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Session-based recommendation targets next-item prediction by exploiting user behaviors within a short time period. Compared with other recommendation paradigms, session-based recommendation suffers more from the problem of data sparsity due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Yingxia Shao , Lizhen Cui

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in sequential recommendation (SR), which are utilized to extract general knowledge. However, existing methods still lack domain knowledge and struggle to capture users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Jianyang Zhai , Xiawu Zheng , Chang-Dong Wang , Hui Li , Yonghong Tian

The rapid growth of Web APIs has made automated Web API recommendation essential for efficient mashup development. However, existing approaches suffer from two major limitations: 1) they rely on fixed top-N recommendation strategies that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zishuo Xu , Dezhong Yao , Yao Wan

Despite significant advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), developing advanced reasoning capabilities in LLMs remains a key challenge. Process Reward Models (PRMs) have demonstrated exceptional promise in enhancing reasoning by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Miao Peng , Nuo Chen , Zongrui Suo , Jia Li

Most conversational recommendation approaches are either not explainable, or they require external user's knowledge for explaining or their explanations cannot be applied in real time due to computational limitations. In this work, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Nikolaos Kondylidis , Jie Zou , Evangelos Kanoulas

We present a graph-based approach for the data management tasks and the efficient operation of a system for session-based next-item recommendations. The proposed method can collect data continuously and incrementally from an ecommerce web…

Session-based recommendation (SBR) focuses on next-item prediction at a certain time point. As user profiles are generally not available in this scenario, capturing the user intent lying in the item transitions plays a pivotal role. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Xin Xia , Hongzhi Yin , Junliang Yu , Qinyong Wang , Lizhen Cui , Xiangliang Zhang

Reasoning on knowledge graph (KG) has been studied for explainable recommendation due to it's ability of providing explicit explanations. However, current KG-based explainable recommendation methods unfortunately ignore the temporal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Yuyue Zhao , Xiang Wang , Jiawei Chen , Yashen Wang , Wei Tang , Xiangnan He , Haiyong Xie

Recommendation Systems have become integral to modern user experiences, but lack transparency in their decision-making processes. Existing explainable recommendation methods are hindered by reliance on a post-hoc paradigm, wherein…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Xiaohan Yu , Li Zhang , Chong Chen

Recommender systems (RSs) have become an inseparable part of our everyday lives. They help us find our favorite items to purchase, our friends on social networks, and our favorite movies to watch. Traditionally, the recommendation problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 M. Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

Given e-commerce scenarios that user profiles are invisible, session-based recommendation is proposed to generate recommendation results from short sessions. Previous work only considers the user's sequential behavior in the current…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Jing Li , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Ma

Session-based recommendation (SR) models aim to recommend top-K items to a user, based on the user's behaviour during the current session. Several SR models are proposed in the literature, however,concerns have been raised about their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Muskan Gupta , Priyanka Gupta , Lovekesh Vig

State-of-the-art recommender system (RS) mostly rely on complex deep neural network (DNN) model structure, which makes it difficult to provide explanations along with RS decisions. Previous researchers have proved that providing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Zhichao Xu , Yi Han , Tao Yang , Anh Tran , Qingyao Ai

Counterfactual explanations interpret the recommendation mechanism via exploring how minimal alterations on items or users affect the recommendation decisions. Existing counterfactual explainable approaches face huge search space and their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Xiangmeng Wang , Qian Li , Dianer Yu , Guandong Xu

Reasoning, the ability to logically draw conclusions from existing knowledge, is a hallmark of human. Together with perception, they constitute the two major themes of artificial intelligence. While deep learning has pushed the limit of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zhaocheng Zhu

This paper introduces an explanation framework designed to enhance the quality of rules in knowledge-based reasoning systems based on dataset-driven insights. The traditional method for rule induction from data typically requires…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Oshani Seneviratne , Brendan Capuzzo , William Van Woensel

Reasoning paths are reliable information in knowledge graph completion (KGC) in which algorithms can find strong clues of the actual relation between entities. However, in real-world applications, it is difficult to guarantee that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yanning Hou , Sihang Zhou , Ke Liang , Lingyuan Meng , Xiaoshu Chen , Ke Xu , Siwei Wang , Xinwang Liu , Jian Huang

We apply recurrent neural networks (RNN) on a new domain, namely recommender systems. Real-life recommender systems often face the problem of having to base recommendations only on short session-based data (e.g. a small sportsware website)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Balázs Hidasi , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Linas Baltrunas , Domonkos Tikk

In general, multiple domain cyberspace security assessments can be implemented by reasoning user's permissions. However, while existing methods include some information from the physical and social domains, they do not provide a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Lei Zhang , Yu Pan , Yi Liu , Qibin Zheng , Zhisong Pan

A transparent decision-making process is essential for developing reliable and trustworthy recommender systems. For sequential recommendation, it means that the model can identify key items that account for its recommendation results.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Kun Ma , Cong Xu , Zeyuan Chen , Wei Zhang