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Product search is one of the most popular methods for customers to discover products online. Most existing studies on product search focus on developing effective retrieval models that rank items by their likelihood to be purchased. They,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qingyao Ai , Yongfeng Zhang , Keping Bi , W. Bruce Croft

Sequential recommendation requires the recommender to capture the evolving behavior characteristics from logged user behavior data for accurate recommendations. However, user behavior sequences are viewed as a script with multiple ongoing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Zhiyu Yao , Xinyang Chen , Sinan Wang , Qinyan Dai , Yumeng Li , Tanchao Zhu , Mingsheng Long

The contextual duelling bandit problem models adaptive recommender systems, where the algorithm presents a set of items to the user, and the user's choice reveals their preference. This setup is well suited for implicit choices users make…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Suryanarayana Sankagiri , Jalal Etesami , Pouria Fatemi , Matthias Grossglauser

Explainable recommendation is far from being well solved partly due to three challenges. The first is the personalization of preference learning, which requires that different items/users have different contributions to the learning of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Huanrui Luo , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Recommendation systems are an important units in today's e-commerce applications, such as targeted advertising, personalized marketing and information retrieval. In recent years, the importance of contextual information has motivated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Tal Hadad

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

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in recommendation systems. However, the effective application of MLLMs to multimodal sequential recommendation remains unexplored: A)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Haoyu Wang , Yitong Wang , Jining Wang

Item representation holds significant importance in recommendation systems, which encompasses domains such as news, retail, and videos. Retrieval and ranking models utilise item representation to capture the user-item relationship based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Amit Kumar Jaiswal , Yu Xiong

Recommender systems play an essential role in online services by providing personalized item lists to support users' decision-making processes. While collaborative filtering methods can achieve high accuracy, it is crucial to consider not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Tomoya Yanagi , Shunnosuke Ikeda , Ken Kobayashi , Yuichi Takano

Reinforcement Learning-based Recommender Systems (RLRS) have shown promise across a spectrum of applications, from e-commerce platforms to streaming services. Yet, they grapple with challenges, notably in crafting reward functions and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Siyu Wang , Xiaocong Chen , Lina Yao

Sequential recommendation aims to choose the most suitable items for a user at a specific timestamp given historical behaviors. Existing methods usually model the user behavior sequence based on the transition-based methods like Markov…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Zijian Li , Ruichu Cai , Fengzhu Wu , Sili Zhang , Hao Gu , Yuexing Hao , Yuguang

Traditional recommender systems primarily rely on a single type of user-item interaction, such as item purchases or ratings, to predict user preferences. However, in real-world scenarios, users engage in a variety of behaviors, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Kyungho Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Geon Lee , Jinhong Jung , Kijung Shin

Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

Recommendation systems have become popular and effective tools to help users discover their interesting items by modeling the user preference and item property based on implicit interactions (e.g., purchasing and clicking). Humans perceive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Hongyu Zhou , Xin Zhou , Zhiwei Zeng , Lingzi Zhang , Zhiqi Shen

Currently, there starts a research trend to leverage neural architecture for recommendation systems. Though several deep recommender models are proposed, most methods are too simple to characterize users' complex preference. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Han Xiao , Yidong Chen , Xiaodong Shi

Existing review-based recommendation methods usually use the same model to learn the representations of all users/items from reviews posted by users towards items. However, different users have different preference and different items have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Hongtao Liu , Fangzhao Wu , Wenjun Wang , Xianchen Wang , Pengfei Jiao , Chuhan Wu , Xing Xie

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Panfeng Cao , Pietro Lio

Cold-start item recommendation is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. A common remedy is to use a content-based approach, but rich information from raw contents in various forms has not been fully utilized. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jooeun Kim , Jinri Kim , Kwangeun Yeo , Eungi Kim , Kyoung-Woon On , Jonghwan Mun , Joonseok Lee

How to extract meaningful information in user historical behavior plays a crucial role in recommendation. User behavior sequence often contains multiple conceptually distinct items that belong to different item groups and the number of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Jiashu Zhao , Long Xia , Dawei Yin

Clinical diagnosis is a highly specialized discipline requiring both domain expertise and strict adherence to rigorous guidelines. While current AI-driven medical research predominantly focuses on knowledge graphs or natural text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Haolin Li , Tianjie Dai , Zhe Chen , Siyuan Du , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang