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Recommender systems are widely used in various real-world applications, but they often encounter the persistent challenge of the user cold-start problem. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR), which leverages user interactions from one domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Hourun Li , Yifan Wang , Zhiping Xiao , Jia Yang , Changling Zhou , Ming Zhang , Wei Ju

A well-designed recommender system can accurately capture the attributes of users and items, reflecting the unique preferences of individuals. Traditional recommendation techniques usually focus on modeling the singular type of behaviors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Hongrui Xuan , Yi Liu , Bohan Li , Hongzhi Yin

Session-based recommendation systems(SBRS) are more suitable for the current e-commerce and streaming media recommendation scenarios and thus have become a hot topic. The data encountered by SBRS is typically highly sparse, which also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zihan Wang , Gang Wu , Haotong Wang

In the era of information explosion, Recommender Systems (RS) are essential for alleviating information overload and providing personalized user experiences. Recent advances in diffusion-based generative recommenders have shown promise in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chengyi Liu , Xiao Chen , Shijie Wang , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Context information in search sessions has proven to be useful for capturing user search intent. Existing studies explored user behavior sequences in sessions in different ways to enhance query suggestion or document ranking. However, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Yutao Zhu , Jian-Yun Nie , Zhicheng Dou , Zhengyi Ma , Xinyu Zhang , Pan Du , Xiaochen Zuo , Hao Jiang

Recommendation systems have become indispensable in various online platforms, from e-commerce to streaming services. A fundamental challenge in this domain is learning effective embeddings from sparse user-item interactions. While…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Yansong Wang , Qihui Lin , Junjie Huang , Tao Jia

Group recommendation aims to recommend tailored items to groups of users, where the key challenge is modeling a consensus that reflects member preferences. Although several existing deep learning models have achieved performance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Soyoung Kim , Dongjun Lee , Jaekwang Kim

Inspired by the impressive success of contrastive learning (CL), a variety of graph augmentation strategies have been employed to learn node representations in a self-supervised manner. Existing methods construct the contrastive samples by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Peiyao Zhao , Yuangang Pan , Xin Li , Xu Chen , Ivor W. Tsang , Lejian Liao

Recently, many unsupervised deep learning methods have been proposed to learn clustering with unlabelled data. By introducing data augmentation, most of the latest methods look into deep clustering from the perspective that the original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Huasong Zhong , Chong Chen , Zhongming Jin , Xian-Sheng Hua

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

Contrastive Learning (CL)-based recommender systems have gained prominence in the context of Heterogeneous Graph (HG) due to their capacity to enhance the consistency of representations across different views. However, existing frameworks…

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User interests typically encompass both long-term preferences and short-term intentions, reflecting the dynamic nature of user behaviors across different timeframes. The uneven temporal distribution of user interactions highlights the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Wei Zhou , Yue Shen , Junkai Ji , Yinglan Feng , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He , Liang Feng , Zexuan Zhu

Contrastive Learning (CL) has achieved impressive performance in self-supervised learning tasks, showing superior generalization ability. Inspired by the success, adopting CL into collaborative filtering (CF) is prevailing in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-31 An Zhang , Leheng Sheng , Zhibo Cai , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Although prevailing supervised and self-supervised learning augmented sequential recommendation (SeRec) models have achieved improved performance with powerful neural network architectures, we argue that they still suffer from two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xinping Zhao , Baotian Hu , Yan Zhong , Shouzheng Huang , Zihao Zheng , Meng Wang , Haofen Wang , Min Zhang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are powerful tools for recommendation systems, but they often struggle under data sparsity and noise. To address these issues, we implemented LightGCL, a graph contrastive learning model that uses Singular Value…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Aravinda Jatavallabha , Prabhanjan Bharadwaj , Ashish Chander

Sequential recommender systems identify user preferences from their past interactions to predict subsequent items optimally. Although traditional deep-learning-based models and modern transformer-based models in previous studies capture…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Hansol Jung , Hyunwoo Seo , Chiehyeon Lim

Recent methods utilize graph contrastive Learning within graph-structured user-item interaction data for collaborative filtering and have demonstrated their efficacy in recommendation tasks. However, they ignore that the difference relation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Jiaheng Yu , Jing Li , Yue He , Kai Zhu , Shuyi Zhang , Wen Hu

Beyond user-item modeling, item-to-item relationships are increasingly used to enhance recommendation. However, common methods largely rely on co-occurrence, making them prone to item popularity bias and user attributes, which degrades…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jingmao Zhang , Zhiting Zhao , Yunqi Lin , Jianghong Ma , Tianjun Wei , Haijun Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang

Contrastive representation learning seeks to acquire useful representations by estimating the shared information between multiple views of data. Here, the choice of data augmentation is sensitive to the quality of learned representations:…

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