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Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) illuminate user preferences via multi-round interactive dialogues, ultimately navigating towards precise and satisfactory recommendations. However, contemporary CRS are limited to inquiring binary or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Wei Fan , Weijia Zhang , Weiqi Wang , Yangqiu Song , Hao Liu

In Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS), the central question is how the conversational agent can naturally ask for user preferences and provide suitable recommendations. Existing works mainly follow the hierarchical architecture,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xian Li , Hongguang Shi , Yunfei Wang , Yeqin Zhang , Xubin Li , Cam-Tu Nguyen

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have revolutionized the conventional recommendation paradigm by embracing dialogue agents to dynamically capture the fine-grained user preference. In a typical conversational recommendation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Xuhui Ren , Hongzhi Yin , Tong Chen , Hao Wang , Zi Huang , Kai Zheng

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Haibo Sun , Naoki Otani , Hannah Kim , Dan Zhang , Nikita Bhutani

Modern recommendation systems typically follow two complementary paradigms: collaborative filtering, which models long-term user preferences from historical interactions, and conversational recommendation systems (CRS), which interact with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Vinaik Chhetri , Yousaf Reza , Moghis Fereidouni , Srijata Maji , Umar Farooq , AB Siddique

Conversational recommendation system (CRS) is emerging as a user-friendly way to capture users' dynamic preferences over candidate items and attributes. Multi-shot CRS is designed to make recommendations multiple times until the user either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Yinan Zhang , Boyang Li , Yong Liu , You Yuan , Chunyan Miao

Recommender systems are embracing conversational technologies to obtain user preferences dynamically, and to overcome inherent limitations of their static models. A successful Conversational Recommender System (CRS) requires proper handling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Wenqiang Lei , Xiangnan He , Yisong Miao , Qingyun Wu , Richang Hong , Min-Yen Kan , Tat-Seng Chua

Explanations in conventional recommender systems have demonstrated benefits in helping the user understand the rationality of the recommendations and improving the system's efficiency, transparency, and trustworthiness. In the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Shuyu Guo , Shuo Zhang , Weiwei Sun , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) generate recommendations through an interactive process. However, not all CRS approaches use human conversations as their source of interaction data; the majority of prior CRS work simulates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Chuang Li , Hengchang Hu , Yan Zhang , Min-Yen Kan , Haizhou Li

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) aim to provide personalized recommendations through multi-turn natural language interactions with users. Given the strong interaction and reasoning skills of Large Language Models (LLMs), leveraging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Xiaoyan Zhao , Ming Yan , Yang Zhang , Yang Deng , Jian Wang , Fengbin Zhu , Yilun Qiu , Hong Cheng , Tat-Seng Chua

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) imitate human advisors to assist users in finding items through conversations and have recently gained increasing attention in domains such as media and e-commerce. Like in human communication,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Wanling Cai , Yucheng Jin , Li Chen

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) explicitly solicit users' preferences for improved recommendations on the fly. Most existing CRS solutions count on a single policy trained by reinforcement learning for a population of users.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Zhendong Chu , Hongning Wang , Yun Xiao , Bo Long , Lingfei Wu

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide personalized recommendations via interactive dialogues with users. While large language models (LLMs) enhance CRS with their superior understanding of context-aware user preferences,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Yaochen Zhu , Chao Wan , Harald Steck , Dawen Liang , Yesu Feng , Nathan Kallus , Jundong Li

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

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

With the aid of large language models, current conversational recommender system (CRS) has gaining strong abilities to persuade users to accept recommended items. While these CRSs are highly persuasive, they can mislead users by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Peixin Qin , Chen Huang , Yang Deng , Wenqiang Lei , Tat-Seng Chua

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

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm for offering personalized recommendations through natural language dialogue. However, they face challenges with knowledge sparsity, as users often provide…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhangchi Qiu , Linhao Luo , Zicheng Zhao , Shirui Pan , Alan Wee-Chung Liew

Conversational recommendation systems (CRSs) use multi-turn interaction to capture user preferences and provide personalized recommendations. A fundamental challenge in CRSs lies in effectively understanding user preferences from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Xiaolei Wang , Chunxuan Xia , Junyi Li , Fanzhe Meng , Lei Huang , Jinpeng Wang , Wayne Xin Zhao , Ji-Rong Wen

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) are receiving growing research attention across domains, yet their user experience (UX) evaluation remains limited. Existing reviews largely overlook empirical UX studies, particularly in adaptive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Raj Mahmud , Yufeng Wu , Abdullah Bin Sawad , Shlomo Berkovsky , Mukesh Prasad , A. Baki Kocaballi