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Meal recommendation, as a typical health-related recommendation task, contains complex relationships between users, courses, and meals. Among them, meal-course affiliation associates user-meal and user-course interactions. However, an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ming Li , Lin Li , Xiaohui Tao , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Recommender systems apply data mining techniques and prediction algorithms to predict users' interest on information, products and services among the tremendous amount of available items. The vast growth of information on the Internet as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Dhoha Almazro , Ghadeer Shahatah , Lamia Albdulkarim , Mona Kherees , Romy Martinez , William Nzoukou

Recommendation is the task of improving customer experience through personalized recommendation based on users' past feedback. In this paper, we investigate the most common scenario: the user-item (U-I) matrix of implicit feedback. Even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Peng Yang , Peilin Zhao , Xin Gao , Yong Liu

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of data mining and machine learning technology in practice. Academic research in the field is historically often based on the matrix completion problem formulation, where for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Massimo Quadrana , Paolo Cremonesi , Dietmar Jannach

Sequential recommendation aims to predict a user's next action in large-scale recommender systems. While traditional methods often suffer from insufficient information interaction, recent generative recommendation models partially address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Yucheng Mao , Lingyu Mu , Jinxin Hu , Yi Xu , Hao Zhang , Jiahao Wang , Shizhun Wang , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Weblogs, comprised of records detailing user activities on any website, offer valuable insights into user preferences, behavior, and interests. Numerous recommendation algorithms, employing strategies such as collaborative filtering,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Saketh Reddy Karra , Theja Tulabandhula

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising performance in sequential recommendation tasks, leveraging their superior language understanding capabilities. However, existing LLM-based recommendation approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Minglai Shao , Hua Huang , Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu

The feedback loop in industrial recommendation systems reinforces homogeneous content, creates filter bubble effects, and diminishes user satisfaction. Recently, large language models(LLMs) have demonstrated potential in serendipity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Qian Yong , Yanhui Li , Jialiang Shi , Yaguang Dou , Tian Qi

Although sophisticated sequence modeling paradigms have achieved remarkable success in recommender systems, the information capacity of hand-crafted sequential features constrains the performance upper bound. To better enhance user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Xinchun Li , Ning Zhang , Qianqian Yang , Fei Teng , Wenlin Zhao , Huizhi Yang , Heng Shi , Linlan Chen , Yixin Wu , Zhen Wang , Daiye Hou , Fei Qin , Lele Yu , Yaocheng Tan

Recommending items to potentially interested users has been an important commercial task that faces two main challenges: accuracy and explainability. While most collaborative filtering models rely on statistical computations on a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Lei Pan , Von-Wun Soo

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in recommendation systems, online searches, and advertising platforms, where accurately capturing users' real interests in content is essential for performance. However, existing methods…

In this era of information explosion, a personalized recommendation system is convenient for users to get information they are interested in. To deal with billions of users and items, large-scale online recommendation services usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Xu Yuan , Chen Xu , Qiwei Chen , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Giving or recommending appropriate content based on the quality of experience is the most important and challenging issue in recommender systems. As collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most prominent and popular techniques used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Cong Tran , Jang-Young Kim , Won-Yong Shin , Sang-Wook Kim

We consider an online model for recommendation systems, with each user being recommended an item at each time-step and providing 'like' or 'dislike' feedback. A latent variable model specifies the user preferences: both users and items are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-29 Mina Karzand , Guy Bresler

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled more semantic-aware recommendations through natural language generation. Existing LLM for recommendation (LLM4Rec) methods mostly operate in a System 1-like manner, relying on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Qihang Yu , Kairui Fu , Zheqi Lv , Shengyu Zhang , Xinhui Wu , Chen Lin , Feng Wei , Bo Zheng , Fei Wu

Recommender Systems (RSs) are exploited by various business enterprises to suggest their products (items) to consumers (users). Collaborative filtering (CF) is a widely used variant of RSs which learns hidden patterns from user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Nikita Baidya , Bidyut Kr. Patra , Ratnakar Dash

In recommender systems, cold-start issues are situations where no previous events, e.g. ratings, are known for certain users or items. In this paper, we focus on the item cold-start problem. Both content information (e.g. item attributes)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Yu Zhu , Jinhao Lin , Shibi He , Beidou Wang , Ziyu Guan , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

Recommendation systems are essential for personalizing e-commerce shopping experiences. Among these, Trigger-Induced Recommendation (TIR) has emerged as a key scenario, which utilizes a trigger item (explicitly represents a user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zhihao Lv , Longtao Zhang , Ailong He , Shuzhi Cao , Shuguang Han , Jufeng Chen

With the prosperity of business intelligence, recommender systems have evolved into a new stage that we not only care about what to recommend, but why it is recommended. Explainability of recommendations thus emerges as a focal point of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Guannan Liu , Liang Zhang , Junjie Wu , Xiao Fang

Sequential recommendation is a task to capture hidden user preferences from historical user item interaction data and recommend next items for the user. Significant progress has been made in this domain by leveraging classification based…

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