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This study investigates the impact of dynamic user profile embedding on personalized context-aware experiences in social networks. A comparative analysis of multilingual and English transformer models was performed on a dataset of over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Pranav Vachharajani

Last year has witnessed the considerable interest of Large Language Models (LLMs) for their potential applications in recommender systems, which may mitigate the persistent issue of data sparsity. Though large efforts have been made for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ziwei Zhao , Fake Lin , Xi Zhu , Zhi Zheng , Tong Xu , Shitian Shen , Xueying Li , Zikai Yin , Enhong Chen

In this paper we develop a novel recommendation model that explicitly incorporates time information. The model relies on an embedding layer and TSL attention-like mechanism with inner products in different vector spaces, that can be thought…

In this work, we present our journey to revolutionize the personalized recommendation engine through end-to-end learning from raw user actions. We encode user's long-term interest in Pinner- Former, a user embedding optimized for long-term…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Jiajing Xu , Andrew Zhai , Charles Rosenberg

Diverse and enriched data sources are essential for commercial ads-recommendation models to accurately assess user interest both before and after engagement with content. While extended user-engagement histories can improve the prediction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Sohini Roychowdhury , Doris Wang , Qian Ge , Joy Mu , Srihari Reddy

Emerging short-video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, and ShareChat present unique challenges for recommender systems, primarily originating from a continuous stream of new content. ShareChat alone receives approximately 2 million…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Srijan Saket , Olivier Jeunen , Md. Danish Kalim

Personalized size and fit recommendations bear crucial significance for any fashion e-commerce platform. Predicting the correct fit drives customer satisfaction and benefits the business by reducing costs incurred due to size-related…

Social recommendation has emerged to leverage social connections among users for predicting users' unknown preferences, which could alleviate the data sparsity issue in collaborative filtering based recommendation. Early approaches relied…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Le Wu , Junwei Li , Peijie Sun , Richang Hong , Yong Ge , Meng Wang

News recommendation is one of the most challenging tasks in recommender systems, mainly due to the ephemeral relevance of news to users. As social media, and particularly microblogging applications like Twitter or Weibo, gains popularity as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yuting Feng , Bogdan Cautis

The recent ground-breaking advances in deep learning networks ( DNNs ) make them attractive for embedded systems. However, it can take a long time for DNNs to make an inference on resource-limited embedded devices. Offloading the…

Performance · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Ben Taylor , Vicent Sanz Marco , Willy Wolff , Yehia Elkhatib , Zheng Wang

User-generated data on social media contain rich information about who we are, what we like and how we make decisions. In this paper, we survey representative work on learning a concise latent user representation (a.k.a. user embedding)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Fatema Hasan , Kevin S. Xu , James R. Foulds , Shimei Pan

Deep learning has revolutionized many industries by enabling models to automatically learn complex patterns from raw data, reducing dependence on manual feature engineering. However, deep learning algorithms are sensitive to input data, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mert Sehri , Zehui Hua , Francisco de Assis Boldt , Patrick Dumond

Over the past 10 years, many recommendation techniques have been based on embedding users and items in latent vector spaces, where the inner product of a (user,item) pair of vectors represents the predicted affinity of the user to the item.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Sonya Liberman , Shaked Bar , Raphael Vannerom , Danny Rosenstein , Ronny Lempel

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 evolution of social media users' behavior over time complicates user-level comparison tasks such as verification, classification, clustering, and ranking. As a result, na\"ive approaches may fail to generalize to new users or even to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Nicholas Andrews , Marcus Bishop

With 1.3 billion users, Instagram (IG) has also become a business tool. IG influencer marketing, expected to generate $33.25 billion in 2022, encourages companies and influencers to create trending content. Various methods have been…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Pier Paolo Tricomi , Marco Chilese , Mauro Conti , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Content feed, a type of product that recommends a sequence of items for users to browse and engage with, has gained tremendous popularity among social media platforms. In this paper, we propose to study the diversity problem in such a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yanhua Huang , Weikun Wang , Lei Zhang , Ruiwen Xu

Instagram is a relatively new form of communication where users can instantly share their current status by taking pictures and tweaking them using filters. It has seen a rapid growth in the number of users as well as uploads since it was…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Lydia Manikonda , Yuheng Hu , Subbarao Kambhampati

Many recommender systems in long-form video streaming reply on batch-trained models and batch-updated features, where user features are updated daily and served statically throughout the day. While efficient, this approach fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Qiang Chen , Venkatesh Ganapati Hegde , Hongfei Li

Recently deep learning based recommendation systems have been actively explored to solve the cold-start problem using a hybrid approach. However, the majority of previous studies proposed a hybrid model where collaborative filtering and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jongpil Lee , Kyungyun Lee , Jiyoung Park , Jangyeon Park , Juhan Nam