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Collaborative filtering algorithms haven been widely used in recommender systems. However, they often suffer from the data sparsity and cold start problems. With the increasing popularity of social media, these problems may be solved by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Chen Luo , Wei Pang , Zhe Wang

Traditional recommender systems primarily leverage identity-based (ID) representations for users and items, while the advent of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has introduced rich semantic modeling of item descriptions. However, PLMs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Chen Wang , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Mingdai Yang , Yueqing Liang , Philip S. Yu

The burgeoning presence of multimodal content-sharing platforms propels the development of personalized recommender systems. Previous works usually suffer from data sparsity and cold-start problems, and may fail to adequately explore…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xu Guo , Tong Zhang , Fuyun Wang , Xudong Wang , Xiaoya Zhang , Xin Liu , Zhen Cui

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

In this work, we present a federated version of the state-of-the-art Neural Collaborative Filtering (NCF) approach for item recommendations. The system, named FedNCF, enables learning without requiring users to disclose or transmit their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Vasileios Perifanis , Pavlos S. Efraimidis

Existing Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods are mostly designed based on the idea of matching, i.e., by learning user and item embeddings from data using shallow or deep models, they try to capture the associative relevance patterns in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Hanxiong Chen , Shaoyun Shi , Yunqi Li , Yongfeng Zhang

In this paper, we study a multi-step interactive recommendation problem, where the item recommended at current step may affect the quality of future recommendations. To address the problem, we develop a novel and effective approach, named…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Yu Lei , Wenjie Li

This paper presents LightFusionRec, a novel lightweight cross-domain recommendation system that integrates DistilBERT for textual feature extraction and FastText for genre embedding. Important issues in recommendation systems, such as data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Vansh Kharidia , Dhruvi Paprunia , Prashasti Kanikar

Deep candidate generation (DCG) that narrows down the collection of relevant items from billions to hundreds via representation learning has become prevalent in industrial recommender systems. Standard approaches approximate maximum…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Chang Zhou , Jianxin Ma , Jianwei Zhang , Jingren Zhou , Hongxia Yang

The ever-increasing data scale of user-item interactions makes it challenging for an effective and efficient recommender system. Recently, hash-based collaborative filtering (Hash-CF) approaches employ efficient Hamming distance of learned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Fan Wang , Weiming Liu , Chaochao Chen , Mengying Zhu , Xiaolin Zheng

Collaborative Filtering (CF), the most common approach to build Recommender Systems, became pervasive in our daily lives as consumers of products and services. However, challenges limit the effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Miguel G. Silva , Rui Henriques , Sara C. Madeira

Leveraging Large Language Models as Recommenders (LLMRec) has gained significant attention and introduced fresh perspectives in user preference modeling. Existing LLMRec approaches prioritize text semantics, usually neglecting the valuable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Jizhi Zhang , Keqin Bao , Qifan Wang , Xiangnan He

Collaborative filtering (CF) aims to predict users' ratings on items according to historical user-item preference data. In many real-world applications, preference data are usually sparse, which would make models overfit and fail to give…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Zhongqi Lu , Erheng Zhong , Lili Zhao , Wei Xiang , Weike Pan , Qiang Yang

Pre-trained language models have led to substantial gains over a broad range of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, but have been shown to have limitations for natural language generation tasks with high-quality requirements on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Haonan Li , Yeyun Gong , Jian Jiao , Ruofei Zhang , Timothy Baldwin , Nan Duan

Standard Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms make use of interactions between users and items in the form of implicit or explicit ratings alone for generating recommendations. Similarity among users or items is calculated purely based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Jobin Wilson , Santanu Chaudhury , Brejesh Lall , Prateek Kapadia

Multimodal recommendation systems integrate diverse multimodal information into the feature representations of both items and users, thereby enabling a more comprehensive modeling of user preferences. However, existing methods are hindered…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Qiya Song , Jiajun Hu , Lin Xiao , Bin Sun , Xieping Gao , Shutao Li

As the core of recommender system, collaborative filtering (CF) models the affinity between a user and an item from historical user-item interactions, such as clicks, purchases, and so on. Benefited from the strong representation power,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Xiaoyu Du , Xiangnan He , Fajie Yuan , Jinhui Tang , Zhiguang Qin , Tat-Seng Chua

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely used technique which allows to leverage past users' preferences data to identify behavioural patterns and exploit them to predict custom recommendations. In this work, we illustrate our review of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Andrea Pinto , Giacomo Camposampiero , Loïc Houmard , Marc Lundwall

Privacy-preserving recommendations are recently gaining momentum, since the decentralized user data is increasingly harder to collect, by recommendation service providers, due to the serious concerns over user privacy and data security.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mingkai Huang , Hao Li , Bing Bai , Chang Wang , Kun Bai , Fei Wang

We address the cold start problem in recommendation systems assuming no contextual information is available neither about users, nor items. We consider the case in which we only have access to a set of ratings of items by users. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Jérémie Mary , Romaric Gaudel , Preux Philippe