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Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is one of the fundamental tasks in the industry, especially in e-commerce, social media, and streaming media. It directly impacts website revenues, user satisfaction, and user retention. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhiming Yang , Haining Gao , Dehong Gao , Luwei Yang , Libin Yang , Xiaoyan Cai , Wei Ning , Guannan Zhang

In e-commerce, Trigger-Induced Recommendation (TIR), recommending items after a user clicks a trigger, is an important task. However, modern platforms rely on a continuous stream of diverse and short-lived promotional scenarios (e.g., for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Chen Gao , Zixin Zhao , Lv Shao , Tong Liu

With the advancement of multimedia internet, the impact of visual characteristics on the decision of users to click or not within the online retail industry is increasingly significant. Thus, incorporating visual features is a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Jia-Qi Yang , Chenglei Dai , Dan OU , Dongshuai Li , Ju Huang , De-Chuan Zhan , Xiaoyi Zeng , Yang Yang

Multimedia recommendation aims to fuse the multi-modal information of items for feature enrichment to improve the recommendation performance. However, existing methods typically introduce multi-modal information based on collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Haokai Ma , Zhuang Qi , Xinxin Dong , Xiangxian Li , Yuze Zheng , Xiangxu Mengand Lei Meng

Large language models (LLMs), endowed with exceptional reasoning capabilities, are adept at discerning profound user interests from historical behaviors, thereby presenting a promising avenue for the advancement of recommendation systems.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Guanghan Li , Xun Zhang , Yufei Zhang , Yifan Yin , Guojun Yin , Wei Lin

Sequential recommendation (SR) models often capture user preferences based on the historically interacted item IDs, which usually obtain sub-optimal performance when the interaction history is limited. Content-based sequential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Donglin Zhou , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

The cold-start recommendation is an urgent problem in contemporary online applications. It aims to provide users whose behaviors are literally sparse with as accurate recommendations as possible. Many data-driven algorithms, such as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang , Jian Yu , Changsheng Xu

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is crucial for improving recommendation accuracy and generalization, yet traditional methods are often hindered by the reliance on shared user/item IDs, which are unavailable in most real-world scenarios.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Peiyu Hu , Wayne Lu , Jia Wang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction plays a core role in recommender systems, serving as the final-stage filter to rank items for a user. The key to addressing the CTR task is learning feature interactions that are useful for prediction,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Yang Zhang , Tianhao Shi , Fuli Feng , Wenjie Wang , Dingxian Wang , Xiangnan He , Yongdong Zhang

Sequential recommendation methods are increasingly important in cutting-edge recommender systems. Through leveraging historical records, the systems can capture user interests and perform recommendations accordingly. State-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Chong Liu , Xiaoyang Liu , Rongqin Zheng , Lixin Zhang , Xiaobo Liang , Juntao Li , Lijun Wu , Min Zhang , Leyu Lin

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

Multi-modal sequential recommendation systems leverage auxiliary signals (e.g., text, images) to alleviate data sparsity in user-item interactions. While recent methods exploit large language models to encode modalities into discrete…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Kaiyuan Li , Rui Xiang , Yong Bai , Yongxiang Tang , Yanhua Cheng , Xialong Liu , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which aims to predict the probability of a user clicking on an ad or an item, is critical to many online applications such as online advertising and recommender systems. The problem is very challenging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Weiping Song , Chence Shi , Zhiping Xiao , Zhijian Duan , Yewen Xu , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction models are integral to a myriad of industrial settings, such as personalized search advertising. Current methods typically involve feature extraction from users' historical behavior sequences combined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lingwei Kong , Lu Wang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law , Jingping Shao

Implicit feedback, such as user clicks, serves as the primary data source for modern recommender systems. However, click interactions inherently contain substantial noise, including accidental clicks, clickbait-induced interactions, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xikai Yang , Yang Wang , Yilin Li , Sebastian Sun

The goal of sequential recommendation (SR) is to predict a user's potential interested items based on her/his historical interaction sequences. Most existing sequential recommenders are developed based on ID features, which, despite their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jinpeng Wang , Ziyun Zeng , Yunxiao Wang , Yuting Wang , Xingyu Lu , Tianxiang Li , Jun Yuan , Rui Zhang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Shu-Tao Xia

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is one of the most important machine learning tasks in recommender systems, driving personalized experience for billions of consumers. Neural architecture search (NAS), as an emerging field, has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Qingquan Song , Dehua Cheng , Hanning Zhou , Jiyan Yang , Yuandong Tian , Xia Hu

Most recommender systems adopt collaborative filtering (CF) and provide recommendations based on past collective interactions. Therefore, the performance of CF algorithms degrades when few or no interactions are available, a scenario…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Christian Ganhör , Marta Moscati , Anna Hausberger , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

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