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Cross-domain Recommendation (CDR) exploits multi-domain correlations to alleviate data sparsity. As a core task within this field, inter-domain recommendation focuses on predicting preferences for users who interact in a source domain but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ziang Lu , Lei Sang , Lin Mu , Yiwen Zhang

In recent years, Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) have been shown to be highly effective in both standard collaborative filtering applications and extensions such as incorporation of implicit feedback. We extend VAEs to collaborative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-09 Giannis Karamanolakis , Kevin Raji Cherian , Ananth Ravi Narayan , Jie Yuan , Da Tang , Tony Jebara

Sequential recommendation (SR) is widely deployed in e-commerce platforms, streaming services, etc., revealing significant potential to enhance user experience. However, existing methods often overlook two critical factors: irregular user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Haoyan Fu , Zhida Qin , Shixiao Yang , Haoyao Zhang , Bin Lu , Shuang Li , Tianyu Huang , John C. S. Lui

The goal of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user's potential interested items based on her/his historical interaction sequences. Most existing sequential recommenders are developed based on ID features, which, despite their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinpeng Wang , Ziyun Zeng , Yunxiao Wang , Yuting Wang , Xingyu Lu , Tianxiang Li , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shu-Tao Xia

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to alleviate data sparsity by transferring knowledge across domains, yet existing methods primarily rely on coarse-grained behavioral signals and often overlook intra-domain heterogeneity in user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Daehee Kang , Yeon-Chang Lee

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) and Cross-System Recommendations (CSR) are two of the promising solutions to address the long-standing data sparsity problem in recommender systems. They leverage the relatively richer information, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Feng Zhu , Yan Wang , Chaochao Chen , Guanfeng Liu , Mehmet Orgun , Jia Wu

In the contemporary digital landscape, the continuous generation of extensive streaming data across diverse domains has become pervasive. Yet, a significant portion of this data remains unlabeled, posing a challenge in identifying…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Jin Li , Kleanthis Malialis , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

In the online digital realm, recommendation systems are ubiquitous and play a crucial role in enhancing user experience. These systems leverage user preferences to provide personalized recommendations, thereby helping users navigate through…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Jaime Hieu Do , Trung-Hoang Le , Hady W. Lauw

Recommender systems are indispensable for helping users navigate the immense item catalogs of modern online platforms. Recently, generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, unifying the conventional retrieve-and-rank…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Dengzhao Fang , Jingtong Gao , Chengcheng Zhu , Yu Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Yi Chang

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have revolutionized recommender systems by effectively modeling complex user-item interactions, yet data sparsity and the item cold-start problem significantly impair performance, particularly for new items with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jialin Liu , Zhaorui Zhang , Ray C. C. Cheung

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammmadmahdi Maheri , Reza Abdollahzadeh , Bardia Mohammadi , Mina Rafiei , Jafar Habibi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Sequential recommendation (SR) aims to model user preferences by capturing behavior patterns from their item historical interaction data. Most existing methods model user preference in the time domain, omitting the fact that users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Xinyu Du , Huanhuan Yuan , Pengpeng Zhao , Junhua Fang , Guanfeng Liu , Yanchi Liu , Victor S. Sheng , Xiaofang Zhou

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) could capture dynamic user preferences by modeling historical behaviors ordered in time. Despite effectiveness, focusing only on the \textit{collaborative signals} from behaviors does not fully grasp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Fajie Yuan , Zhi Li , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Li

Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) provide a flexible and scalable framework for non-linear dimensionality reduction. However, in application domains such as genomics where data sets are typically tabular and high-dimensional, a black-box…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-10 Kaspar Märtens , Christopher Yau

One of the main challenges in Recommender Systems (RSs) is the New User problem which happens when the system has to generate personalised recommendations for a new user whom the system has no information about. Active Learning tries to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Roberto Pagano , Massimo Quadrana , Mehdi Elahi , Paolo Cremonesi

In this paper, we propose a Conditioned Variational Autoencoder (C-VAE) for constrained top-N item recommendation where the recommended items must satisfy a given condition. The proposed model architecture is similar to a standard VAE in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Tommaso Carraro , Mirko Polato , Fabio Aiolli

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays an indispensable role in online platforms. Numerous models have been proposed to capture users' shifting preferences by leveraging user behavior sequences. However, these historical sequences often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junjie Huang , Guohao Cai , Jieming Zhu , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Recommendation plays a key role in e-commerce, enhancing user experience and boosting commercial success. Existing works mainly focus on recommending a set of items, but online e-commerce platforms have recently begun to pay attention to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Qihao Wang , Pritom Saha Akash , Varvara Kollia , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Biwei Jiang , Vadim Von Brzeski

Representation disentanglement may help AI fundamentally understand the real world and thus benefit both discrimination and generation tasks. It currently has at least three unresolved core issues: (i) heavy reliance on label annotation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xin Jin , Bohan Li , BAAO Xie , Wenyao Zhang , Jinming Liu , Ziqiang Li , Tao Yang , Wenjun Zeng

Users' interactions with items are driven by various intents (e.g., preparing for holiday gifts, shopping for fishing equipment, etc.).However, users' underlying intents are often unobserved/latent, making it challenging to leverage such…

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