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Pioneering efforts have verified the effectiveness of the diffusion models in exploring the informative uncertainty for recommendation. Considering the difference between recommendation and image synthesis tasks, existing methods have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Haokai Ma , Ruobing Xie , Lei Meng , Xin Chen , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Zhanhui Kang

Recently, motivated by the outstanding achievements of diffusion models, the diffusion process has been employed to strengthen representation learning in recommendation systems. Most diffusion-based recommendation models typically utilize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yongchun Zhu , Guanyu Jiang , Jingwu Chen , Feng Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Diffusion models have emerged as a robust framework for various generative tasks, including tabular data synthesis. However, current tabular diffusion models tend to inherit bias in the training dataset and generate biased synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zeyu Yang , Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Khadija Zanna , Xiaoxue Yang , Akane Sano

Diffusion models, a family of generative models based on deep learning, have become increasingly prominent in cutting-edge machine learning research. With a distinguished performance in generating samples that resemble the observed data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Lequan Lin , Zhengkun Li , Ruikun Li , Xuliang Li , Junbin Gao

This paper presents a diffusion-based recommender system that incorporates classifier-free guidance. Most current recommender systems provide recommendations using conventional methods such as collaborative or content-based filtering.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Noah Buchanan , Susan Gauch , Quan Mai

Recommendation fairness has attracted great attention recently. In real-world systems, users usually have multiple sensitive attributes (e.g. age, gender, and occupation), and users may not want their recommendation results influenced by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Yiqing Wu , Ruobing Xie , Yongchun Zhu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Xiang Ao , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

Sequential recommendation predicts each user's next item based on their historical interaction sequence. Recently, diffusion models have attracted significant attention in this area due to their strong ability to model user interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Li Li , Mingyue Cheng , Yuyang Ye , Zhiding Liu , Enhong Chen

At the intersection of the cutting-edge technologies and privacy concerns, Federated Learning (FL) with its distributed architecture, stands at the forefront in a bid to facilitate collaborative model training across multiple clients while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Noorain Mukhtiar , Adnan Mahmood , Quan Z. Sheng

Generative models such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise in sequential recommendation tasks. However, they face challenges, including posterior collapse and limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sharare Zolghadr , Ole Winther , Paul Jeha

Contrastive learning has been effectively utilized to enhance the training of sequential recommendation models by leveraging informative self-supervised signals. Most existing approaches generate augmented views of the same user sequence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Ziqiang Cui , Haolun Wu , Bowei He , Ji Cheng , Chen Ma

Diffusion models surpass previous generative models in sample quality and training stability. Recent works have shown the advantages of diffusion models in improving reinforcement learning (RL) solutions. This survey aims to provide an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Zhengbang Zhu , Hanye Zhao , Haoran He , Yichao Zhong , Shenyu Zhang , Haoquan Guo , Tingting Chen , Weinan Zhang

In this work, we investigate an intriguing and prevalent phenomenon of diffusion models which we term as "consistent model reproducibility": given the same starting noise input and a deterministic sampler, different diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Huijie Zhang , Jinfan Zhou , Yifu Lu , Minzhe Guo , Peng Wang , Liyue Shen , Qing Qu

Diffusion models have recently shown significant potential in solving decision-making problems, particularly in generating behavior plans -- also known as diffusion planning. While numerous studies have demonstrated the impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haofei Lu , Dongqi Han , Yifei Shen , Dongsheng Li

Recommender systems predict personalized item rankings based on user preference distributions derived from historical behavior data. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have gained attention in recommendation for their ability to model complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuo Liu , An Zhang , Guoqing Hu , Hong Qian , Tat-seng Chua

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading paradigm in generative modeling, excelling in various applications. Despite their success, these models often misalign with human intentions and generate results with undesired properties or even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Buhua Liu , Shitong Shao , Bao Li , Lichen Bai , Zhiqiang Xu , Haoyi Xiong , James Kwok , Sumi Helal , Zeke Xie

As one of the most pervasive applications of machine learning, recommender systems are playing an important role on assisting human decision making. The satisfaction of users and the interests of platforms are closely related to the quality…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yunqi Li , Hanxiong Chen , Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Juntao Tan , Shuchang Liu , Yongfeng Zhang

Recommender systems are known to exhibit fairness issues, particularly on the product side, where products and their associated suppliers receive unequal exposure in recommended results. While this problem has been widely studied in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Huy-Son Nguyen , Yuanna Liu , Masoud Mansoury , Mohammad Alian Nejadi , Alan Hanjalic , Maarten de Rijke

Diffusion models have demonstrated empirical successes in various applications and can be adapted to task-specific needs via guidance. This paper studies a form of gradient guidance for adapting a pre-trained diffusion model towards…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-17 Yingqing Guo , Hui Yuan , Yukang Yang , Minshuo Chen , Mengdi Wang

The predominant success of diffusion models in generative modeling has spurred significant interest in understanding their theoretical foundations. In this work, we propose a feature learning framework aimed at analyzing and comparing the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Andi Han , Wei Huang , Yuan Cao , Difan Zou

Recommender systems remain an essential topic due to its wide application and business potential. Given the great generation capability exhibited by diffusion models in computer vision recently, many recommender systems have adopted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ting-Ruen Wei , Yi Fang