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Accurately modeling user preferences is vital not only for improving recommendation performance but also for enhancing transparency in recommender systems. Conventional user profiling methods, such as averaging item embeddings, often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Milad Sabouri , Masoud Mansoury , Kun Lin , Bamshad Mobasher

Text--image retrieval is necessary for applications such as product recommendation. Embedding-based approaches like CLIP enable efficient large-scale retrieval via vector similarity search, but they are primarily trained on literal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Eric He , Akash Gupta , Adian Liusie , Vatsal Raina , Piotr Molenda , Shirom Chabra , Vyas Raina

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

Using embeddings as representations of products is quite commonplace in recommender systems, either by extracting the semantic embeddings of text descriptions, user sessions, collaborative relationships, or product images. In this paper, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Diogo Goncalves , Liweu Liu , Ana Magalhães

Network embedding (or graph embedding) has been widely used in many real-world applications. However, existing methods mainly focus on networks with single-typed nodes/edges and cannot scale well to handle large networks. Many real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Yukuo Cen , Xu Zou , Jianwei Zhang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Jie Tang

Our paper investigates the use of discourse embedding techniques to develop a community recommendation system that focuses on mental health support groups on social media. Social media platforms provide a means for users to anonymously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Hy Dang , Bang Nguyen , Noah Ziems , Meng Jiang

In recent years, Recommender Systems (RS) have witnessed a transformative shift with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Models such as GPT-3.5/4, Llama, have demonstrated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Junyi Chen , Toyotaro Suzumura

The core of the general recommender systems lies in learning high-quality embedding representations of users and items to investigate their positional relations in the feature space. Unfortunately, data sparsity caused by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a core technique for recommender systems. Traditional CF approaches exploit user-item relations (e.g., clicks, likes, and views) only and hence they suffer from the data sparsity issue. Items are usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Guangneng Hu

At the heart of contemporary recommender systems (RSs) are latent factor models that provide quality recommendation experience to users. These models use embedding vectors, which are typically of a uniform and fixed size, to represent users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yunke Qu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Large language models (LLMs) excel at capturing semantic nuances and therefore show impressive relevance ranking performance in modern recommendation and search systems. However, they suffer from high computational overhead under industrial…

Growing amounts of online user data motivate the need for automated processing techniques. In case of user ratings, one interesting option is to use neural networks for learning to predict ratings given an item and a user. While training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Philipp Blandfort , Tushar Karayil , Federico Raue , Jörn Hees , Andreas Dengel

In recent years, deep neural network is introduced in recommender systems to solve the collaborative filtering problem, which has achieved immense success on computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. On one hand,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ge Fan , Wei Zeng , Shan Sun , Biao Geng , Weiyi Wang , Weibo Liu

Graph representation learning is a fast-growing field where one of the main objectives is to generate meaningful representations of graphs in lower-dimensional spaces. The learned embeddings have been successfully applied to perform various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Md. Khaledur Rahman , Ariful Azad

Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for recommendation based on implicit feedback collaborative filtering. However, standard CML methods learn fixed user and item representations, which fails to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Viet-Anh Tran , Guillaume Salha-Galvan , Romain Hennequin , Manuel Moussallam

Reranking is a critical component in recommender systems, playing an essential role in refining the output of recommendation algorithms. Traditional reranking models have focused predominantly on accuracy, but modern applications demand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingtong Gao , Bo Chen , Weiwen Liu , Xiangyang Li , Yichao Wang , Wanyu Wang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiangyu Zhao

The prosperous development of e-commerce has spawned diverse recommendation systems. As a matter of fact, there exist rich and complex interactions among various types of nodes in real-world recommendation systems, which can be constructed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Jinghan Shi , Houye Ji , Chuan Shi , Xiao Wang , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

The recommender system (RS) has been an integral toolkit of online services. They are equipped with various deep learning techniques to model user preference based on identifier and attribute information. With the emergence of multimedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qidong Liu , Jiaxi Hu , Yutian Xiao , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Wanyu Wang , Qing Li , Jiliang Tang

Recommender system is one of the most important information services on today's Internet. Recently, graph neural networks have become the new state-of-the-art approach to recommender systems. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Nian Li , Yinfeng Li , Yingrong Qin , Jinghua Piao , Yuhan Quan , Jianxin Chang , Depeng Jin , Xiangnan He , Yong Li

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in sequential recommendation tasks, leveraging their superior language understanding capabilities. However, existing LLM-based recommendation approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Minglai Shao , Hua Huang , Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu