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Contrastive learning has emerged as a powerful method in deep learning, excelling at learning effective representations through contrasting samples from different distributions. However, neural collapse, where embeddings converge into a…

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Multimodal contrastive learning (MCL) aims to embed data from different modalities in a shared embedding space. However, empirical evidence shows that representations from different modalities occupy completely separate regions of embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Lingjie Yi , Raphael Douady , Chao Chen

As global e-commerce rapidly expands into emerging markets, the lack of high-quality semantic representations for low-resource languages has become a decisive bottleneck for retrieval, recommendation, and search systems. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Pakorn Ueareeworakul , Shuman Liu , Jinghao Feng , Ling Hu , Zhantang Shi , Chengqi Sun , Liang Yao , Panyi Ouyang , Haibo Zhang , Anxiang Zeng

Embedding based product recommendations have gained popularity in recent years due to its ability to easily integrate to large-scale systems and allowing nearest neighbor searches in real-time. The bulk of studies in this area has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Giorgi Kvernadze , Putu Ayu G. Sudyanti , Nishan Subedi , Mohammad Hajiaghayi

In large language model (LLM)-based recommendation systems, direct preference optimization (DPO) effectively aligns recommendations with user preferences, requiring multi-negative objective functions to leverage abundant implicit-feedback…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xingyu Hu , Kai Zhang , Jiancan Wu , Shuli Wang , Chi Wang , Wenshuai Chen , Yinhua Zhu , Haitao Wang , Xingxing Wang , Xiang Wang

Deep learning has become very popular for tasks such as predictive modeling and pattern recognition in handling big data. Deep learning is a powerful machine learning method that extracts lower level features and feeds them forward for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Steven Young , Tamer Abdou , Ayse Bener

Cross domain recommender systems have been increasingly valuable for helping consumers identify useful items in different applications. However, existing cross-domain models typically require large number of overlap users, which can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

Precise user and item embedding learning is the key to building a successful recommender system. Traditionally, Collaborative Filtering(CF) provides a way to learn user and item embeddings from the user-item interaction history. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Le Wu , Peijie Sun , Yanjie Fu , Richang Hong , Xiting Wang , Meng Wang

Collaborative Filtering (CF) based recommendation methods have been widely studied, which can be generally categorized into two types, i.e., representation learning-based CF methods and matching function learning-based CF methods.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi-Yuan Hu , Jin Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Chang-Dong Wang , Ling Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Recently, deep learning models have achieved great success in computer vision applications, relying on large-scale class-balanced datasets. However, imbalanced class distributions still limit the wide applicability of these models due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Yechan Kim , Younkwan Lee , Moongu Jeon

Over the recent years, various deep learning-based methods were proposed for extracting a fixed-dimensional embedding vector from speech signals. Although the deep learning-based embedding extraction methods have shown good performance in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Woo Hyun Kang , Jahangir Alam , Abderrahim Fathan

Recent studies have noted an intriguing phenomenon termed Neural Collapse, that is, when the neural networks establish the right correlation between feature spaces and the training targets, their last-layer features, together with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Yining Wang , Junjie Sun , Chenyue Wang , Mi Zhang , Min Yang

Sampling strategies have been widely applied in many recommendation systems to accelerate model learning from implicit feedback data. A typical strategy is to draw negative instances with uniform distribution, which however will severely…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Jiawei Chen , Chengquan Jiang , Can Wang , Sheng Zhou , Yan Feng , Chun Chen , Martin Ester , Xiangnan He

Although considerable effort has been dedicated to improving the solution to the hyperspectral unmixing problem, non-idealities such as complex radiation scattering and endmember variability negatively impact the performance of most…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Ricardo Augusto Borsoi , Deniz Erdoğmuş , Tales Imbiriba

With the continuous increase of users and items, conventional recommender systems trained on static datasets can hardly adapt to changing environments. The high-throughput data requires the model to be updated in a timely manner for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Bowei He , Xu He , Renrui Zhang , Yingxue Zhang , Ruiming Tang , Chen Ma

Contrastive learning (CL) has emerged as a promising technique for improving recommender systems, addressing the challenge of data sparsity by using self-supervised signals from raw data. Integration of CL with graph convolutional network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Jeongwhan Choi , Hyowon Wi , Chaejeong Lee , Sung-Bae Cho , Dongha Lee , Noseong Park

Session-based recommendation systems(SBRS) are more suitable for the current e-commerce and streaming media recommendation scenarios and thus have become a hot topic. The data encountered by SBRS is typically highly sparse, which also…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Zihan Wang , Gang Wu , Haotong Wang

This paper presents a solution to the challenges faced by contrastive learning in sequential recommendation systems. In particular, it addresses the issue of false negative, which limits the effectiveness of recommendation algorithms. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jaeheyoung Jeon , Jung Hyun Ryu , Jewoong Cho , Myungjoo Kang

Recently, self-supervised representation learning gives further development in multimedia technology. Most existing self-supervised learning methods are applicable to packaged data. However, when it comes to streamed data, they are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zhiwei Lin , Yongtao Wang , Hongxiang Lin

Music recommender systems frequently utilize network-based models to capture relationships between music pieces, artists, and users. Although these relationships provide valuable insights for predictions, new music pieces or artists often…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Florian Grötschla , Luca Strässle , Luca A. Lanzendörfer , Roger Wattenhofer