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Accurately predicting the likelihood of interaction between two objects (compound-protein sequence, user-item, author-paper, etc.) is a fundamental problem in Computer Science. Current deep-learning models rely on learning accurate…

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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…

Session-based recommendation aims to generate recommendations for the next item of users' interest based on a given session. In this manuscript, we develop prospective preference enhanced mixed attentive model (P2MAM) to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Bo Peng , Chang-Yu Tai , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

User preference prediction requires a comprehensive and accurate understanding of individual tastes. This includes both surface-level attributes, such as color and style, and deeper content-related aspects, such as themes and composition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenyi Mo , Ying Ba , Tianyu Zhang , Yalong Bai , Biye Li

Users try to articulate their complex information needs during search sessions by reformulating their queries. To make this process more effective, search engines provide related queries to help users in specifying the information need in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Mostafa Dehghani , Sascha Rothe , Enrique Alfonseca , Pascal Fleury

Although deep learning models perform remarkably well across a range of tasks such as language translation and object recognition, it remains unclear what high-level logic, if any, they follow. Understanding this logic may lead to more…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Thibault Sellam , Kevin Lin , Ian Yiran Huang , Yiru Chen , Michelle Yang , Carl Vondrick , Eugene Wu

Contrastive learning is a family of self-supervised methods where a model is trained to solve a classification task constructed from unlabeled data. It has recently emerged as one of the leading learning paradigms in the absence of labels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-03-05 Bingbin Liu , Pradeep Ravikumar , Andrej Risteski

We present principled approaches to train and deploy dyadic neural embedding models at the billion scale, focusing our investigation on the application of semantic product search. When training a dyadic model, one seeks to embed two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Vihan Lakshman , Choon Hui Teo , Xiaowen Chu , Priyanka Nigam , Abhinandan Patni , Pooja Maknikar , SVN Vishwanathan

Large pre-trained language models achieve state-of-the-art results when fine-tuned on downstream NLP tasks. However, they almost exclusively focus on text-only representation, while neglecting cell-level layout information that is important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Chenliang Li , Bin Bi , Ming Yan , Wei Wang , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang , Luo Si

Despite the potential of multi-modal pre-training to learn highly discriminative feature representations from complementary data modalities, current progress is being slowed by the lack of large-scale modality-diverse datasets. By…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Xiao Dong , Xunlin Zhan , Yangxin Wu , Yunchao Wei , Michael C. Kampffmeyer , Xiaoyong Wei , Minlong Lu , Yaowei Wang , Xiaodan Liang

Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item for recommendation based on previously recorded sessions of user interaction. The majority of existing approaches to SR focus on modeling the transition patterns of items. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Jiahao Yuan , Wendi Ji , Dell Zhang , Jinwei Pan , Xiaoling Wang

Human-computer interaction has long imagined technology that understands us-from our preferences and habits, to the timing and purpose of our everyday actions. Yet current user models remain fragmented, narrowly tailored to specific apps,…

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Many real-world applications are associated with structured data, where not only input but also output has interplay. However, typical classification and regression models often lack the ability of simultaneously exploring high-order…

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As companies increase their efforts in retaining customers, being able to predict accurately ahead of time, whether a customer will churn in the foreseeable future is an extremely powerful tool for any marketing team. The paper describes in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Philip Spanoudes , Thomson Nguyen

Session-based recommendation focuses on predicting the next item a user will interact with based on sequences of anonymous user sessions. A significant challenge in this field is data sparsity due to the typically short-term interactions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Zhe Yang , Tiantian Liang

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang

Knowing if a user is a buyer vs window shopper solely based on clickstream data is of crucial importance for ecommerce platforms seeking to implement real-time accurate NBA (next best action) policies. However, due to the low frequency of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Luca Bigon , Giovanni Cassani , Ciro Greco , Lucas Lacasa , Mattia Pavoni , Andrea Polonioli , Jacopo Tagliabue

Deep learning fostered a leap ahead in automated skin lesion analysis in the last two years. Those models are expensive to train and difficult to parameterize. Objective: We investigate methodological issues for designing and evaluating…

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The session search task aims at best serving the user's information need given her previous search behavior during the session. We propose an extended relevance model that captures the user's dynamic information need in the session. Our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Nir Levine , Haggai Roitman , Doron Cohen