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Recent years have witnessed the remarkable success of recommendation systems (RSs) in alleviating the information overload problem. As a new paradigm of RSs, session-based recommendation (SR) specializes in users' short-term preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zihao Li , Chao Yang , Yakun Chen , Xianzhi Wang , Hongxu Chen , Guandong Xu , Lina Yao , Quan Z. Sheng

With the shifting focus of organizations and governments towards digitization of academic and technical documents, there has been an increasing need to use this reserve of scholarly documents for developing applications that can facilitate…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Samiya Khan , Kashish A. Shakil , Mansaf Alam

The growing popularity of language models has sparked interest in conversational recommender systems (CRS) within both industry and research circles. However, concerns regarding biases in these systems have emerged. While individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Armin Moradi , Golnoosh Farnadi

Absence of large-scale labeled data in the practitioner's target domain can be a bottleneck to applying machine learning algorithms in practice. Transfer learning is a popular strategy for leveraging additional data to improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Sasha Doubov , David Acuna , Sanja Fidler

A cross-domain recommendation has shown promising results in solving data-sparsity and cold-start problems. Despite such progress, existing methods focus on domain-shareable information (overlapped users or same contexts) for a knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Yoonhyuk Choi , Jiho Choi , Taewook Ko , Hyungho Byun , Chong-Kwon Kim

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

Collaborative filtering (CF) aims to predict users' ratings on items according to historical user-item preference data. In many real-world applications, preference data are usually sparse, which would make models overfit and fail to give…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-29 Zhongqi Lu , Erheng Zhong , Lili Zhao , Wei Xiang , Weike Pan , Qiang Yang

Over the last few years, the arena of mobile application development has expanded considerably beyond the balance of the world\'s software markets. With the growing number of mobile software companies, and the mounting sophistication of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Bilal Abu-Salih , Hamad Alsawalqah , Basima Elshqeirat , Tomayess Issa , Pornpit Wongthongtham

The evolution of the user's content still remains a problem for an accurate recommendation.This is why the current research aims to design Recommender Systems (RS) able to continually adapt information that matches the user's interests.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-09 Djallel Bouneffouf

In today's digital landscape, Deep Recommender Systems (DRS) play a crucial role in navigating and customizing online content for individual preferences. However, conventional methods, which mainly depend on single recommendation task,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Xiangyu Zhao , Yichao Wang , Bo Chen , Jingtong Gao , Yuhao Wang , Xiaopeng Li , Pengyue Jia , Qidong Liu , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

This paper advocates privacy preserving requirements on collection of user data for recommender systems. The purpose of our study is twofold. First, we ask if restrictions on data collection will hurt test quality of RNN-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Gustav Hertz , Sandhya Sachidanandan , Balázs Tóth , Emil S. Jørgensen , Martin Tegnér

In the era of information overload, recommender systems (RSs) have become an indispensable part of online service platforms. Traditional RSs estimate user interests and predict their future behaviors by utilizing correlations in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Yaochen Zhu , Jing Ma , Jundong Li

In this big data era, it is hard for the current generation to find the right data from the huge amount of data contained within online platforms. In such a situation, there is a need for an information filtering system that might help them…

Contemporary artificial intelligence systems exhibit rapidly growing abilities accompanied by the growth of required resources, expansive datasets and corresponding investments into computing infrastructure. Although earlier successes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Markus Wulfmeier , Arunkumar Byravan , Sarah Bechtle , Karol Hausman , Nicolas Heess

In recent years, pretrained neural language models (PNLMs) have taken the field of natural language processing by storm, achieving new benchmarks and state-of-the-art performances. These models often rely heavily on annotated data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hoang Van

Travel Recommender Systems TRSs have been proposed to ease the burden of choice in the travel domain by providing valuable suggestions based on user preferences Despite the broad similarities in functionalities and data provided by TRSs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Rickson Simioni Pereira , Claudio Di Sipio , Martina De Sanctis , Ludovico Iovino

Conventional recommendation systems (RSs) are typically optimized to enhance performance metrics uniformly across all training samples. This makes it hard for data-driven RSs to cater to a diverse set of users due to the varying properties…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Kirandeep Kaur , Chirag Shah

Recommender systems recommend objects regardless of potential adverse effects of their overcrowding. We address this shortcoming by introducing crowd-avoiding recommendation where each object can be shared by only a limited number of users…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-06-18 Stanislao Gualdi , Matus Medo , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Recommender systems (RS), which are widely deployed across high-stakes domains, are susceptible to biases that can cause large-scale societal impacts. Researchers have proposed methods to measure and mitigate such biases - but translating…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jing Nathan Yan , Emma Harvey , Junxiong Wang , Jeffrey M. Rzeszotarski , Allison Koenecke

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, reinforcement learning for LLMs faces substantial data scarcity challenges,…