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Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have become increasingly popular in recommendation systems. However, recent studies have shown that GCN-based models will cause sensitive information to disseminate widely in the graph structure,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Tongxin Xu , Wenqiang Liu , Chenzhong Bin , Cihan Xiao , Zhixin Zeng , Tianlong Gu

We address the problem of group fairness in classification, where the objective is to learn models that do not unjustly discriminate against subgroups of the population. Most existing approaches are limited to simple binary tasks or involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Gaurav Maheshwari , Michaël Perrot

The item cold-start problem poses a fundamental challenge for music recommendation: newly added tracks lack the interaction history that collaborative filtering (CF) requires. Existing approaches often address this problem by learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yan-Martin Tamm , Gregor Meehan , Vojtěch Nekl , Vojtěch Vančura , Rodrigo Alves , Johan Pauwels , Anna Aljanaki

Cross-domain retrieval (CDR), as a crucial tool for numerous technologies, is finding increasingly broad applications. However, existing efforts face several major issues, with the most critical being the need for accurate supervision,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Lixu Wang , Xinyu Du , Qi Zhu

User-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to create recommender systems. This approach is based on finding the most relevant k users from whose rating history we can extract items to recommend. CF,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Tomislav Duricic , Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Elisabeth Lex

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a powerful recommender system that generates a list of recommended items for an active user based on the ratings of similar users. This paper presents a novel approach to CF by first finding the set of users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Doaa M. Shawky

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

Recommendation is crucial in both academia and industry, and various techniques are proposed such as content-based collaborative filtering, matrix factorization, logistic regression, factorization machines, neural networks and multi-armed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Feng Liu , Ruiming Tang , Xutao Li , Weinan Zhang , Yunming Ye , Haokun Chen , Huifeng Guo , Yuzhou Zhang

Fairness-aware recommendation eliminates discrimination issues to build trustworthy recommendation systems.Explaining the causes of unfair recommendations is critical, as it promotes fairness diagnostics, and thus secures users' trust in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Xiangmeng Wang , Qian Li , Dianer Yu , Qing Li , Guandong Xu

Discrimination-aware classification aims to make accurate predictions while satisfying fairness constraints. Traditional decision tree learners typically optimize for information gain in the target attribute alone, which can result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Kewen Peng , Hao Zhuo , Yicheng Yang , Tim Menzies

User-side group fairness is crucial for modern recommender systems, aiming to alleviate performance disparities among user groups defined by sensitive attributes like gender, race, or age. In the ever-evolving landscape of user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hyunsik Yoo , Zhichen Zeng , Jian Kang , Ruizhong Qiu , David Zhou , Zhining Liu , Fei Wang , Charlie Xu , Eunice Chan , Hanghang Tong

Cross-domain sequential recommendation (CDSR) aims to align heterogeneous user behavior sequences collected from different domains. While cross-attention is widely used to enhance alignment and improve recommendation performance, its…

Recommender systems struggle to provide accurate suggestions to new users with limited interaction history, a challenge known as the cold-user problem. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach using Double and Dueling Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Minda Zhao

Cross-domain Recommendation (CR) has been extensively studied in recent years to alleviate the data sparsity issue in recommender systems by utilizing different domain information. In this work, we focus on the more general Non-overlapping…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Lei Guo , Chunxiao Wang , Xinhua Wang , Lei Zhu , Hongzhi Yin

Cross-market recommendation (CMR) aims to enhance recommendation performance across multiple markets. Due to its inherent characteristics, i.e., data isolation, non-overlapping users, and market heterogeneity, CMR introduces unique…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jundong Chen , Honglei Zhang , Xiangmou Qu , Haoxuan Li , Han Yu , Yidong Li

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation (MTCDR), which aims to enhance recommendation performance across multiple domains simultaneously. Existing MTCDR methods primarily rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jinqiu Jin , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Traditional recommendation systems focus on maximizing user satisfaction by suggesting their favourite items. This user-centric approach may lead to unfair exposure distribution among the providers. On the contrary, a provider-centric…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Guoli Wu , Zhiyong Feng , Shizhan Chen , Hongyue Wu , Xiao Xue , Jianmao Xiao , Guodong Fan , Hongqi Chen , Jingyu Li

Cross-domain cold-start recommendation is an increasingly emerging issue for recommender systems. Existing works mainly focus on solving either cross-domain user recommendation or cold-start content recommendation. However, when a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Huiling Zhou , Jie Liu , Zhikang Li , Jin Yu , Hongxia Yang

In the evolving landscape of recommender systems, the challenge of effectively conducting privacy-preserving Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR), especially under strict non-overlapping constraints, has emerged as a key focus. Despite…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Ziang Lu , Lei Guo , Xu Yu , Zhiyong Cheng , Xiaohui Han , Lei Zhu

Rankings of people and items has been highly used in selection-making, match-making, and recommendation algorithms that have been deployed on ranging of platforms from employment websites to searching tools. The ranking position of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy