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Deep neural networks have emerged as a powerful technique for learning representations from user-item interaction data in collaborative filtering (CF) for recommender systems. However, many existing methods heavily rely on unique user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xubin Ren , Chao Huang

This paper studies recommender systems with knowledge graphs, which can effectively address the problems of data sparsity and cold start. Recently, a variety of methods have been developed for this problem, which generally try to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Weiping Song , Zhijian Duan , Ziqing Yang , Hao Zhu , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to proactively elicit user preference and recommend high-quality items through natural language conversations. Typically, a CRS consists of a recommendation module to predict preferred items for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaolei Wang , Kun Zhou , Ji-Rong Wen , Wayne Xin Zhao

Traditional recommender systems primarily leverage identity-based (ID) representations for users and items, while the advent of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has introduced rich semantic modeling of item descriptions. However, PLMs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Chen Wang , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Mingdai Yang , Yueqing Liang , Philip S. Yu

Generative commonsense reasoning refers to the task of generating acceptable and logical assumptions about everyday situations based on commonsense understanding. By utilizing an existing dataset such as Korean CommonGen, language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Dahyun Jung , Jaehyung Seo , Jaewook Lee , Chanjun Park , Heuiseok Lim

Recent advances in research have demonstrated the effectiveness of knowledge graphs (KG) in providing valuable external knowledge to improve recommendation systems (RS). A knowledge graph is capable of encoding high-order relations that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yang Gao , Yi-Fan Li , Yu Lin , Hang Gao , Latifur Khan

It remains an open question whether incorporating external knowledge benefits commonsense reasoning while maintaining the flexibility of pretrained sequence models. To investigate this question, we develop generated knowledge prompting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jiacheng Liu , Alisa Liu , Ximing Lu , Sean Welleck , Peter West , Ronan Le Bras , Yejin Choi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Conditional text generation has been a challenging task that is yet to see human-level performance from state-of-the-art models. In this work, we specifically focus on the Commongen benchmark, wherein the aim is to generate a plausible…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Yikang Li , Pulkit Goel , Varsha Kuppur Rajendra , Har Simrat Singh , Jonathan Francis , Kaixin Ma , Eric Nyberg , Alessandro Oltramari

Recommender systems have long been built upon the modeling of interactions between users and items, while recent studies have sought to broaden this paradigm by generalizing to new users and items, incorporating diverse information sources,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chanyoung Chung , Kyeongryul Lee , Sunbin Park , Joyce Jiyoung Whang

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

We present the first comprehensive study on automatic knowledge base construction for two prevalent commonsense knowledge graphs: ATOMIC (Sap et al., 2019) and ConceptNet (Speer et al., 2017). Contrary to many conventional KBs that store…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Antoine Bosselut , Hannah Rashkin , Maarten Sap , Chaitanya Malaviya , Asli Celikyilmaz , Yejin Choi

Commonsense question answering has demonstrated considerable potential across various applications like assistants and social robots. Although fully fine-tuned pre-trained Language Models(LM) have achieved remarkable performance in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Ruiting Dai , Yuqiao Tan , Lisi Mo , Shuang Liang , Guohao Huo , Jiayi Luo , Yao Cheng

Inspired by evidence that pretrained language models (LMs) encode commonsense knowledge, recent work has applied LMs to automatically populate commonsense knowledge graphs (CKGs). However, there is a lack of understanding on their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Peifeng Wang , Filip Ilievski , Muhao Chen , Xiang Ren

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations by capturing user preferences through interactive dialogues. Explainability in CRSs is crucial as it enables users to understand the reasoning behind…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Zhangchi Qiu , Linhao Luo , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) utilize natural language interactions and dialogue history to infer user preferences and provide accurate recommendations. Due to the limited conversation context and background knowledge, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zhangchi Qiu , Ye Tao , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

The problem of data sparsity has long been a challenge in recommendation systems, and previous studies have attempted to address this issue by incorporating side information. However, this approach often introduces side effects such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wei Wei , Xubin Ren , Jiabin Tang , Qinyong Wang , Lixin Su , Suqi Cheng , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin , Chao Huang

Commonsense knowledge graph reasoning(CKGR) is the task of predicting a missing entity given one existing and the relation in a commonsense knowledge graph (CKG). Existing methods can be classified into two categories generation method and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Cunxiang Wang , Jinhang Wu , Luxin Liu , Yue Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly prominent in the recommendation systems domain. Existing studies usually utilize in-context learning or supervised fine-tuning on task-specific data to align LLMs into recommendations. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Zhong Guan , Likang Wu , Hongke Zhao , Ming He , Jianpin Fan

Knowledge graph (KG), integrating complex information and containing rich semantics, is widely considered as side information to enhance the recommendation systems. However, most of the existing KG-based methods concentrate on encoding the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Xiaoming Liu , Shaocong Wu , Zhaohan Zhang , Chao Shen

Knowledge graphs contain rich semantic relationships related to items and incorporating such semantic relationships into recommender systems helps to explore the latent connections of items, thus improving the accuracy of prediction and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre