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Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach for recommender systems. One way to perform collaborative filtering is matrix factorization, which characterizes user preferences and item attributes using latent vectors. These latent…

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Training recommender systems for next-item recommendation often requires unique embeddings to be learned for each item, which may take up most of the trainable parameters for a model. Shared embeddings, such as using content information,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 M. Jeffrey Mei , Florian Henkel , Samuel E. Sandberg , Oliver Bembom , Andreas F. Ehmann

Current item-item collaborative filtering algorithms based on artificial neural network, such as Item2vec, have become ubiquitous and are widely applied in the modern recommender system. However, these approaches do not apply to the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Ruilin Yuan , Leya Li , Yuanzhe Cai

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as promising recommendation systems, offering novel ways to model user preferences through generative approaches. However, many existing methods often rely solely on text semantics or incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Leo Feng , Leonid Sigal , Mohamed Osama Ahmed

Current multimodal recommendation models have extensively explored the effective utilization of multimodal information; however, their reliance on ID embeddings remains a performance bottleneck. Even with the assistance of multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Kangning Zhang , Jiarui Jin , Yingjie Qin , Ruilong Su , Jianghao Lin , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, adopting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

Recommender systems are ubiquitous in the domain of e-commerce, used to improve the user experience and to market inventory, thereby increasing revenue for the site. Techniques such as item-based collaborative filtering are used to model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-31 Daniel A. Galron , Yuri M. Brovman , Jin Chung , Michal Wieja , Paul Wang

There is much empirical evidence that item-item collaborative filtering works well in practice. Motivated to understand this, we provide a framework to design and analyze various recommendation algorithms. The setup amounts to online binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Guy Bresler , Devavrat Shah , Luis F. Voloch

In recommender systems, multi-behavior methods have demonstrated their effectiveness in mitigating issues like data sparsity, a common challenge in traditional single-behavior recommendation approaches. These methods typically infer user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Mingshi Yan , Fan Liu , Jing Sun , Fuming Sun , Zhiyong Cheng , Yahong Han

Industrial recommendation systems are typically composed of multiple stages, including retrieval, ranking, and blending. The retrieval stage plays a critical role in generating a high-recall set of candidate items that covers a wide range…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhibo Fan , Hongtao Lin , Haoyu Chen , Bowen Deng , Hedi Xia , Yuke Yan , James Li

In e-commerce, where users face a vast array of possible item choices, recommender systems are vital for helping them discover suitable items they might otherwise overlook. While many recommender systems primarily rely on a user's purchase…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Kyungho Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Geon Lee , Kijung Shin

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

With the advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, recommender systems have been increasingly used across a vast variety of platforms to efficiently and effectively match users with items. As application…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xuan Bi , Yaqiong Wang , Gediminas Adomavicius , Shawn Curley

Given the effectiveness and ease of use, Item-based Collaborative Filtering (ICF) methods have been broadly used in industry in recent years. The key of ICF lies in the similarity measurement between items, which however is a coarse-grained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Liang Zhang , Guannan Liu , Junjie Wu

The main idea of multimodal recommendation is the rational utilization of the item's multimodal information to improve the recommendation performance. Previous works directly integrate item multimodal features with item ID embeddings,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yan Zhou , Jie Guo , Hao Sun , Bin Song , Fei Richard Yu

Embedding based product recommendations have gained popularity in recent years due to its ability to easily integrate to large-scale systems and allowing nearest neighbor searches in real-time. The bulk of studies in this area has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Giorgi Kvernadze , Putu Ayu G. Sudyanti , Nishan Subedi , Mohammad Hajiaghayi

Generative retrieval-based recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm aiming at directly generating the identifiers of the target candidates. However, in large-scale recommendation systems, this approach becomes increasingly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Penglong Zhai , Yifang Yuan , Fanyi Di , Jie Li , Yue Liu , Chen Li , Jie Huang , Sicong Wang , Yao Xu , Xin Li

Over the past decade, significant advances have been made in the field of image search for e-commerce applications. Traditional image-to-image retrieval models, which focus solely on image details such as texture, tend to overlook useful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Chang Liu , Peng Hou , Anxiang Zeng , Han Yu

We propose Meta-Prod2vec, a novel method to compute item similarities for recommendation that leverages existing item metadata. Such scenarios are frequently encountered in applications such as content recommendation, ad targeting and web…

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