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Iterative generative models such as Flow Matching and Diffusion models have demonstrated strong test-time scaling behavior, where additional inference computation can improve generation quality. In contrast, Drift Models offer efficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenrui Ma , Xi Xiao , Lin Zhao , Tianyang Wang , Ferdinando Fioretto , Yanning Shen

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully employed by many modern recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the user-item interaction data as the sole information source to recommend items to users. However, CF-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Kenan Cui , Xu Chen , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Hao Wang , Naiyan Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung

We introduce a new paradigm for generative modeling built on Continuous Normalizing Flows (CNFs), allowing us to train CNFs at unprecedented scale. Specifically, we present the notion of Flow Matching (FM), a simulation-free approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yaron Lipman , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Heli Ben-Hamu , Maximilian Nickel , Matt Le

Available recommender systems mostly provide recommendations based on the users preferences by utilizing traditional methods such as collaborative filtering which only relies on the similarities between users and items. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Kasra Madadipouya

Recently, matrix factorization-based recommendation methods have been criticized for the problem raised by the triangle inequality violation. Although several metric learning-based approaches have been proposed to overcome this issue,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Chanyoung Park , Donghyun Kim , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

Item-based Collaborative Filtering(short for ICF) has been widely adopted in recommender systems in industry, owing to its strength in user interest modeling and ease in online personalization. By constructing a user's profile with the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Feng Xue , Xiangnan He , Xiang Wang , Jiandong Xu , Kai Liu , Richang Hong

Relevance and diversity are both important to the success of recommender systems, as they help users to discover from a large pool of items a compact set of candidates that are not only interesting but exploratory as well. The challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yifang Liu , Zhentao Xu , Qiyuan An , Yang Yi , Yanzhi Wang , Trevor Hastie

Recommender systems play an important role in many scenarios where users are overwhelmed with too many choices to make. In this context, Collaborative Filtering (CF) arises by providing a simple and widely used approach for personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Gustavo R. Lima , Carlos E. Mello , Geraldo Zimbrao

Intent modeling has attracted widespread attention in recommender systems. As the core motivation behind user selection of items, intent is crucial for elucidating recommendation results. The current mainstream modeling method is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Yi Zhang , Lei Sang , Yiwen Zhang

Hashing is an effective technique to address the large-scale recommendation problem, due to its high computation and storage efficiency on calculating the user preferences on items. However, existing hashing-based recommendation methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Yang Xu , Lei Zhu , Zhiyong Cheng , Jingjing Li , Jiande Sun

Recent research has explored using Large Language Models for recommendation tasks by transforming user interaction histories and item metadata into text prompts, then having the LLM produce rankings or recommendations. A promising approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bo Ma , LuYao Liu , Simon Lau , Chandler Yuan , and XueY Cui , Rosie Zhang

Reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for aligning diffusion and flow-matching models with human preferences, yet practitioners face fragmented codebases, model-specific implementations, and engineering complexity. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Bowen Ping , Chengyou Jia , Minnan Luo , Hangwei Qian , Ivor Tsang

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

The increasing interest in user privacy is leading to new privacy preserving machine learning paradigms. In the Federated Learning paradigm, a master machine learning model is distributed to user clients, the clients use their locally…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Muhammad Ammad-ud-din , Elena Ivannikova , Suleiman A. Khan , Were Oyomno , Qiang Fu , Kuan Eeik Tan , Adrian Flanagan

A growing proportion of human interactions are digitized on social media platforms and subjected to algorithmic decision-making, and it has become increasingly important to ensure fair treatment from these algorithms. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Rashidul Islam , Kamrun Naher Keya , Ziqian Zeng , Shimei Pan , James Foulds

Collaborative filtering algorithms haven been widely used in recommender systems. However, they often suffer from the data sparsity and cold start problems. With the increasing popularity of social media, these problems may be solved by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Chen Luo , Wei Pang , Zhe Wang

Recommendation Systems apply Information Retrieval techniques to select the online information relevant to a given user. Collaborative Filtering is currently most widely used approach to build Recommendation System. CF techniques uses the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-26 Dheeraj kumar Bokde , Sheetal Girase , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely used technique which allows to leverage past users' preferences data to identify behavioural patterns and exploit them to predict custom recommendations. In this work, we illustrate our review of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Andrea Pinto , Giacomo Camposampiero , Loïc Houmard , Marc Lundwall

Flow matching has recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for generative modeling and has been extended to probabilistic time series forecasting in latent spaces. However, the impact of the specific choice of probability path model on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-19 Soon Hoe Lim , Yijin Wang , Annan Yu , Emma Hart , Michael W. Mahoney , Xiaoye S. Li , N. Benjamin Erichson