin Chen , Leonardo Neves , Ali Jadbabaie , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Neil Shah , Tong Zhao

Graph-based semi-supervised learning is a fundamental machine learning problem, and has been well studied. Most studies focus on homogeneous networks (e.g. citation network, friend network). In the present paper, we propose the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Cheng Ju , James Li , Bram Wasti , Shengbo Guo

The problem of data sparsity has long been a challenge in recommendation systems, and previous studies have attempted to address this issue by incorporating side information. However, this approach often introduces side effects such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wei Wei , Xubin Ren , Jiabin Tang , Qinyong Wang , Lixin Su , Suqi Cheng , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin , Chao Huang

Graphs may be used to represent many different problem domains -- a concrete example is that of detecting communities in social networks, which are represented as graphs. With big data and more sophisticated applications becoming widespread…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-03 Miguel E. Coimbra , Alexandre P. Francisco , Luis Veiga

Retrieving cohesive subgraphs in networks is a fundamental problem in social network analysis and graph data management. These subgraphs can be used for marketing strategies or recommendation systems. Despite the introduction of numerous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Dahee Kim , Song Kim , Jeongseon Kim , Junghoon Kim , Kaiyu Feng , Sungsu Lim , Jungeun Kim

Recommender systems are often biased toward popular items. In other words, few items are frequently recommended while the majority of items do not get proportionate attention. That leads to low coverage of items in recommendation lists…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Masoud Mansoury , Himan Abdollahpouri , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke

Modeling user preference from his historical sequences is one of the core problems of sequential recommendation. Existing methods in this field are widely distributed from conventional methods to deep learning methods. However, most of them…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Xueli Yu , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang

Recommender systems have been actively studied and applied in various domains to deal with information overload. Although there are numerous studies on recommender systems for movies, music, and e-commerce, comparatively less attention has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Minjoo Choi , Seonmi Kim , Yejin Kim , Youngbin Lee , Joohwan Hong , Yongjae Lee

Recent 2D-to-3D human pose estimation works tend to utilize the graph structure formed by the topology of the human skeleton. However, we argue that this skeletal topology is too sparse to reflect the body structure and suffer from serious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Han Li , Bowen Shi , Wenrui Dai , Yabo Chen , Botao Wang , Yu Sun , Min Guo , Chenlin Li , Junni Zou , Hongkai Xiong

In real-world recommendation scenarios, users typically engage with platforms through multiple types of behavioral interactions. Multi-behavior recommendation algorithms aim to leverage various auxiliary user behaviors to enhance prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Hengyu Zhang , Chunxu Shen , Xiangguo Sun , Jie Tan , Yanchao Tan , Yu Rong , Hong Cheng , Lingling Yi

Knowledge graphs, represented in RDF, are able to model entities and their relations by means of ontologies. The use of knowledge graphs for information modeling has attracted interest in recent years. In recommender systems, items and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Ngoc Luyen Le , Marie-Hélène Abel , Philippe Gouspillou

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as promising solutions for collaborative filtering (CF) through the modeling of user-item interaction graphs. The nucleus of existing GNN-based recommender systems involves recursive message passing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Peiyan Zhang , Yuchen Yan , Xi Zhang , Chaozhuo Li , Senzhang Wang , Feiran Huang , Sunghun Kim

Heterogeneous information network (HIN) has been widely used to characterize entities of various types and their complex relations. Recent attempts either rely on explicit path reachability to leverage path-based semantic relatedness or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Jiarui Jin , Kounianhua Du , Weinan Zhang , Jiarui Qin , Yuchen Fang , Yong Yu , Zheng Zhang , Alexander J. Smola

Recommender systems (RSs) are designed to retrieve candidate items a user might be interested in from a large pool. A common approach is using graph neural networks (GNNs) to capture high-order interaction relationships. As large language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Junze Chen , Xinjie Yang , Cheng Yang , Junfei Bao , Zeyuan Guo , Yawen Li , Chuan Shi

Transformer architectures, capable of capturing sequential dependencies in the history of user interactions, have become the dominant approach in sequential recommender systems. Despite their success, such models consider sequence elements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Artur Gimranov , Viacheslav Yusupov , Elfat Sabitov , Tatyana Matveeva , Anton Lysenko , Ruslan Israfilov , Evgeny Frolov

Many real world person-person or person-product relationships can be modeled graphically. More specifically, bipartite graphs can be especially useful when modeling scenarios that involve two disjoint groups. As a result, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Nathan Ma