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While recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of research papers on recommender system (RS), most of the papers focus on inventing machine learning models to better fit user behavior data. However, user behavior data is observational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Jiawei Chen , Hande Dong , Xiang Wang , Fuli Feng , Meng Wang , Xiangnan He

This paper proposes a novel model for the rating prediction task in recommender systems which significantly outperforms previous state-of-the art models on a time-split Netflix data set. Our model is based on deep autoencoder with 6 layers…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-12 Oleksii Kuchaiev , Boris Ginsburg

We present a new framework of applying deep neural networks (DNN) to devise a universal discrete denoiser. Unlike other approaches that utilize supervised learning for denoising, we do not require any additional training data. In such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-25 Taesup Moon , Seonwoo Min , Byunghan Lee , Sungroh Yoon

Recommendation systems (RS) aim to provide personalized content, but they face a challenge in unbiased learning due to selection bias, where users only interact with items they prefer. This bias leads to a distorted representation of user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shuqiang Zhang , Yuchao Zhang , Jinkun Chen , Haochen Sui

Modern recommendation systems can be broadly divided into two key stages: the ranking stage, where the system predicts various user engagements (e.g., click-through rate, like rate, follow rate, watch time), and the value model stage, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Xufeng Cai , Ziwei Guan , Lei Yuan , Ali Selman Aydin , Tengyu Xu , Boying Liu , Wenbo Ren , Renkai Xiang , Songyi He , Haichuan Yang , Serena Li , Mingze Gao , Yue Weng , Ji Liu

Distant supervision provides a means to create a large number of weakly labeled data at low cost for relation classification. However, the resulting labeled instances are very noisy, containing data with wrong labels. Many approaches have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhenzhen Li , Jian-Yun Nie , Benyou Wang , Pan Du , Yuhan Zhang , Lixin Zou , Dongsheng Li

Sequential recommenders that are trained on implicit feedback are usually learned as a multi-class classification task through softmax-based loss functions on one-hot class labels. However, one-hot training labels are sparse and may lead to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Shiguang Wu , Xin Xin , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Noise reduction techniques based on deep learning have demonstrated impressive performance in enhancing the overall quality of recorded speech. While these approaches are highly performant, their application in audio engineering can be…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Christian J. Steinmetz , Thomas Walther , Joshua D. Reiss

Improperly constructed datasets can result in inaccurate inferences. For instance, models trained on biased datasets perform poorly in terms of generalization (i.e., dataset bias). Recent debiasing techniques have successfully achieved…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Sumyeong Ahn , Se-Young Yun

Visual explanations based on user-uploaded images are an effective and self-contained approach to provide transparency to Recommender Systems (RS), but intrinsic limitations of data used in this explainability paradigm cause existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Jorge Paz-Ruza , David Esteban-Martínez , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Bertha Guijarro-Berdiñas

We propose dynamic curriculum learning via data parameters for noise robust keyword spotting. Data parameter learning has recently been introduced for image processing, where weight parameters, so-called data parameters, for target classes…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-22 Takuya Higuchi , Shreyas Saxena , Mehrez Souden , Tien Dung Tran , Masood Delfarah , Chandra Dhir

Noise in data appears to be inevitable in most real-world machine learning applications and would cause severe overfitting problems. Not only can data features contain noise, but labels are also prone to be noisy due to human input. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Weipeng Huang , Qin Li , Yang Xiao , Cheng Qiao , Tie Cai , Junwei Liang , Neil J. Hurley , Guangyuan Piao

Collaborative filtering based recommendation learns users' preferences from all users' historical behavior data, and has been popular to facilitate decision making. R Recently, the fairness issue of recommendation has become more and more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Lei Chen , Le Wu , Kun Zhang , Richang Hong , Defu Lian , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Meng Wang

In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised video denoising deep learning approach that can help to mitigate data scarcity issues and shows robustness against different noise patterns, enhancing its broad applicability. Our method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Mary Damilola Aiyetigbo , Dineshchandar Ravichandran , Reda Chalhoub , Peter Kalivas , Nianyi Li

The exponential growth of web content is a major key to the success for Recommender Systems. This paper addresses the challenge of defining noise, which is inherently related to variability in human preferences and behaviors. In classifying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Clarita Hawat , Wissam Al Jurdi , Jacques Bou Abdo , Jacques Demerjian , Abdallah Makhoul

Contrary to most machine learning models, modern deep artificial neural networks typically include multiple components that contribute to regularization. Despite the fact that some (explicit) regularization techniques, such as weight decay…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Alex Hernández-García , Peter König

Event-based sensors offer significant advantages over traditional frame-based cameras, especially in scenarios involving rapid motion or challenging lighting conditions. However, event data frequently suffers from considerable noise,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Marcin Kowalczyk , Kamil Jeziorek , Tomasz Kryjak

In many applications labeled data is not readily available, and needs to be collected via pain-staking human supervision. We propose a rule-exemplar method for collecting human supervision to combine the efficiency of rules with the quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Abhijeet Awasthi , Sabyasachi Ghosh , Rasna Goyal , Sunita Sarawagi

Most data for evaluating and training recommender systems is subject to selection biases, either through self-selection by the users or through the actions of the recommendation system itself. In this paper, we provide a principled approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Tobias Schnabel , Adith Swaminathan , Ashudeep Singh , Navin Chandak , Thorsten Joachims

The objective function of a matrix factorization model usually aims to minimize the average of a regression error contributed by each element. However, given the existence of stochastic noises, the implicit deviations of sample data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Guang-He Lee , Shao-Wen Yang , Shou-De Lin