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Content-based and collaborative filtering methods are the most successful solutions in recommender systems. Content based method is based on items attributes. This method checks the features of users favourite items and then proposes the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Niloofar Rastin , Mansoor Zolghadri Jahromi

This paper presents a deployed, production-grade system designed to enhance and scale search query datasets for intent-based recommendation systems in digital banking. In real-world environments, the growing volume and complexity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Aaron Rodrigues , Mahmood Hegazy , Azzam Naeem

Although multi-interest recommenders have achieved significant progress in the matching stage, our research reveals that existing models tend to exhibit an under-clustered item embedding space, which leads to a low discernibility between…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Yaokun Liu , Xiaowang Zhang , Minghui Zou , Zhiyong Feng

With the rapid expansion of user bases on short video platforms, personalized recommendation systems are playing an increasingly critical role in enhancing user experience and optimizing content distribution. Traditional interest modeling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Yushang Zhao , Yike Peng , Li Zhang , Qianyi Sun , Zhihui Zhang , Yingying Zhuang

As the final stage of the multi-stage recommender system (MRS), reranking directly affects users' experience and satisfaction, thus playing a critical role in MRS. Despite the improvement achieved in the existing work, three issues are yet…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Yunjia Xi , Weiwen Liu , Jieming Zhu , Xilong Zhao , Xinyi Dai , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Rui Zhang , Yong Yu

Users consume their favorite content in temporal proximity of consumption bundles according to their preferences and tastes. Thus, the underlying attributes of items implicitly match user preferences, however, current recommender systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Arun Kumar , Karan Aggarwal , Paul Schrater

Preference elicitation plays a central role in interactive recommender systems. Most preference elicitation approaches use either item queries that ask users to select preferred items from a slate, or attribute queries that ask them to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Erdem Biyik , Fan Yao , Yinlam Chow , Alex Haig , Chih-wei Hsu , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Craig Boutilier

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

Personalization despite being an effective solution to the problem information overload remains tricky on account of multiple dimensions to consider. Furthermore, the challenge of avoiding overdoing personalization involves estimation of a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Arjumand Younus , Muhammad Atif Qureshi

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is able to obtain fine-grained and dynamic user preferences based on interactive dialogue. Previous CRS assumes that the user has a clear target item. However, for many users who resort to CRS,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Yiming Zhang , Lingfei Wu , Qi Shen , Yitong Pang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Bo Long , Jian Pei

Cross-domain recommendation aims to leverage knowledge from multiple domains to alleviate the data sparsity and cold-start problems in traditional recommender systems. One popular paradigm is to employ overlapping user representations to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Chuang Zhao , Hongke Zhao , Ming He , Jian Zhang , Jianping Fan

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

Modeling the sequential correlation of users' historical interactions is essential in sequential recommendation. However, the majority of the approaches mainly focus on modeling the \emph{intra-sequence} item correlation within each…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Feng Liu , Weiwen Liu , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye

Sequential recommendation aims at identifying the next item that is preferred by a user based on their behavioral history. Compared to conventional sequential models that leverage attention mechanisms and RNNs, recent efforts mainly follow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Yu Tian , Jianxin Chang , Yannan Niu , Yang Song , Chenliang Li

Based on the user-item bipartite network, collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems predict users' interests according to their history collections, which is a promising way to solve the information exploration problem. However, CF…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-12-13 Zhao-Guo Xuan , Zhan Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Preference learning from pairwise feedback is a widely adopted framework in applications such as reinforcement learning with human feedback and recommendations. In many practical settings, however, user interactions are limited or costly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Jingyuan Liu , Fatemeh Ghaffari , Xuchuang Wang , Xutong Liu , Mohammad Hajiesmaili , Carlee Joe-Wong

Online groups have become increasingly prevalent, providing users with space to share experiences and explore interests. Therefore, user-centric group discovery task, i.e., recommending groups to users can help both users' online…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Xixi Wu , Yun Xiong , Yao Zhang , Yizhu Jiao , Jiawei Zhang

User interest modeling is critical for personalized news recommendation. Existing news recommendation methods usually learn a single user embedding for each user from their previous behaviors to represent their overall interest. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Tao Qi , Fangzhao Wu , Chuhan Wu , Peiru Yang , Yang Yu , Xing Xie , Yongfeng Huang

Product search serves as an important entry point for online shopping. In contrast to web search, the retrieved results in product search not only need to be relevant but also should satisfy customers' preferences in order to elicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Keping Bi , Choon Hui Teo , Yesh Dattatreya , Vijai Mohan , W. Bruce Croft

Learning user preferences for products based on their past purchases or reviews is at the cornerstone of modern recommendation engines. One complication in this learning task is that some users are more likely to purchase products or review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Wanning Chen , Mohsen Bayati