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Embedding & MLP has become a paradigm for modern large-scale recommendation system. However, this paradigm suffers from the cold-start problem which will seriously compromise the ecological health of recommendation systems. This paper…

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With the widespread adoption of information systems, recommender systems are widely used for better user experience. Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in implementing recommender systems. Yet, collaborative filtering methods are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Sapumal Ahangama , Danny Chiang-Choon Poo

Real-world recommendation systems commonly offer diverse content scenarios for users to interact with. Considering the enormous number of users in industrial platforms, it is infeasible to utilize a single unified recommendation model to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chonggang Song , Chunxu Shen , Hao Gu , Yaoming Wu , Lingling Yi , Jie Wen , Chuan Chen

Generative models powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) are emerging as a unified solution for powering both recommendation and search tasks. A key design choice in these models is how to represent items, traditionally through unique…

Recent advancements in language models and pre-trained language models like BERT and RoBERTa have revolutionized natural language processing, enabling a deeper understanding of human-like language. In this paper, we explore enhancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Ngoc Luyen Le , Marie-Hélène Abel

In recent years, large language models (LLM) have emerged as powerful tools for diverse natural language processing tasks. However, their potential for recommender systems under the generative recommendation paradigm remains relatively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jianchao Ji , Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Wenyue Hua , Yingqiang Ge , Juntao Tan , Yongfeng Zhang

Recently, there has been an emergence of employing LLM-powered agents as believable human proxies, based on their remarkable decision-making capability. However, existing studies mainly focus on simulating human dialogue. Human non-verbal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Junjie Zhang , Yupeng Hou , Ruobing Xie , Wenqi Sun , Julian McAuley , Wayne Xin Zhao , Leyu Lin , Ji-Rong Wen

Recommendation systems get expanding significance because of their applications in both the scholarly community and industry. With the development of additional data sources and methods of extracting new information other than the rating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Mohammad Maghsoudi Mehrabani , Hamid Mohayeji , Ali Moeini

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in enhancing recommender systems. However, addressing the cold-start recommendation problem, where users lack historical data, remains a considerable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hai-Dang Kieu , Minh Duc Nguyen , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Dung D. Le

Contemporary recommendation systems predominantly rely on ID embedding to capture latent associations among users and items. However, this approach overlooks the wealth of semantic information embedded within textual descriptions of items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Jian Jia , Yipei Wang , Yan Li , Honggang Chen , Xuehan Bai , Zhaocheng Liu , Jian Liang , Quan Chen , Han Li , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

The recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have generated considerable interest in their utilization for sequential recommendation tasks. While collaborative signals from similar users are central to recommendation modeling,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Tong Zhang

Entity matching (EM) is a critical step in entity resolution (ER). Recently, entity matching based on large language models (LLMs) has shown great promise. However, current LLM-based entity matching approaches typically follow a binary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Tianshu Wang , Xiaoyang Chen , Hongyu Lin , Xuanang Chen , Xianpei Han , Hao Wang , Zhenyu Zeng , Le Sun

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into recommendation systems has revealed promising potential through their capacity to extract world knowledge for enhanced reasoning capabilities. However, current methodologies that adopt…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Lingyu Mu , Hao Deng , Haibo Xing , Kaican Lin , Zhitong Zhu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Zhengxiao Liu , Zheng Lin , Jinxin Hu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential in generating natural language explanations for recommender systems. However, existing methods often overlook the sequential dynamics of user behavior and rely on evaluation metrics…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gangyi Zhang , Runzhe Teng , Chongming Gao

Generative Recommendation (GR) has emerged as a new paradigm in recommender systems. This approach relies on quantized representations to discretize item features, modeling users' historical interactions as sequences of discrete tokens.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Fuwei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Dongbo Xi , Jishen Yin , Huan Chen , Peng Yan , Fuzhen Zhuang , Zhao Zhang

In recommendation systems, predicting Click-Through Rate (CTR) is crucial for accurately matching users with items. To improve recommendation performance for cold-start and long-tail items, recent studies focus on leveraging item multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yining Yao , Ziwei Li , Shuwen Xiao , Boya Du , Jialin Zhu , Junjun Zheng , Xiangheng Kong , Yuning Jiang

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next interaction of a user based on their behavior sequence, where complementary relations often provide essential signals for predicting the next item. However, mainstream models relying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Qian Zhang , Lech Szymanski , Haibo Zhang , Jeremiah D. Deng

How to make the best decision between the opinions and tastes of your friends and acquaintances? Therefore, recommender systems are used to solve such issues. The common algorithms use a similarity measure to predict active users' tastes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Mostafa Khalaji , Nilufar Mohammadnejad

LLM-based agents have gained considerable attention for their decision-making skills and ability to handle complex tasks. Recognizing the current gap in leveraging agent capabilities for multi-agent collaboration in recommendation systems,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Zhefan Wang , Yuanqing Yu , Wendi Zheng , Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang

Sequential recommendation systems often struggle to make predictions or take action when dealing with cold-start items that have limited amount of interactions. In this work, we propose SimRec - a new approach to mitigate the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shaked Brody , Shoval Lagziel