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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

The rapid evolution of technology has transformed business operations and customer interactions worldwide, with personalization emerging as a key opportunity for e-commerce companies to engage customers more effectively. The application of…

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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

In recommendation systems, high-quality user embeddings can capture subtle preferences, enable precise similarity calculations, and adapt to changing preferences over time to maintain relevance. The effectiveness of recommendation systems…

Emerging short-video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and ShareChat present unique challenges for recommender systems, primarily originating from a continuous stream of new content. ShareChat alone receives approximately 2 million…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Srijan Saket , Olivier Jeunen , Md. Danish Kalim

Similar product recommendation is one of the most common scenes in e-commerce. Many recommendation algorithms such as item-to-item Collaborative Filtering are working on measuring item similarities. In this paper, we introduce our real-time…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Zhi Liu , Yan Huang , Jing Gao , Li Chen , Dong Li

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

We present a methodology to provide real-time and personalized product recommendations for large e-commerce platforms, specifically focusing on fashion retail. Our approach aims to achieve accurate and scalable recommendations with minimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Matteo Tolloso , Davide Bacciu , Shahab Mokarizadeh , Marco Varesi

Recommender systems typically represent users and items by learning their embeddings, which are usually set to uniform dimensions and dominate the model parameters. However, real-world recommender systems often operate in streaming…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yunke Qu , Liang Qu , Tong Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Personalized size and fit recommendations bear crucial significance for any fashion e-commerce platform. Predicting the correct fit drives customer satisfaction and benefits the business by reducing costs incurred due to size-related…

Recommender systems are critical tools to match listings and travelers in two-sided vacation rental marketplaces. Such systems require high capacity to extract user preferences for items from implicit signals at scale. To learn those…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Pavlos Mitsoulis-Ntompos , Meisam Hejazinia , Serena Zhang , Travis Brady

Recent research has shown that the performance of search personalization depends on the richness of user profiles which normally represent the user's topical interests. In this paper, we propose a new embedding approach to learning user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Thanh Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Mark Johnson , Dawei Song , Alistair Willis

Matrix factorization is one of the most efficient approaches in recommender systems. However, such algorithms, which rely on the interactions between users and items, perform poorly for "cold-users" (users with little history of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-18 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Flavian Vasile , Elena Smirnova , Alexis Conneau

Embedding models, which learn latent representations of users and items based on user-item interaction patterns, are a key component of recommendation systems. In many applications, contextual constraints need to be applied to refine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Syrine Krichene , Mike Gartrell , Clement Calauzenes

Ubiquitous personalized recommender systems are built to achieve two seemingly conflicting goals, to serve high quality content tailored to individual user's taste and to adapt quickly to the ever changing environment. The former requires a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Yunbo Ouyang , Jun Shi , Haichao Wei , Huiji Gao

User embeddings (vectorized representations of a user) are essential in recommendation systems. Numerous approaches have been proposed to construct a representation for the user in order to find similar items for retrieval tasks, and they…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Hui Shi , Yupeng Gu , Yitong Zhou , Bo Zhao , Sicun Gao , Jishen Zhao

Model-based methods for recommender systems have been studied extensively for years. Modern recommender systems usually resort to 1) representation learning models which define user-item preference as the distance between their embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Rihan Chen , Bin Liu , Han Zhu , Yaoxuan Wang , Qi Li , Buting Ma , Qingbo Hua , Jun Jiang , Yunlong Xu , Hongbo Deng , Bo Zheng

Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable success in natural language processing (NLP). In practical scenarios like recommendations, as users increasingly seek personalized experiences, it becomes crucial to incorporate user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Langming Liu , Shilei Liu , Yujin Yuan , Yizhen Zhang , Bencheng Yan , Zhiyuan Zeng , Zihao Wang , Jiaqi Liu , Di Wang , Wenbo Su , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

The embedding-based architecture has become the dominant approach in modern recommender systems, mapping users and items into a compact vector space. It then employs predefined similarity metrics, such as the inner product, to calculate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Liang Qu , Yun Lin , Wei Yuan , Xiaojun Wan , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin
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