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Adversarial Collaborative Filtering (ACF), which typically applies adversarial perturbations at user and item embeddings through adversarial training, is widely recognized as an effective strategy for enhancing the robustness of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Kaike Zhang , Qi Cao , Yunfan Wu , Fei Sun , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of a new learning problem for recommender systems where users provide feedback by comparing pairs of items instead of rating them individually. We assume that comparisons stem from latent user and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Suryanarayana Sankagiri , Jalal Etesami , Matthias Grossglauser

User and item attributes are essential side-information; their interactions (i.e., their co-occurrence in the sample data) can significantly enhance prediction accuracy in various recommender systems. We identify two different types of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yixin Su , Rui Zhang , Sarah Erfani , Junhao Gan

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

Modern recommender systems face a critical challenge in complying with privacy regulations like the 'right to be forgotten': removing a user's data without disrupting recommendations for others. Traditional unlearning methods address this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haichao Zhang , Chong Zhang , Peiyu Hu , Shi Qiu , Jia Wang

Recommender systems play an increasingly important role in online applications to help users find what they need or prefer. Collaborative filtering algorithms that generate predictions by analyzing the user-item rating matrix perform poorly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Zhao Kang , Chong Peng , Ming Yang , Qiang Cheng

The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiao Zhou , Danyang Liu , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

The evolving paradigm of Large Language Model-based Recommendation (LLMRec) customizes Large Language Models (LLMs) through parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) using recommendation data. The inclusion of user data in LLMs raises privacy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zhiyu Hu , Yang Zhang , Minghao Xiao , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

Collaborative information from user-item interactions is a fundamental source of signal in successful recommender systems. Recently, researchers have attempted to incorporate this knowledge into large language model-based recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Shahrooz Pouryousef , Ali Montazeralghaem

Recommender systems research has experienced different stages such as from user preference understanding to content analysis. Typical recommendation algorithms were built on the following bases: (1) assuming users and items are IID, namely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-08 Fangfang Li , Guandong Xu , Longbing Cao

While personalized recommender systems excel at content discovery, they frequently expose users to undesirable or discomforting information, highlighting the critical need for user-centric filtering tools. Current methods leveraging Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chi Zhang , Zhipeng Xu , Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu , Tun Lu

Recommender systems leverage user demographic information, such as age, gender, etc., to personalize recommendations and better place their targeted ads. Oftentimes, users do not volunteer this information due to privacy concerns, or due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-01 Smriti Bhagat , Udi Weinsberg , Stratis Ioannidis , Nina Taft

Collaborative filtering problems are commonly solved based on matrix completion techniques which recover the missing values of user-item interaction matrices. In a matrix, the rating position specifically represents the user given and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Taejun Lim , Siqu Long , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

Collaborative Filtering~(CF) plays a crucial role in modern recommender systems, leveraging historical user-item interactions to provide personalized suggestions. However, CF-based methods often encounter biases due to imbalances in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Miaomiao Cai , Min Hou , Lei Chen , Le Wu , Haoyue Bai , Yong Li , Meng Wang

Most state-of-the-art top-N collaborative recommender systems work by learning embeddings to jointly represent users and items. Learned embeddings are considered to be effective to solve a variety of tasks. Among others, providing and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Giovanni Gabbolini , Edoardo D'Amico , Cesare Bernardis , Paolo Cremonesi

Based on the user-item bipartite network, collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems predict users' interests according to their history collections, which is a promising way to solve the information exploration problem. However, CF…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-12-13 Zhao-Guo Xuan , Zhan Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Latent factor collaborative filtering (CF) has been a widely used technique for recommender system by learning the semantic representations of users and items. Recently, explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Deng Pan , Xiangrui Li , Xin Li , Dongxiao Zhu

Because implicit user feedback for the collaborative filtering (CF) models is biased toward popular items, CF models tend to yield recommendation lists with popularity bias. Previous studies have utilized inverse propensity weighting (IPW)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Jae-woong Lee , Seongmin Park , Mincheol Yoon , Jongwuk Lee

Recommender systems are often designed based on a collaborative filtering approach, where user preferences are predicted by modelling interactions between users and items. Many common approaches to solve the collaborative filtering task are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yinchong Yang , Florian Buettner

Recommendation systems have been essential for both user experience and platform efficiency by alleviating information overload and supporting decision-making. Traditional methods, i.e., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Lining Chen , Qingwen Zeng , Huaming Chen