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Recommendations with personalized explanations have been shown to increase user trust and perceived quality and help users make better decisions. Moreover, such explanations allow users to provide feedback by critiquing them. Several…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Diana Petrescu , Diego Antognini , Boi Faltings

Item ranking systems support users in multi-criteria decision-making tasks. Users need to trust rankings and ranking algorithms to reflect user preferences nicely while avoiding systematic errors and biases. However, today only few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 I. Al Hazwani , J. Schmid , M. Sachdeva , J. Bernard

Though recommender systems are defined by personalization, recent work has shown the importance of additional, beyond-accuracy objectives, such as fairness. Because users often expect their recommendations to be purely personalized, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Nasim Sonboli , Jessie J. Smith , Florencia Cabral Berenfus , Robin Burke , Casey Fiesler

Traditional recommender systems based on revealed preferences often fail to capture the fundamental duality in user behavior, where consumption choices are driven by both inherent value (enrichment) and instant appeal (temptation).…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Md Sanzeed Anwar , Paramveer S. Dhillon , Grant Schoenebeck

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly prevalent in recommender systems, where LLMs can be used to generate personalized recommendations. Here, we examine how different LLM-generated explanations for movie recommendations affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yuanjun Feng , Stefan Feuerriegel , Yash Raj Shrestha

In online platforms, recommender systems are responsible for directing users to relevant contents. In order to enhance the users' engagement, recommender systems adapt their output to the reactions of the users, who are in turn affected by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Wilbert Samuel Rossi , Jan Willem Polderman , Paolo Frasca

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic generative model, called unified model, which naturally unifies the ideas of social influence, collaborative filtering and content-based methods for item recommendation. To address the issue of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Mao Ye , Xingjie Liu , Wang-Chien Lee

Recommender systems shape online interactions by matching users with creators content to maximize engagement. Creators, in turn, adapt their content to align with users preferences and enhance their popularity. At the same time, users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Lukas Schüepp , Carmen Amo Alonso , Florian Dörfler , Giulia De Pasquale

Recommender systems are a valuable way to engage users in a system, increase participation and show them resources they may not have found otherwise. One significant challenge is that user interests may change over time and certain items…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Oznur Alkan , Elizabeth Daly

At its core, information access and seeking is an interactive process. In existing search engines, interactions are limited to a few pre-defined actions, such as "requery", "click on a document", "scrolling up/down", "going to the next…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Jacek Gwizdka , Hamed Zamani

Recommender systems play an important role in supporting the achievement of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). In recommender systems, explanations can support different goals, such as increasing a user's trust in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Seda Polat Erdeniz , Alexander Felfernig , Sebastian Lubos , Merfat El-Mansi , Viet-Man Le

This work examines the role of recommender systems in promoting sustainability, social responsibility, and accountability, with a focus on alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As recommender systems become…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Alan Said

Textual explanations have proved to help improve user satisfaction on machine-made recommendations. However, current mainstream solutions loosely connect the learning of explanation with the learning of recommendation: for example, they are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Aobo Yang , Nan Wang , Hongbo Deng , Hongning Wang

A recommender system is a system that helps users filter irrelevant information and create user interest models based on their historical records. With the continuous development of Internet information, recommendation systems have received…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Junan Pan , Zhihao Zhao

The pervasive use of social media provides massive data about individuals' online social activities and their social relations. The building block of most existing recommendation systems is the similarity between users with social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-19 Ghazaleh Beigi , Huan Liu

Providing system-generated explanations for recommendations represents an important step towards transparent and trustworthy recommender systems. Explainable recommender systems provide a human-understandable rationale for their outputs.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Mohamed Amine Chatti , Mouadh Guesmi , Arham Muslim

Conversational recommendation systems (CRSs) use multi-turn interaction to capture user preferences and provide personalized recommendations. A fundamental challenge in CRSs lies in effectively understanding user preferences from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xiaolei Wang , Chunxuan Xia , Junyi Li , Fanzhe Meng , Lei Huang , Jinpeng Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Collaborative filtering recommendation systems provide recommendations to users based on their own past preferences, as well as those of other users who share similar interests. The use of recommendation systems has grown widely in recent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Islam Elnabarawy , Wei Jiang , Donald C. Wunsch

Collaborative filtering is one of the most used approaches for providing recommendations in various online environments. Even though collaborative recommendation methods have been widely utilized due to their simplicity and ease of use,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Nikolaos Polatidis , Christos K. Georgiadis

Recommendation systems are widely used in web services, such as social networks and e-commerce platforms, to serve personalized content to the users and, thus, enhance their experience. While personalization assists users in navigating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Nicolas Lanzetti , Florian Dörfler , Nicolò Pagan