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Recommender systems objectives can be broadly characterized as modeling user preferences over short-or long-term time horizon. A large body of previous research studied long-term recommendation through dimensionality reduction techniques…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Kiewan Villatel , Elena Smirnova , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

While the classic Prospect Theory has highlighted the reference-dependent and comparative nature of consumers' product evaluation processes, few models have successfully integrated this theoretical hypothesis into data-driven preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Liang Zhang , Guannan Liu , Junjie Wu , Yong Tan

With the advancement of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies, recommender systems have been increasingly used across a vast variety of platforms to efficiently and effectively match users with items. As application…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xuan Bi , Yaqiong Wang , Gediminas Adomavicius , Shawn Curley

Preference learning, or the task of aligning generative models to preference comparison data, has yet to reach the conceptual maturity of classification, density estimation, etc. To close this gap, this work presents a framework to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Lily H. Zhang , Rajesh Ranganath

Deep neural networks (DNN) have shown great capacity of modeling a dynamical system; nevertheless, they usually do not obey physics constraints such as conservation laws. This paper proposes a new learning framework named ConCerNet to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Wang Zhang , Tsui-Wei Weng , Subhro Das , Alexandre Megretski , Luca Daniel , Lam M. Nguyen

Neural collaborative filtering is the state of art field in the recommender systems area; it provides some models that obtain accurate predictions and recommendations. These models are regression-based, and they just return rating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jesús Bobadilla , Abraham Gutiérrez , Santiago Alonso , Ángel González-Prieto

Deep Candidate Generation plays an important role in large-scale recommender systems. It takes user history behaviors as inputs and learns user and item latent embeddings for candidate generation. In the literature, conventional methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ningning Li , Qunwei Li , Xichen Ding , Shaohu Chen , Wenliang Zhong

Forced-choice conjoint designs have become a staple method in the experimentalist's toolkit. However, the forced-choice outcome is neither always consistent with the types of choices individuals make in real political contexts, nor is it…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-17 Thomas S. Robinson , Mats Ahrenshop , Spyros Kosmidis

Preference elicitation is the task of suggesting a highly preferred configuration to a decision maker. The preferences are typically learned by querying the user for choice feedback over pairs or sets of objects. In its constructive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Paolo Dragone , Stefano Teso , Andrea Passerini

Autoencoder-based hybrid recommender systems have become popular recently because of their ability to learn user and item representations by reconstructing various information sources, including users' feedback on items (e.g., ratings) and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ramin Raziperchikolaei , Tianyu Li , Young-joo Chung

Recommendation system has been a widely studied task both in academia and industry. Previous works mainly focus on homogeneous recommendation and little progress has been made for heterogeneous recommender systems. However, heterogeneous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Chengqiang Lu , Mingyang Yin , Shuheng Shen , Luo Ji , Qi Liu , Hongxia Yang

Thanks to information extraction and semantic Web efforts, search on unstructured text is increasingly refined using semantic annotations and structured knowledge bases. However, most users cannot become familiar with the schema of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Uma Sawant , Soumen Chakrabarti

Pairwise preference data have played an important role in the alignment of large language models (LLMs). Each sample of such data consists of a prompt, two different responses to the prompt, and a binary label indicating which of the two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhongze Cai , Xiaocheng Li

We propose a demand estimation approach that leverages unstructured data to infer substitution patterns. Using pre-trained deep learning models, we extract embeddings from product images and textual descriptions and incorporate them into a…

General Economics · Economics 2026-02-19 Giovanni Compiani , Ilya Morozov , Stephan Seiler

Attribute-aware sequential recommendation entails predicting the next item a user will interact with based on a chronologically ordered history of past interactions, enriched with item attributes. Existing methods typically leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Shereen Elsayed , Ngoc Son Le , Ahmed Rashed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

In sentiment analysis (SA) of product reviews, both user and product information are proven to be useful. Current tasks handle user profile and product information in a unified model which may not be able to learn salient features of users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yunfei Long , Mingyu Ma , Qin Lu , Rong Xiang , Chu-Ren Huang

A recent line of work, starting with Beigman and Vohra (2006) and Zadimoghaddam and Roth (2012), has addressed the problem of {\em learning} a utility function from revealed preference data. The goal here is to make use of past data…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-31 Maria-Florina Balcan , Amit Daniely , Ruta Mehta , Ruth Urner , Vijay V. Vazirani

Recent work has shown that collaborative filter-based recommender systems can be improved by incorporating side information, such as natural language reviews, as a way of regularizing the derived product representations. Motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Amjad Almahairi , Kyle Kastner , Kyunghyun Cho , Aaron Courville

Learning distributed node representations in networks has been attracting increasing attention recently due to its effectiveness in a variety of applications. Existing approaches usually study networks with a single type of proximity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-09-21 Meng Qu , Jian Tang , Jingbo Shang , Xiang Ren , Ming Zhang , Jiawei Han