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Continual learning of deep neural networks is a key requirement for scaling them up to more complex applicative scenarios and for achieving real lifelong learning of these architectures. Previous approaches to the problem have considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Jary Pomponi , Simone Scardapane , Vincenzo Lomonaco , Aurelio Uncini

As the core of recommender system, collaborative filtering (CF) models the affinity between a user and an item from historical user-item interactions, such as clicks, purchases, and so on. Benefited from the strong representation power,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Xiaoyu Du , Xiangnan He , Fajie Yuan , Jinhui Tang , Zhiguang Qin , Tat-Seng Chua

Personalized recommendation is ubiquitous, playing an important role in many online services. Substantial research has been dedicated to learning vector representations of users and items with the goal of predicting a user's preference for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianing Sun , Yingxue Zhang , Chen Ma , Mark Coates , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He

Standard Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms make use of interactions between users and items in the form of implicit or explicit ratings alone for generating recommendations. Similarity among users or items is calculated purely based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Jobin Wilson , Santanu Chaudhury , Brejesh Lall , Prateek Kapadia

Federated recommendation (FR) is a promising paradigm to protect user privacy in recommender systems. Distinct from general federated scenarios, FR inherently needs to preserve client-specific parameters, i.e., user embeddings, for privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Jundong Chen , Honglei Zhang , Haoxuan Li , Chunxu Zhang , Zhiwei Li , Yidong Li

Federated recommender systems have distinct advantages in terms of privacy protection over traditional recommender systems that are centralized at a data center. However, previous work on federated recommender systems does not fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yujie Lin , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Dongxiao Yu , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke , Xiuzhen Cheng

Collaborative Filtering~(CF) plays a crucial role in modern recommender systems, leveraging historical user-item interactions to provide personalized suggestions. However, CF-based methods often encounter biases due to imbalances in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Miaomiao Cai , Min Hou , Lei Chen , Le Wu , Haoyue Bai , Yong Li , Meng Wang

User-item interactions in recommendations can be naturally de-noted as a user-item bipartite graph. Given the success of graph neural networks (GNNs) in graph representation learning, GNN-based C methods have been proposed to advance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Yiqi Wang , Chaozhuo Li , Mingzheng Li , Wei Jin , Yuming Liu , Hao Sun , Xing Xie , Jiliang Tang

Collaborative filtering (CF), as a fundamental approach for recommender systems, is usually built on the latent factor model with learnable parameters to predict users' preferences towards items. However, designing a proper CF model for a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Chen Gao , Quanming Yao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

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

The essence of the challenges cold start and sparsity in Recommender Systems (RS) is that the extant techniques, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Matrix Factorization (MF), mainly rely on the user-item rating matrix, which sometimes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Fangfang Li , Guandong Xu , Longbing Cao

Matrix factorization (MF) is a widely used collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm for recommendation systems (RSs), due to its high prediction accuracy, great flexibility and high efficiency in big data processing. However, with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yining Wu , Shengyu Duan , Gaole Sai , Chenhong Cao , Guobing Zou

Collaborative Filtering (CF), the most common approach to build Recommender Systems, became pervasive in our daily lives as consumers of products and services. However, challenges limit the effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Miguel G. Silva , Rui Henriques , Sara C. Madeira

Embedding models, which learn latent representations of users and items based on user-item interaction patterns, are a key component of recommendation systems. In many applications, contextual constraints need to be applied to refine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Syrine Krichene , Mike Gartrell , Clement Calauzenes

User-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to create recommender systems. This approach is based on finding the most relevant k users from whose rating history we can extract items to recommend. CF,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Tomislav Duricic , Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Elisabeth Lex

Collaborative Filtering (CF) has been successfully used to help users discover the items of interest. Nevertheless, existing CF methods suffer from noisy data issue, which negatively impacts the quality of recommendation. To tackle this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoting Li , Vivian Lai , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Yujie Fan , Yan Zheng , Mahashweta Das , Hao Yang

The past few years have witnessed the great success of recommender systems, which can significantly help users find out personalized items for them from the information era. One of the most widely applied recommendation methods is the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Chu-Xu Zhang , Zi-Ke Zhang , Lu Yu , Chuang Liu , Hao Liu , Xiao-Yong Yan

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely used and effective technique for recommender systems. In recent decades, there have been significant advancements in latent embedding-based CF methods for improved accuracy, such as matrix…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yuntao Du , Jianxun Lian , Jing Yao , Xiting Wang , Mingqi Wu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Xing Xie

In this paper, we propose a novel ranking framework for collaborative filtering with the overall aim of learning user preferences over items by minimizing a pairwise ranking loss. We show the minimization problem involves dependent random…

Matrix factorization (MF) is a common method for collaborative filtering. MF represents user preferences and item attributes by latent factors. Despite that MF is a powerful method, it suffers from not be able to identifying strong…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Binh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu