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Recommender systems help users navigate information overload by providing personalized recommendations aligned with their preferences. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely adopted approach, but while advanced techniques like graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qiyao Ma , Xubin Ren , Chao Huang

Session-based recommendation (SR) has gained increasing attention in recent years. Quite a great amount of studies have been devoted to designing complex algorithms to improve recommendation performance, where deep learning methods account…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Huizi Wu , Hui Fang , Zhu Sun , Cong Geng , Xinyu Kong , Yew-Soon Ong

Natural language explanations in recommender systems are often framed as a review generation task, leveraging user reviews as ground-truth supervision. While convenient, this approach conflates a user's opinion with the system's reasoning,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 S. M. F. Sani , Asal Meskin , Mohammad Amanlou , Hamid R. Rabiee

Recommendation system could help the companies to persuade users to visit or consume at a particular place, which was based on many traditional methods such as the set of collaborative filtering algorithms. Most research discusses the model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Jionghao Lin , Yiren Liu

In the last years many accurate decision support systems have been constructed as black boxes, that is as systems that hide their internal logic to the user. This lack of explanation constitutes both a practical and an ethical issue. The…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Riccardo Guidotti , Anna Monreale , Salvatore Ruggieri , Franco Turini , Dino Pedreschi , Fosca Giannotti

News recommender systems (NRS) have been widely applied for online news websites to help users find relevant articles based on their interests. Recent methods have demonstrated considerable success in terms of recommendation performance.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Dairui Liu , Derek Greene , Irene Li , Xuefei Jiang , Ruihai Dong

For AI systems to garner widespread public acceptance, we must develop methods capable of explaining the decisions of black-box models such as neural networks. In this work, we identify two issues of current explanatory methods. First, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Oana-Maria Camburu , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Jakob Foerster , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Phil Blunsom

Explainability and effectiveness are two key aspects for building recommender systems. Prior efforts mostly focus on incorporating side information to achieve better recommendation performance. However, these methods have some weaknesses:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Weizhi Ma , Min Zhang , Yue Cao , Woojeong , Jin , Chenyang Wang , Yiqun Liu , Shaoping Ma , Xiang Ren

In recent years, the field of recommendation systems has attracted increasing attention to developing predictive models that provide explanations of why an item is recommended to a user. The explanations can be either obtained by post-hoc…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yifeng Guo , Yu Su , Zebin Yang , Aijun Zhang

Machine learning methods have significantly improved in their predictive capabilities, but at the same time they are becoming more complex and less transparent. As a result, explainers are often relied on to provide interpretability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Zulqarnain Khan , Davin Hill , Aria Masoomi , Joshua Bone , Jennifer Dy

A lot of effort in recent years have been expended to explain machine learning systems. However, some machine learning methods are inherently explainable, and thus are not completely black box. This enables the developers to make sense of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Fajrian Yunus , Talel Abdessalem

Explainable recommender systems can explain their recommendation decisions, enhancing user trust in the systems. Most explainable recommender systems either rely on human-annotated rationales to train models for explanation generation or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Hanqi Yan , Lin Gui , Menghan Wang , Kun Zhang , Yulan He

A trustworthy machine learning model should be accurate as well as explainable. Understanding why a model makes a certain decision defines the notion of explainability. While various flavors of explainability have been well-studied in…

Transparency is a fundamental requirement for decision making systems when these should be deployed in the real world. It is usually achieved by providing explanations of the system's behavior. A prominent and intuitive type of explanations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 André Artelt , Valerie Vaquet , Riza Velioglu , Fabian Hinder , Johannes Brinkrolf , Malte Schilling , Barbara Hammer

Norm-aware recommender systems have gained increased attention, especially for diversity optimization. The recommender systems community has well-established experimentation pipelines that support reproducible evaluations by facilitating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Lucien Heitz , Runze Li , Oana Inel , Abraham Bernstein

Session-based Recommendation (SR) systems have recently achieved considerable success, yet their complex, "black box" nature often obscures why certain recommendations are made. Existing explanation methods struggle to pinpoint truly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Han Zhou , Hui Fang , Zhu Sun , Wentao Hu

Explaining automatically generated recommendations allows users to make more informed and accurate decisions about which results to utilize, and therefore improves their satisfaction. In this work, we develop a multi-task learning solution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Nan Wang , Hongning Wang , Yiling Jia , Yue Yin

Latent factor collaborative filtering (CF) has been a widely used technique for recommender system by learning the semantic representations of users and items. Recently, explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Deng Pan , Xiangrui Li , Xin Li , Dongxiao Zhu

Explanations in conventional recommender systems have demonstrated benefits in helping the user understand the rationality of the recommendations and improving the system's efficiency, transparency, and trustworthiness. In the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuyu Guo , Shuo Zhang , Weiwei Sun , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren

This study explores the development of an explainable music recommendation system with enhanced user control. Leveraging a hybrid of collaborative filtering and content-based filtering, we address the challenges of opaque recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Abhinav Arun , Mehul Soni , Palash Choudhary , Saksham Arora