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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Kamelia Aryafar , Devin Guillory , Liangjie Hong

The task of recommending items to a group of users, a.k.a. group recommendation, is receiving increasing attention. However, the cold-start problem inherent in recommender systems is amplified in group recommendation because interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guo linxin , Tao yinghui , Gao Min , Yu Junliang , Zhao liang , Li Wentao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential for improving recommendation systems through their inherent reasoning capabilities and extensive knowledge base. Yet, existing studies predominantly address warm-start scenarios…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shijun Li , Yu Wang , Jin Wang , Ying Li , Joydeep Ghosh , Anne Cocos

Sequential recommendation has been a widely popular topic of recommender systems. Existing works have contributed to enhancing the prediction ability of sequential recommendation systems based on various methods, such as recurrent networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Yunyi Li , Pengpeng Zhao , Guanfeng Liu , Yanchi Liu , Victor S. Sheng , Jiajie Xu , Xiaofang Zhou

In this work, we present a fast and effective Linear approach for updating recommendations in a scalable graph-based recommender system UltraGCN. Solving this task is extremely important to maintain the relevance of the recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Viacheslav Yusupov , Maxim Rakhuba , Evgeny Frolov

Advertising and feed ranking are essential to many Internet companies such as Facebook. Among many real-world advertising and feed ranking systems, click through rate (CTR) prediction plays a central role. In recent years, many neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Tongwen Huang , Qingyun She , Zhiqiang Wang , Junlin Zhang

Recommendation models utilizing unique identities (IDs) to represent distinct users and items have dominated the recommender systems literature for over a decade. Since multi-modal content of items (e.g., texts and images) and knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Hulingxiao He , Xiangteng He , Yuxin Peng , Zifei Shan , Xin Su

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a pivotal role in online advertising and recommender systems. Despite notable progress in modeling user preferences from historical behaviors, two key challenges persist. First, exsiting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Kesha Ou , Zhen Tian , Wayne Xin Zhao , Hongyu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen

Item representation learning (IRL) plays an essential role in recommender systems, especially for sequential recommendation. Traditional sequential recommendation models usually utilize ID embeddings to represent items, which are not shared…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Shenghao Yang , Chenyang Wang , Yankai Liu , Kangping Xu , Weizhi Ma , Yiqun Liu , Min Zhang , Haitao Zeng , Junlan Feng , Chao Deng

With the increasing availability of videos, how to edit them and present the most interesting parts to users, i.e., video highlight, has become an urgent need with many broad applications. As users'visual preferences are subjective and vary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Le Wu , Yonghui Yang , Lei Chen , Defu Lian , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a set of items to users for overall consumption. Existing bundle recommendation models primarily depend on observed user-bundle interactions, limiting exploration of newly-emerged bundles that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yihang Li , Zhuo Liu , Wei Wei

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is widely used in large-scale recommendation engines because of its efficiency, accuracy and scalability. However, in practice, the fact that recommendation engines based on CF require interactions between users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jianbo Yuan , Walid Shalaby , Mohammed Korayem , David Lin , Khalifeh AlJadda , Jiebo Luo

In the Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction scenario, user's sequential behaviors are well utilized to capture the user interest in the recent literature. However, despite being extensively studied, these sequential methods still suffer from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Kai Zhang , Hao Qian , Qing Cui , Qi Liu , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Jianhui Ma , Enhong Chen

Graph neural networks (GNN) have recently been applied to exploit knowledge graph (KG) for recommendation. Existing GNN-based methods explicitly model the dependency between an entity and its local graph context in KG (i.e., the set of its…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Susen Yang , Yong Liu , Yonghui Xu , Chunyan Miao , Min Wu , Juyong Zhang

Click-through rate prediction is one of the core tasks in commercial recommender systems. It aims to predict the probability of a user clicking a particular item given user and item features. As feature interactions bring in non-linearity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Fuyuan Lyu , Xing Tang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Rui Zhang , Xue Liu

The cold-start problem remains a critical challenge in real-world recommender systems, as new items with limited interaction data or insufficient information are frequently introduced. Despite recent advances leveraging external knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wooseong Yang , Weizhi Zhang , Yuqing Liu , Yuwei Han , Yu Wang , Junhyun Lee , Philip S. Yu

With the rapid growth of digital information, personalized recommendation systems have become an indispensable part of Internet services, especially in the fields of e-commerce, social media, and online entertainment. However, traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yuanshuai Luo , Rui Wang , Yaxin Liang , Ankai Liang , Wenyi Liu

Multimodal click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a key technique in industrial recommender systems. It leverages heterogeneous modalities such as text, images, and behavioral logs to capture high-order feature interactions between users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Honghao Li , Hanwei Li , Jing Zhang , Yi Zhang , Ziniu Yu , Lei Sang , Yiwen Zhang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the core tasks in recommender systems (RS). It predicts a personalized click probability for each user-item pair. Recently, researchers have found that the performance of CTR model can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Qiwei Chen , Changhua Pei , Shanshan Lv , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Recently, neural models for information retrieval are becoming increasingly popular. They provide effective approaches for product search due to their competitive advantages in semantic matching. However, it is challenging to use…

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