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Conversational recommender systems (CRS) enable the traditional recommender systems to explicitly acquire user preferences towards items and attributes through interactive conversations. Reinforcement learning (RL) is widely adopted to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Yang Deng , Yaliang Li , Fei Sun , Bolin Ding , Wai Lam

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) aim to interactively acquire user preferences and accordingly recommend items to users. Accurately learning the dynamic user preferences is of crucial importance for CRS. Previous works learn the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Sen Zhao , Wei Wei , Xian-Ling Mao , Shuai Zhu , Minghui Yang , Zujie Wen , Dangyang Chen , Feida Zhu

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) illuminate user preferences via multi-round interactive dialogues, ultimately navigating towards precise and satisfactory recommendations. However, contemporary CRS are limited to inquiring binary or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Wei Fan , Weijia Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song , Hao Liu

Conversational recommender system (CRS) interacts with users through multi-turn dialogues in natural language, which aims to provide high-quality recommendations for user's instant information need. Although great efforts have been made to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenzhan Shang , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Jing Zhang

Conversational recommender system (CRS), which combines the techniques of dialogue system and recommender system, has obtained increasing interest recently. In contrast to traditional recommender system, it learns the user preference better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yunwen Xia , Hui Fang , Jie Zhang , Chong Long

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) provide personalized services through multi-turn interactions, yet most existing methods overlook users' heterogeneous decision-making styles and knowledge levels, which constrains both accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Yaying Luo , Hui Fang , Zhu Sun

Recommendation systems focus on helping users find items of interest in the situations of information overload, where users' preferences are typically estimated by the past observed behaviors. In contrast, conversational recommendation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ting-Chun Wang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) dynamically obtain the user preferences via multi-turn questions and answers. The existing CRS solutions are widely dominated by deep reinforcement learning algorithms. However, deep reinforcement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-01 A S M Ahsan-Ul Haque , Hongning Wang

Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction paradigm, where the users' preferences are estimated based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dietmar Jannach , Ahtsham Manzoor , Wanling Cai , Li Chen

Human conversations of recommendation naturally involve the shift of interests which can align the recommendation actions and conversation process to make accurate recommendations with rich explanations. However, existing conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jinfeng Zhou , Bo Wang , Minlie Huang , Dongming Zhao , Kun Huang , Ruifang He , Yuexian Hou

Recommender systems are embracing conversational technologies to obtain user preferences dynamically, and to overcome inherent limitations of their static models. A successful Conversational Recommender System (CRS) requires proper handling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Yisong Miao , Qingyun Wu , Richang Hong , Min-Yen Kan , Tat-Seng Chua

Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation models are difficult to answer two important questions well due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Chongming Gao , Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Maarten de Rijke , Tat-Seng Chua

Recently, conversational recommender system (CRS) has become an emerging and practical research topic. Most of the existing CRS methods focus on learning effective preference representations for users from conversation data alone. While, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hui Wang , Sirui Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Traditional recommender systems estimate user preference on items purely based on historical interaction records, thus failing to capture fine-grained yet dynamic user interests and letting users receive recommendation only passively.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xuhui Ren , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Lizhen Cui , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) operate under incremental preference revelation, requiring systems to make recommendation decisions under uncertainty. While recent approaches particularly those built on large language models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Subham Raj , Aman Vaibhav Jha , Mayank Anand , Sriparna Saha

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have attracted growing attention for their ability to deliver personalized recommendations through natural language interactions. To more accurately infer user preferences from multi-turn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wei Yuan , Shutong Qiao , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through interactive conversations. Although several efforts have been made for CRS, two major issues still remain to be solved. First, the conversation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Shuqing Bian , Yuanhang Zhou , Ji-Rong Wen , Jingsong Yu

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to capture user's current intentions and provide recommendations through real-time multi-turn conversational interactions. As a human-machine interactive system, it is essential for CRS to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Shuokai Li , Yongchun Zhu , Ruobing Xie , Zhenwei Tang , Zhao Zhang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He , Hui Xiong

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide highquality recommendations in conversations. However, most conventional CRS models mainly focus on the dialogue understanding of the current session, ignoring other rich multi-aspect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Shuokai Li , Ruobing Xie , Yongchun Zhu , Xiang Ao , Fuzhen Zhuang , Qing He
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