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Counterfactual explanations interpret the recommendation mechanism via exploring how minimal alterations on items or users affect the recommendation decisions. Existing counterfactual explainable approaches face huge search space and their…

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Reviews contain rich information about product characteristics and user interests and thus are commonly used to boost recommender system performance. Specifically, previous work show that jointly learning to perform review generation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhouhang Xie , Julian McAuley , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Recommendation system could help the companies to persuade users to visit or consume at a particular place, which was based on many traditional methods such as the set of collaborative filtering algorithms. Most research discusses the model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Jionghao Lin , Yiren Liu

As recommendation is essentially a comparative (or ranking) process, a good explanation should illustrate to users why an item is believed to be better than another, i.e., comparative explanations about the recommended items. Ideally, after…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Aobo Yang , Nan Wang , Renqin Cai , Hongbo Deng , Hongning Wang

Explanations in a recommender system assist users in making informed decisions among a set of recommended items. Great research attention has been devoted to generating natural language explanations to depict how the recommendations are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Peng Wang , Renqin Cai , Hongning Wang

Session-based Recommendation (SR) systems have recently achieved considerable success, yet their complex, "black box" nature often obscures why certain recommendations are made. Existing explanation methods struggle to pinpoint truly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Han Zhou , Hui Fang , Zhu Sun , Wentao Hu

Explainable recommender systems are designed to elucidate the explanation behind each recommendation, enabling users to comprehend the underlying logic. Previous works perform rating prediction and explanation generation in a multi-task…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shijie Liu , Ruixing Ding , Weihai Lu , Jun Wang , Mo Yu , Xiaoming Shi , Wei Zhang

Recommender systems are central to digital platforms, yet they face a fundamental trade-off between accuracy and explainability. Black-box models achieve strong performance but lack interpretability needed for trust and adoption. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuyan Wang , Pan Li , Minmin Chen

Recent models can generate fluent and grammatical synthetic reviews while accurately predicting user ratings. The generated reviews, expressing users' estimated opinions towards related products, are often viewed as natural language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Zhouhang Xie , Sameer Singh , Julian McAuley , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder

Explainable Recommender Systems is an important field of study which provides reasons behind the suggested recommendations. Explanations with recommender systems are useful for developers while debugging anomalies within the system and for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sairamvinay Vijayaraghavan , Prasant Mohapatra

Explainable recommender systems can explain their recommendation decisions, enhancing user trust in the systems. Most explainable recommender systems either rely on human-annotated rationales to train models for explanation generation or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Menghan Wang , Kun Zhang , Yulan He

Providing personalized explanations for recommendations can help users to understand the underlying insight of the recommendation results, which is helpful to the effectiveness, transparency, persuasiveness and trustworthiness of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Hanxiong Chen , Xu Chen , Shaoyun Shi , Yongfeng Zhang

Explainable recommendation systems (RSs) are designed to explicitly uncover the rationale of each recommendation, thereby enhancing the transparency and credibility of RSs. Previous methods often jointly predicted ratings and generated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xiangchen Pan , Wei Wei

Providing natural language explanations for recommendations is particularly useful from the perspective of a non-expert user. Although several methods for providing such explanations have recently been proposed, we argue that an important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Jakub Raczyński , Mateusz Lango , Jerzy Stefanowski

The emerging meta- and multi-verse landscape is yet another step towards the more prevalent use of already ubiquitous online markets. In such markets, recommender systems play critical roles by offering items of interest to the users,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Ehsan Gholami , Mohammad Motamedi , Ashwin Aravindakshan

Recent advances in path-based explainable recommendation systems have attracted increasing attention thanks to the rich information provided by knowledge graphs. Most existing explainable recommendations only utilize static knowledge graphs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yicong Li , Hongxu Chen , Yile Li , Lin Li , Philip S. Yu , Guandong Xu

Explaining the output of a complex system, such as a Recommender System (RS), is becoming of utmost importance for both users and companies. In this paper we explore the idea that personalized explanations can be learned as recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jorge Díez , Pablo Pérez-Núñez , Oscar Luaces , Beatriz Remeseiro , Antonio Bahamonde

When the world changes, so does the text that humans write about it. How do we build language models that can be easily updated to reflect these changes? One popular approach is retrieval-augmented generation, in which new documents are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Belinda Z. Li , Emmy Liu , Alexis Ross , Abbas Zeitoun , Graham Neubig , Jacob Andreas

Explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from the industry and academic communities. It has shown great potential for improving the recommendation persuasiveness, informativeness and user satisfaction. Despite a lot of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Xu Chen , Jingsen Zhang , Lei Wang , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang , Li Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Using personalized explanations to support recommendations has been shown to increase trust and perceived quality. However, to actually obtain better recommendations, there needs to be a means for users to modify the recommendation criteria…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Diego Antognini , Claudiu Musat , Boi Faltings