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The dominant retrieve-then-rank pipeline in large-scale recommender systems suffers from mis-calibration and engineering overhead due to its architectural split and differing optimization objectives. While recent generative sequence models…

Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical interactions. Existing methods rely on either explicit item IDs or general textual features for sequence modeling to understand user preferences. While promising,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Jiacheng Li , Ming Wang , Jin Li , Jinmiao Fu , Xin Shen , Jingbo Shang , Julian McAuley

Transformers have become widely used in various tasks, such as natural language processing and machine vision. This paper proposes Gransformer, an algorithm based on Transformer for generating graphs. We modify the Transformer encoder to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ahmad Khajenezhad , Seyed Ali Osia , Mahmood Karimian , Hamid Beigy

Recommender systems (RSs) have become an inseparable part of our everyday lives. They help us find our favorite items to purchase, our friends on social networks, and our favorite movies to watch. Traditionally, the recommendation problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-09 M. Mehdi Afsar , Trafford Crump , Behrouz Far

Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as a promising graph learning tool, leveraging their all-pair connected property to effectively capture global information. To address the over-smoothing problem in deep GNNs, global attention was…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Chaohao Yuan , Zhenjie Song , Ercan Engin Kuruoglu , Kangfei Zhao , Yang Liu , Deli Zhao , Hong Cheng , Yu Rong

Transformers have achieved great success in effectively processing sequential data such as text. Their architecture consisting of several attention and feedforward blocks can model relations between elements of a sequence in parallel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jaemu Heo , Eldor Fozilov , Hyunmin Song , Taehwan Kim

Learning representations on large-sized graphs is a long-standing challenge due to the inter-dependence nature involved in massive data points. Transformers, as an emerging class of foundation encoders for graph-structured data, have shown…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Qitian Wu , Wentao Zhao , Chenxiao Yang , Hengrui Zhang , Fan Nie , Haitian Jiang , Yatao Bian , Junchi Yan

Reranking is a critical component in recommender systems, playing an essential role in refining the output of recommendation algorithms. Traditional reranking models have focused predominantly on accuracy, but modern applications demand…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jingtong Gao , Bo Chen , Weiwen Liu , Xiangyang Li , Yichao Wang , Wanyu Wang , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiangyu Zhao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been shown as promising solutions for collaborative filtering (CF) with the modeling of user-item interaction graphs. The key idea of existing GNN-based recommender systems is to recursively perform the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang , Chuxu Zhang

Product search has been a crucial entry point to serve people shopping online. Most existing personalized product models follow the paradigm of representing and matching user intents and items in the semantic space, where finer-grained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Keping Bi , Qingyao Ai , W. Bruce Croft

In recommender systems, large language models (LLMs) have gained popularity for generating descriptive summarization to improve recommendation robustness, along with Graph Convolution Networks. However, existing LLM-enhanced recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Moonsoo Park , Seulbeen Je , Donghyeon Park

Recommender systems are designed to predict user preferences over collections of items. These systems process users' previous interactions to decide which items should be ranked higher to satisfy their desires. An ensemble recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Alireza Gharahighehi , Celine Vens , Konstantinos Pliakos

Modeling user preferences has been mainly addressed by looking at users' interaction history with the different elements available in the system. Tailoring content to individual preferences based on historical data is the main goal of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Pablo Zivic , Hernan Vazquez , Jorge Sanchez

Autonomous surveillance missions in Internet of Things (IoT) networks often involve solving NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems to ensure efficient resource utilization. To address the limitations of conventional heuristics in…

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In this paper, we propose an approach to analyze the performance and the added value of automatic recommender systems in an industrial context. We show that recommender systems are multifaceted and can be organized around 4 structuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Frank Meyer , Françoise Fessant , Fabrice Clérot , Eric Gaussier

Recently, Transformer model, which has achieved great success in many artificial intelligence fields, has demonstrated its great potential in modeling graph-structured data. Till now, a great variety of Transformers has been proposed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Erxue Min , Runfa Chen , Yatao Bian , Tingyang Xu , Kangfei Zhao , Wenbing Huang , Peilin Zhao , Junzhou Huang , Sophia Ananiadou , Yu Rong

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

The problem of relevance ranking consists of sorting a set of objects with respect to a given criterion. Since users may prefer different relevance criteria, the ranking algorithms should be adaptable to the user needs. Two main approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Leonardo Rigutini , Tiziano Papini , Marco Maggini , Franco Scarselli

A recommender system generates personalized recommendations for a user by computing the preference score of items, sorting the items according to the score, and filtering top-K items with high scores. While sorting and ranking items are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Hyunsung Lee , Yeongjae Jang , Jaekwang Kim , Honguk Woo

Recommender system is one of the most important information services on today's Internet. Recently, graph neural networks have become the new state-of-the-art approach to recommender systems. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Nian Li , Yinfeng Li , Yingrong Qin , Jinghua Piao , Yuhan Quan , Jianxin Chang , Depeng Jin , Xiangnan He , Yong Li