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While modern recommender systems are instrumental in navigating information abundance, they remain fundamentally limited by static user modeling and reactive decision-making paradigms. Current large language model (LLM)-based agents inherit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Chenghao Wu , Ruiyang Ren , Junjie Zhang , Ruirui Wang , Zhongrui Ma , Qi Ye , Wayne Xin Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential for improving recommendation systems through their inherent reasoning capabilities and extensive knowledge base. Yet, existing studies predominantly address warm-start scenarios…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shijun Li , Yu Wang , Jin Wang , Ying Li , Joydeep Ghosh , Anne Cocos

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in recommendation systems. However, the effective application of MLLMs to multimodal sequential recommendation remains unexplored: A)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Haoyu Wang , Yitong Wang , Jining Wang

Multimodal recommender systems (MRS) integrate heterogeneous user and item data, such as text, images, and structured information, to enhance recommendation performance. The emergence of large language models (LLMs) introduces new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Alejo Lopez-Avila , Jinhua Du

Traditional recommender systems leverage users' item preference history to recommend novel content that users may like. However, modern dialog interfaces that allow users to express language-based preferences offer a fundamentally different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Scott Sanner , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski , Ben Wedin , Lucas Dixon

Recently, relational metric learning methods have been received great attention in recommendation community, which is inspired by the translation mechanism in knowledge graph. Different from the knowledge graph where the entity-to-entity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Mingming Li , Fuqing Zhu , Feng Yuan , Songlin Hu

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) and the growing demand for personalized content, recommendation systems have become critical in enhancing user experience and driving engagement. Collaborative filtering algorithms,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Haowei Yang , Longfei Yun , Jinghan Cao , Qingyi Lu , Yuming Tu

Recommender systems have traditionally followed modular architectures comprising candidate generation, multi-stage ranking, and re-ranking, each trained separately with supervised objectives and hand-engineered features. While effective in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Rahul Raja , Anshaj Vats , Arpita Vats , Anirban Majumder

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong potential for generative recommendation by leveraging rich semantic knowledge. However, existing LLM-based recommender systems struggle to effectively incorporate collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fake Lin , Binbin Hu , Zhi Zheng , Xi Zhu , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Tong Xu

In recent years, substantial research efforts have been devoted to enhancing sequential recommender systems by integrating abundant side information with ID-based collaborative information. This study specifically focuses on leveraging the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Enze Liu , Bowen Zheng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened new possibilities for recommendation systems, though current approaches such as TALLRec face challenges in explainability and cold-start scenarios. We present ExplainRec, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Bo Ma , LuYao Liu , ZeHua Hu , Simon Lau

In this study, we present a novel clustering-based collaborative filtering (CF) method for recommender systems. Clustering-based CF methods can effectively deal with data sparsity and scalability problems. However, most of them are applied…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Munlika Rattaphun , Wen-Chieh Fang , Chih-Yi Chiu

Cloud-device collaborative recommendation partitions computation across the cloud and user devices: the cloud provides semantic user modeling, while the device leverages recent interactions and cloud semantic signals for privacy-preserving,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ruiqi Zheng , Jinli Cao , Jiao Yin , Hongzhi Yin

Sequential recommendation (SR) systems have evolved significantly over the past decade, transitioning from traditional collaborative filtering to deep learning approaches and, more recently, to large language models (LLMs). While the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Yucong Luo , Qitao Qin , Hao Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Ruiran Yan , Kefan Wang , Jie Ouyang

Involving collaborative information in Large Language Models (LLMs) is a promising technique for adapting LLMs for recommendation. Existing methods achieve this by concatenating collaborative features with text tokens into a unified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuting Liu , Jinghao Zhang , Yizhou Dang , Yuliang Liang , Qiang Liu , Guibing Guo , Jianzhe Zhao , Xingwei Wang

Generative recommendation aims to learn the underlying generative process over the entire item set to produce recommendations for users. Although it leverages non-linear probabilistic models to surpass the limited modeling capacity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang , Yu Wang , Tong Chen , Hongzhi Yin

This paper is concerned with how to make efficient use of social information to improve recommendations. Most existing social recommender systems assume people share similar preferences with their social friends. Which, however, may not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-01 Menghan Wang , Xiaolin Zheng , Yang Yang , Kun Zhang

Traditional click-through rate (CTR) prediction models convert the tabular data into one-hot vectors and leverage the collaborative relations among features for inferring the user's preference over items. This modeling paradigm discards…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Xiangyang Li , Bo Chen , Lu Hou , Ruiming Tang

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their significant potential to be applied for addressing various application tasks. However, traditional recommender systems continue to face great challenges such as poor interactivity and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Yunfan Gao , Tao Sheng , Youlin Xiang , Yun Xiong , Haofen Wang , Jiawei Zhang

Cold-start recommendation remains a central challenge in dynamic, open-world platforms, requiring models to recommend for newly registered users (user cold-start) and to recommend newly introduced items to existing users (item cold-start)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhen Zhang , Jujia Zhao , Xinyu Ma , Xin Xin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren