English
Related papers

Related papers: Embedding in Recommender Systems: A Survey

200 papers

Recommender systems are an essential component of e-commerce marketplaces, helping consumers navigate massive amounts of inventory and find what they need or love. In this paper, we present an approach for generating personalized item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Tian Wang , Yuri M. Brovman , Sriganesh Madhvanath

Recommender systems in concert with Large Language Models (LLMs) present promising avenues for generating semantically-informed recommendations. However, LLM-based recommenders exhibit a tendency to overemphasize semantic correlations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Minhao Wang , Yunhang He , Cong Xu , Zhangchi Zhu , Wei Zhang

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of the emerging topic of Graph Learning based Recommender Systems (GLRS). GLRS mainly employ the advanced graph learning approaches to model users' preferences and intentions as well as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Shoujin Wang , Liang Hu , Yan Wang , Xiangnan He , Quan Z. Sheng , Mehmet Orgun , Longbing Cao , Nan Wang , Francesco Ricci , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junzhe Jiang , Shang Qu , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Kai Zhang , Rui Li , Jiatong Li , Min Gao

Deep learning has revolutionized many industries by enabling models to automatically learn complex patterns from raw data, reducing dependence on manual feature engineering. However, deep learning algorithms are sensitive to input data, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mert Sehri , Zehui Hua , Francisco de Assis Boldt , Patrick Dumond

We explore the effectiveness of an LLM-guided query refinement paradigm for extending the usability of embedding models to challenging zero-shot search and classification tasks. Our approach refines the embedding representation of a user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Ariel Gera , Shir Ashury-Tahan , Gal Bloch , Ohad Eytan , Assaf Toledo

Recommenders have become widely popular in recent years because of their broader applicability in many e-commerce applications. These applications rely on recommenders for generating advertisements for various offers or providing content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Rhicheek Patra , Egor Samosvat , Michael Roizner , Andrei Mishchenko

An embedding is a mapping from a set of nodes of a network into a real vector space. Embeddings can have various aims like capturing the underlying graph topology and structure, node-to-node relationship, or other relevant information about…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ashkan Dehghan , Kinga Siuta , Agata Skorupka , Andrei Betlen , David Miller , Bogumil Kaminski , Pawel Pralat

Personalized recommendations have become a common feature of modern online services, including most major e-commerce sites, media platforms and social networks. Today, due to their high practical relevance, research in the area of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Pablo Castells , Dietmar Jannach

Influenced by the great success of deep learning in computer vision and language understanding, research in recommendation has shifted to inventing new recommender models based on neural networks. In recent years, we have witnessed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Le Wu , Xiangnan He , Xiang Wang , Kun Zhang , Meng Wang

E-commerce platforms are increasingly reliant on recommendation systems to enhance user experience, retain customers, and, in most cases, drive sales. The integration of machine learning methods into these systems has significantly improved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aneta Poniszewska-Maranda , Magdalena Pakula , Bozena Borowska

Embeddings extracted by pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) have significant potential to improve information retrieval and search. Beyond the zero-shot setup in which they are being conventionally used, being able to take advantage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O Arik , Yanfei Chen , Tomas Pfister

Modern recommendation systems rely on real-valued embeddings of categorical features. Increasing the dimension of embedding vectors improves model accuracy but comes at a high cost to model size. We introduce a multi-layer embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Benjamin Ghaemmaghami , Zihao Deng , Benjamin Cho , Leo Orshansky , Ashish Kumar Singh , Mattan Erez , Michael Orshansky

The sequential recommendation problem has attracted considerable research attention in the past few years, leading to the rise of numerous recommendation models. In this work, we explore how Large Language Models (LLMs), which are nowadays…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Artun Boz , Wouter Zorgdrager , Zoe Kotti , Jesse Harte , Panos Louridas , Dietmar Jannach , Vassilios Karakoidas , Marios Fragkoulis

Individual user profiles and interaction histories play a significant role in providing customized experiences in real-world applications such as chatbots, social media, retail, and education. Adaptive user representation learning by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Ruixue Lian , Che-Wei Huang , Yuqing Tang , Qilong Gu , Chengyuan Ma , Chenlei Guo

Large collections of high-dimensional data have become nearly ubiquitous across many academic fields and application domains, ranging from biology to the humanities. Since working directly with high-dimensional data poses challenges, the…

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

Embedding fusion has emerged as an effective approach for enhancing performance across various NLP tasks. However, systematic guidelines for selecting optimal layers and developing effective fusion strategies for the integration of LLMs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jiho Gwak , Yuchul Jung

Recommendation systems aim to provide users with relevant suggestions, but often lack interpretability and fail to capture higher-level semantic relationships between user behaviors and profiles. In this paper, we propose a novel approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Yan Wang , Zhixuan Chu , Xin Ouyang , Simeng Wang , Hongyan Hao , Yue Shen , Jinjie Gu , Siqiao Xue , James Y Zhang , Qing Cui , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Sheng Li

With the rapid development of online services, recommender systems (RS) have become increasingly indispensable for mitigating information overload. Despite remarkable progress, conventional recommendation models (CRM) still have some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Jianghao Lin , Xinyi Dai , Yunjia Xi , Weiwen Liu , Bo Chen , Hao Zhang , Yong Liu , Chuhan Wu , Xiangyang Li , Chenxu Zhu , Huifeng Guo , Yong Yu , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang