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Recommender systems are crucial to alleviate the information overload problem in online worlds. Most of the modern recommender systems capture users' preference towards items via their interactions based on collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Dawei Yin , Jianping Wang , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

Multimodal data has significantly advanced recommendation systems by integrating diverse information sources to model user preferences and item characteristics. However, these systems often struggle with redundant and irrelevant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Hui Wang , Jinghui Qin , Wushao Wen , Qingling Li , Shanshan Zhong , Zhongzhan Huang

Learning to rank with biased click data is a well-known challenge. A variety of methods has been explored to debias click data for learning to rank such as click models, result interleaving and, more recently, the unbiased learning-to-rank…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Qingyao Ai , Keping Bi , Cheng Luo , Jiafeng Guo , W. Bruce Croft

The increasing availability and diversity of multimodal data in recommender systems offer new avenues for enhancing recommendation accuracy and user satisfaction. However, these systems must contend with high-dimensional, sparse user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Yasser Khalafaoui , Martino Lovisetto , Basarab Matei , Nistor Grozavu

Contrastive Learning has recently received interest due to its success in self-supervised representation learning in the computer vision domain. However, the origins of Contrastive Learning date as far back as the 1990s and its development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Phuc H. Le-Khac , Graham Healy , Alan F. Smeaton

Contrastive learning has shown promising potential in self-supervised spatio-temporal representation learning. Most works naively sample different clips to construct positive and negative pairs. However, we observe that this formulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Shuangrui Ding , Rui Qian , Hongkai Xiong

Collaborative filtering (CF) models easily suffer from popularity bias, which makes recommendation deviate from users' actual preferences. However, most current debiasing strategies are prone to playing a trade-off game between head and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 An Zhang , Wenchang Ma , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

What we discover and see online, and consequently our opinions and decisions, are becoming increasingly affected by automated machine learned predictions. Similarly, the predictive accuracy of learning machines heavily depends on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Sami Khenissi , Olfa Nasraoui

Popularity bias is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. Such a bias exerts detrimental impact on both users and item providers, and many efforts have been dedicated to studying and solving such a bias. However, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Ziwei Zhu , Yun He , Xing Zhao , James Caverlee

Implicit feedback has been widely used to build commercial recommender systems. Because observed feedback represents users' click logs, there is a semantic gap between true relevance and observed feedback. More importantly, observed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jae-woong Lee , Seongmin Park , Joonseok Lee , Jongwuk Lee

Recommender systems usually learn user interests from various user behaviors, including clicks and post-click behaviors (e.g., like and favorite). However, these behaviors inevitably exhibit popularity bias, leading to some unfairness…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Xi Wang , Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Wenge Rong , Chuantao Yin , Zhang Xiong

Bundle recommendation aims to provide a bundle of items to satisfy the user preference on e-commerce platform. Existing successful solutions are based on the contrastive graph learning paradigm where graph neural networks (GNNs) are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Zhao-Yang Liu , Liucheng Sun , Chenwei Weng , Qijin Chen , Chengfu Huo

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) are designed to predict users' future behaviors based on their historical interaction data. Recent research has increasingly utilized contrastive learning (CL) to leverage unsupervised signals to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Peilin Zhou , You-Liang Huang , Yueqi Xie , Jingqi Gao , Shoujin Wang , Jae Boum Kim , Sunghun Kim

Contrastive self-supervised learning has recently benefited fMRI classification with inductive biases. Its weak label reliance prevents overfitting on small medical datasets and tackles the high intraclass variances. Nonetheless, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Xuesong Wang , Lina Yao , Islem Rekik , Yu Zhang

The effectiveness of contrastive learning in sequential recommendation hinges on the construction of contrastive views, which ideally should be both semantically consistent and diverse. However, most existing CL-based methods rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Wang

Deep retrieval models are widely used for learning entity representations and recommendations. Federated learning provides a privacy-preserving way to train these models without requiring centralization of user data. However, federated deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Lin Ning , Karan Singhal , Ellie X. Zhou , Sushant Prakash

Large-scale industrial recommendation models predict the most relevant items from catalogs containing millions or billions of options. To train these models efficiently, a small set of irrelevant items (negative samples) is selected from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Arushi Prakash , Dimitrios Bermperidis , Srivas Chennu

Recently, as an effective way of learning latent representations, contrastive learning has been increasingly popular and successful in various domains. The success of constrastive learning in single-label classifications motivates us to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Son D. Dao , Ethan Zhao , Dinh Phung , Jianfei Cai

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

Medical multimodal representation learning aims to integrate heterogeneous data into unified patient representations to support clinical outcome prediction. However, real-world medical datasets commonly contain systematic biases from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xiaoguang Zhu , Linxiao Gong , Lianlong Sun , Yang Liu , Haoyu Wang , Jing Liu