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Interactive recommender systems can dynamically adapt to user feedback, but often suffer from content homogeneity and filter bubble effects due to overfitting short-term user preferences. While recent efforts aim to improve content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chongjun Xia , Yanchun Peng , Xianzhi Wang

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

Our goal is to build classification models using a combination of free-text and structured data. To do this, we represent structured data by text sentences, DataWords, so that similar data items are mapped into the same sentence. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Stephen I. Gallant , Mirza Nasir Hossain

Product search has been a crucial entry point to serve people shopping online. Most existing personalized product models follow the paradigm of representing and matching user intents and items in the semantic space, where finer-grained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Keping Bi , Qingyao Ai , W. Bruce Croft

Many network analysis tasks in social sciences rely on pre-existing data sources that were created with explicit relations or interactions between entities under consideration. Examples include email logs, friends and followers networks on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-04-20 Lin Li , William M. Campbell , Cagri Dagli , Joseph P. Campbell

With the rapid growth of internet technologies, Web has become a huge repository of information and keeps growing exponentially under no editorial control. However the human capability to read, access and understand Web content remains…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-11-11 C. Ramesh , K. V. Chalapati Rao , A. Govardhan

Unlike traditional recommendation tasks, finite user time budgets introduce a critical resource constraint, requiring the recommender system to balance item relevance and evaluation cost. For example, in a mobile shopping interface, users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Sayak Chakrabarty , Souradip Pal

Personalized search has been a hot research topic for many years and has been widely used in e-commerce. This paper describes our solution to tackle the challenge of personalized e-commerce search at CIKM Cup 2016. The goal of this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant progress in assisting users to query databases in natural language. While LLM-based techniques provide state-of-the-art results on many standard benchmarks, their performance significantly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nina Narodytska , Shay Vargaftik

The essence of modern e-Commercial search system lies in matching user's intent and available candidates depending on user's query, providing personalized and precise service. However, user's query may be incorrect due to ambiguous input…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shangyu Chen , Xinyu Jia , Yingfei Zhang , Shuai Zhang , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Countless decisions shape our daily lives, and it is paramount to understand the how and why behind these choices. In this paper, we introduce a new LLM decision-making framework called STRUX, which enhances LLM decision-making by providing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yiming Lu , Yebowen Hu , Hassan Foroosh , Wei Jin , Fei Liu

In today's rapidly evolving job market, finding the right opportunity can be a daunting challenge. With advancements in the field of AI, computers can now recommend suitable jobs to candidates. However, the task of recommending jobs is not…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Preetam Ghosh , Vaishali Sadaphal

Most eCommerce applications, like web-shops have millions of products. In this context, the identification of similar products is a common sub-task, which can be utilized in the implementation of recommendation systems, product search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Febin Sebastian Elayanithottathil , Janis Keuper

In recent years, efforts have been made to use text information for better user profiling and item characterization in recommendations. However, text information can sometimes be of low quality, hindering its effectiveness for real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Yingpeng Du , Ziyan Wang , Zhu Sun , Haoyan Chua , Hongzhi Liu , Zhonghai Wu , Yining Ma , Jie Zhang , Youchen Sun

Recommender systems perform well for popular items and users with ample interactions (likes, ratings etc.). This work addresses the difficult and underexplored case of users who have very sparse interactions but post informative review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati , Anna Tigunova , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

Given the wide use of forgery throughout history, scholars have and are continuously engaged in assessing the authenticity of historical documents. However, online catalogues merely offer descriptive metadata for these documents, relegating…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Andrea Schimmenti , Valentina Pasqual , Francesca Tomasi , Fabio Vitali , Marieke van Erp

Unstructured data, such as text, images, audio, and video, comprises the vast majority of the world's information, yet it remains poorly supported by traditional data systems that rely on structured formats for computation. We argue for a…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Mushtari Sadia , Amrita Roy Chowdhury , Ang Chen

Generative retrieval introduces a groundbreaking paradigm to document retrieval by directly generating the identifier of a pertinent document in response to a specific query. This paradigm has demonstrated considerable benefits and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mingming Li , Huimu Wang , Zuxu Chen , Guangtao Nie , Yiming Qiu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Jingwei Zhuo

Efficient data exploration is crucial as data becomes increasingly important for accelerating processes, improving forecasts and developing new business models. Data consumers often spend 25-98 % of their time searching for suitable data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Lennart Busch , Daniel Tebernum , Gissel Velarde

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at tackling various natural language tasks. However, due to the significant costs involved in re-training or fine-tuning them, they remain largely static and difficult to personalize. Nevertheless, a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jinheon Baek , Nirupama Chandrasekaran , Silviu Cucerzan , Allen herring , Sujay Kumar Jauhar