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Conversational recommender system (CRS), which combines the techniques of dialogue system and recommender system, has obtained increasing interest recently. In contrast to traditional recommender system, it learns the user preference better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yunwen Xia , Hui Fang , Jie Zhang , Chong Long

Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in recommendation systems. However, the effective application of MLLMs to multimodal sequential recommendation remains unexplored: A)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Haoyu Wang , Yitong Wang , Jining Wang

Recommendation systems focus on helping users find items of interest in the situations of information overload, where users' preferences are typically estimated by the past observed behaviors. In contrast, conversational recommendation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Ting-Chun Wang , Shang-Yu Su , Yun-Nung Chen

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) engage users in interactive dialogues to gather preferences and provide personalized recommendations. While existing studies have advanced conversational strategies, they often rely on predefined…

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Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to predict future user-item interactions based on historical interactions. While many SR approaches concentrate on user IDs and item IDs, the human perception of the world through multi-modal signals,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Yuanqi He , Junchen Fu , Xiangyan Liu , Qi Guo

Traditional recommendation systems estimate user preference on items from past interaction history, thus suffering from the limitations of obtaining fine-grained and dynamic user preference. Conversational recommendation system (CRS) brings…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-02 Wenqiang Lei , Gangyi Zhang , Xiangnan He , Yisong Miao , Xiang Wang , Liang Chen , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) utilize natural language interactions and dialogue history to infer user preferences and provide accurate recommendations. Due to the limited conversation context and background knowledge, existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Zhangchi Qiu , Ye Tao , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation models are difficult to answer two important questions well due…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Chongming Gao , Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Maarten de Rijke , Tat-Seng Chua

Traditional recommender systems estimate user preference on items purely based on historical interaction records, thus failing to capture fine-grained yet dynamic user interests and letting users receive recommendation only passively.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Xuhui Ren , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Lizhen Cui , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to predict users' next interaction based on their historical behaviors, while still facing the challenge of data sparsity. With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyao Huang , Qidong Liu , Wenxuan Yang , Moranxin Wang , Yuqi Sun , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

In recent years, the emerging topics of recommender systems that take advantage of natural language processing techniques have attracted much attention, and one of their applications is the Conversational Recommender System (CRS). Unlike…

Multimodal recommendation combines the user historical behaviors with the modal features of items to capture the tangible user preferences, presenting superior performance compared to the conventional ID-based recommender systems. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yuzhuo Dang , Xin Zhang , Zhiqiang Pan , Yuxiao Duan , Wanyu Chen , Fei Cai , Honghui Chen

The recommender system (RS) has been an integral toolkit of online services. They are equipped with various deep learning techniques to model user preference based on identifier and attribute information. With the emergence of multimedia…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Qidong Liu , Jiaxi Hu , Yutian Xiao , Xiangyu Zhao , Jingtong Gao , Wanyu Wang , Qing Li , Jiliang Tang

Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction paradigm, where the users' preferences are estimated based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Dietmar Jannach , Ahtsham Manzoor , Wanling Cai , Li Chen

In conversational recommender systems (CRSs), conversations usually involve a set of items and item-related entities or attributes, e.g., director is a related entity of a movie. These items and item-related entities are often mentioned…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jie Zou , Aixin Sun , Cheng Long , Evangelos Kanoulas

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs)aim to engage users in dialogue to provide tailored recommendations. While traditional CRSs focus on eliciting preferences and retrieving items, real-world e-commerce interactions involve more…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Tongyoung Kim , Jeongeun Lee , Soojin Yoon , Sunghwan Kim , Dongha Lee

A Conversational Recommender System (CRS) offers increased transparency and control to users by enabling them to engage with the system through a real-time multi-turn dialogue. Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited an…

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) could capture dynamic user preferences by modeling historical behaviors ordered in time. Despite effectiveness, focusing only on the \textit{collaborative signals} from behaviors does not fully grasp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Fajie Yuan , Zhi Li , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Li

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to recommend high-quality items to users through a dialogue interface. It usually contains multiple sub-tasks, such as user preference elicitation, recommendation, explanation, and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yue Feng , Shuchang Liu , Zhenghai Xue , Qingpeng Cai , Lantao Hu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Fei Sun