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Recommender systems are essential components of many online platforms, yet traditional approaches still struggle with understanding complex user preferences and providing explainable recommendations. The emergence of Large Language Model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Qiyao Peng , Hongtao Liu , Hua Huang , Qing Yang , Minglai Shao

One of the main challenges in recommender systems is data sparsity which leads to high variance. Several attempts have been made to improve the bias-variance trade-off using auxiliary information. In particular, document modeling-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Meysam Varasteh , Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Ahmad Kalhor

Recent advancements in explainable recommendation have greatly bolstered user experience by elucidating the decision-making rationale. However, the existing methods actually fail to provide effective feedback signals for potentially better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jiakai Tang , Jingsen Zhang , Zihang Tian , Xueyang Feng , Lei Wang , Xu Chen

The fast development of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers growing opportunities to further improve sequential recommendation systems. Yet for some practitioners, integrating LLMs to their existing base recommendation systems raises…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Nanshan Jia , Chenfei Yuan , Yuhang Wu , Zeyu Zheng

Recommender systems aim to help users find relevant items more quickly by providing personalized recommendations. Explanations in recommender systems help users understand why such recommendations have been generated, which in turn makes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jinfeng Zhong , Elsa Negre

Recent advancements in generative AI have significantly increased interest in personalized agents. With increased personalization, there is also a greater need for being able to trust decision-making and action taking capabilities of these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Chirag Shah , Hideo Joho , Kirandeep Kaur , Preetam Prabhu Srikar Dammu

Explainable recommendation attempts to develop models that generate not only high-quality recommendations but also intuitive explanations. The explanations may either be post-hoc or directly come from an explainable model (also called…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Yongfeng Zhang , Xu Chen

User simulation has been a cost-effective technique for evaluating conversational recommender systems. However, building a human-like simulator is still an open challenge. In this work, we focus on how users reformulate their utterances…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Shuo Zhang , Mu-Chun Wang , Krisztian Balog

Recommender systems are significant to help people deal with the world of information explosion and overload. In this Letter, we develop a general framework named self-consistent refinement and implement it be embedding two representative…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-06-10 Jie Ren , Tao Zhou , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Influenced by the great success of deep learning in computer vision and language understanding, research in recommendation has shifted to inventing new recommender models based on neural networks. In recent years, we have witnessed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Le Wu , Xiangnan He , Xiang Wang , Kun Zhang , Meng Wang

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

With the advent of the information explosion era, the importance of recommendation systems in various applications is increasingly significant. Traditional collaborative filtering algorithms are widely used due to their effectiveness in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Xueting Lin , Zhan Cheng , Longfei Yun , Qingyi Lu , Yuanshuai Luo

Explainable recommendation has attracted much attention from the industry and academic communities. It has shown great potential for improving the recommendation persuasiveness, informativeness and user satisfaction. Despite a lot of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Xu Chen , Jingsen Zhang , Lei Wang , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Ruiming Tang , Rui Zhang , Li Chen , Ji-Rong Wen

Explanations are used in recommender systems for various reasons. Users have to be supported in making (high-quality) decisions more quickly. Developers of recommender systems want to convince users to purchase specific items. Users should…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-25 A. Felfernig , N. Tintarev , T. N. T. Trang , M. Stettinger

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in general natural language processing tasks but often fall short in complex reasoning tasks. Recent studies have explored human-like problem-solving strategies, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Zhenran Xu , Senbao Shi , Baotian Hu , Jindi Yu , Dongfang Li , Min Zhang , Yuxiang Wu

Conversational recommender systems offer the promise of interactive, engaging ways for users to find items they enjoy. We seek to improve conversational recommendation via three dimensions: 1) We aim to mimic a common mode of human…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Shuyang Li , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Julian McAuley

System-provided explanations for recommendations are an important component towards transparent and trustworthy AI. In state-of-the-art research, this is a one-way signal, though, to improve user acceptance. In this paper, we turn the role…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Azin Ghazimatin , Soumajit Pramanik , Rishiraj Saha Roy , Gerhard Weikum

Context: User intent modeling is a crucial process in Natural Language Processing that aims to identify the underlying purpose behind a user's request, enabling personalized responses. With a vast array of approaches introduced in the…

Natural language explanations in recommender systems are often framed as a review generation task, leveraging user reviews as ground-truth supervision. While convenient, this approach conflates a user's opinion with the system's reasoning,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 S. M. F. Sani , Asal Meskin , Mohammad Amanlou , Hamid R. Rabiee

Sensemaking report writing often requires multiple refinements in the iterative process. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promise in generating initial reports based on human visual workspace representations, they struggle to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Xuxin Tang , Rehema Abulikemu , Eric Krokos , Kirsten Whitley , Xuan Wang , Chris North