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The fast development of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers growing opportunities to further improve sequential recommendation systems. Yet for some practitioners, integrating LLMs to their existing base recommendation systems raises…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Nanshan Jia , Chenfei Yuan , Yuhang Wu , Zeyu Zheng

Multi-criteria recommender systems have been increasingly valuable for helping consumers identify the most relevant items based on different dimensions of user experiences. However, previously proposed multi-criteria models did not take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

Existing high-performance deep learning models require very intensive computing. For this reason, it is difficult to embed a deep learning model into a system with limited resources. In this paper, we propose the novel idea of the network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Dae-Woong Jeong , Jaehun Kim , Youngseok Kim , Tae-Ho Kim , Myungsu Chae

The core of the general recommender systems lies in learning high-quality embedding representations of users and items to investigate their positional relations in the feature space. Unfortunately, data sparsity caused by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yi Zhang , Yiwen Zhang

In recent years, recommender systems have advanced rapidly, where embedding learning for users and items plays a critical role. A standard method learns a unique embedding vector for each user and item. However, such a method has two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-13 Yizhou Chen , Guangda Huzhang , Anxiang Zeng , Qingtao Yu , Hui Sun , Heng-yi Li , Jingyi Li , Yabo Ni , Han Yu , Zhiming Zhou

Recommender system models often represent various sparse features like users, items, and categorical features via embeddings. A standard approach is to map each unique feature value to an embedding vector. The size of the produced embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Wang-Cheng Kang , Derek Zhiyuan Cheng , Ting Chen , Xinyang Yi , Dong Lin , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi

Node embedding methods find latent lower-dimensional representations which are used as features in machine learning models. In the last few years, these methods have become extremely popular as a replacement for manual feature engineering.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Christoph Martin , Meike Riebeling

A prevalent practice in recommender systems consists in averaging item embeddings to represent users or higher-level concepts in the same embedding space. This paper investigates the relevance of such a practice. For this purpose, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Walid Bendada , Guillaume Salha-Galvan , Romain Hennequin , Thomas Bouabça , Tristan Cazenave

We propose a unified product embedded representation that is optimized for the task of retrieval-based product recommendation. To this end, we introduce a new way to fuse modality-specific product embeddings into a joint product embedding,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Thomas Nedelec , Elena Smirnova , Flavian Vasile

Recommender systems are software tools used to generate and provide suggestions for items and other entities to the users by exploiting various strategies. Hybrid recommender systems combine two or more recommendation strategies in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Erion Çano , Maurizio Morisio

Recommendation problems with large numbers of discrete items, such as products, webpages, or videos, are ubiquitous in the technology industry. Deep neural networks are being increasingly used for these recommendation problems. These models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Manas R. Joglekar , Cong Li , Jay K. Adams , Pranav Khaitan , Quoc V. Le

Deep neural networks generally involve some layers with mil- lions of parameters, making them difficult to be deployed and updated on devices with limited resources such as mobile phones and other smart embedded systems. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-29 Xing Wang , Jie Liang

The application of machine learning techniques to large-scale personalized recommendation problems is a challenging task. Such systems must make sense of enormous amounts of implicit feedback in order to understand user preferences across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Thom Lake , Sinead A. Williamson , Alexander T. Hawk , Christopher C. Johnson , Benjamin P. Wing

Personalized recommendations are one of the most widely deployed machine learning (ML) workload serviced from cloud datacenters. As such, architectural solutions for high-performance recommendation inference have recently been the target of…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Youngeun Kwon , Yunjae Lee , Minsoo Rhu

Recommender systems are significant to help people deal with the world of information explosion and overload. In this Letter, we develop a general framework named self-consistent refinement and implement it be embedding two representative…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-06-10 Jie Ren , Tao Zhou , Yi-Cheng Zhang

As a crucial component of most modern deep recommender systems, feature embedding maps high-dimensional sparse user/item features into low-dimensional dense embeddings. However, these embeddings are usually assigned a unified dimension,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Liang Qu , Yonghong Ye , Ningzhi Tang , Lixin Zhang , Yuhui Shi , Hongzhi Yin

Recently, the embedding-based recommendation models (e.g., matrix factorization and deep models) have been prevalent in both academia and industry due to their effectiveness and flexibility. However, they also have such intrinsic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Yuan Zhang , Xiaoran Xu , Hanning Zhou , Yan Zhang

Reranking, the process of refining the output of a first-stage retriever, is often considered computationally expensive, especially with Large Language Models. Borrowing from recent advances in document compression for RAG, we reduce the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Hervé Déjean , Stéphane Clinchant

With the exponentially increasing volume of online data, searching and finding required information have become an extensive and time-consuming task. Recommender Systems as a subclass of information retrieval and decision support systems by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Ali Fallahi RahmatAbadi , Javad Mohammadzadeh

Pretrained molecular encoders have become indispensable in computational chemistry for tasks such as property prediction and molecular generation. However, the standard practice of relying solely on final-layer embeddings for downstream…

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