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News recommendation for anonymous readers is a useful but challenging task for many news portals, where interactions between readers and articles are limited within a temporary login session. Previous works tend to formulate session-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Shansan Gong , Kenny Q. Zhu

Sequential recommendation systems aim to predict users' next likely interaction based on their history. However, these systems face data sparsity and cold-start problems. Utilizing data from other domains, known as multi-domain methods, is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zuoli Tang , Zhaoxin Huan , Zihao Li , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Hu , Chilin Fu , Jun Zhou , Lixin Zou , Chenliang Li

Latent factor models have been used widely in collaborative filtering based recommender systems. In recent years, deep learning has been successful in solving a wide variety of machine learning problems. Motivated by the success of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-11 Aanchal Mongia , Neha Jhamb , Emilie Chouzenoux , Angshul Majumdar

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Dynamic feature selection (DFS) addresses budget constraints in decision-making by sequentially acquiring features for each instance, making it appealing for resource-limited scenarios. However, existing DFS methods require models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Raquel Fernandez-Peralta , Javier Andreu-Perez

Recent research has explored using Large Language Models for recommendation tasks by transforming user interaction histories and item metadata into text prompts, then having the LLM produce rankings or recommendations. A promising approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Bo Ma , LuYao Liu , Simon Lau , Chandler Yuan , and XueY Cui , Rosie Zhang

Many bipartite networks describe systems where an edge represents a relation between a user and an item. Measuring the similarity between either users or items is the basis of memory-based collaborative filtering, a widely used method to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Giambattista Albora , Lavinia Rossi-Mori , Andrea Zaccaria

Most of the existing recommender systems assume that user's visiting history can be constantly recorded. However, in recent online services, the user identification may be usually unknown and only limited online user behaviors can be used.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

In recommender systems, various latent confounding factors (e.g., user social environment and item public attractiveness) can affect user behavior, item exposure, and feedback in distinct ways. These factors may directly or indirectly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zhirong Huang , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Guixian Zhang

Dynamic recommendation is essential for modern recommender systems to provide real-time predictions based on sequential data. In real-world scenarios, the popularity of items and interests of users change over time. Based on this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Xiaohan Li , Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Zheng Liu , Liang Wang , Philip S. Yu

In recent years, interest in recommender research has shifted from explicit feedback towards implicit feedback data. A diversity of complex models has been proposed for a wide variety of applications. Despite this, learning from implicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Immanuel Bayer , Xiangnan He , Bhargav Kanagal , Steffen Rendle

Top-N recommendation, which aims to learn user ranking-based preference, has long been a fundamental problem in a wide range of applications. Traditional models usually motivate themselves by designing complex or tailored architectures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Mengyue Yang , Quanyu Dai , Zhenhua Dong , Xu Chen , Xiuqiang He , Jun Wang

Training deep neural models in the presence of corrupted supervision is challenging as the corrupted data points may significantly impact the generalization performance. To alleviate this problem, we present an efficient robust algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Boyang Liu , Mengying Sun , Ding Wang , Pang-Ning Tan , Jiayu Zhou

Model-free RL-based recommender systems have recently received increasing research attention due to their capability to handle partial feedback and long-term rewards. However, most existing research has ignored a critical feature in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Tianchi Cai , Shenliao Bao , Jiyan Jiang , Shiji Zhou , Wenpeng Zhang , Lihong Gu , Jinjie Gu , Guannan Zhang

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently gained significant interest for their exceptional potential in recommendation tasks. This stems primarily from their prominent capability in distilling, modeling, and generating comprehensive user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ximing Chen , Pui Ieng Lei , Yijun Sheng , Yanyan Liu , Zhiguo Gong

Recommender models aimed at mining users' behavioral patterns have raised great attention as one of the essential applications in daily life. Recent work on graph neural networks (GNNs) or debiasing methods has attained remarkable gains.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Xinfeng Wang , Fumiyo Fukumoto , Jin Cui , Yoshimi Suzuki , Jiyi Li , Dongjin Yu

Online e-commerce platforms have been extending in-store shopping, which allows users to keep the canonical online browsing and checkout experience while exploring in-store shopping. However, the growing transition between online and…

Machine learning models are often personalized with information that is protected, sensitive, self-reported, or costly to acquire. These models use information about people but do not facilitate nor inform their consent. Individuals cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Hailey Joren , Chirag Nagpal , Katherine Heller , Berk Ustun

Multimodal recommendation exploits the rich multimodal information associated with users or items to enhance the representation learning for better performance. In these methods, end-to-end feature extractors (e.g., shallow/deep neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Fan Liu , Huilin Chen , Zhiyong Cheng , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

State-of-the-art recommendation algorithms -- especially the collaborative filtering (CF) based approaches with shallow or deep models -- usually work with various unstructured information sources for recommendation, such as textual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Yongfeng Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Xu Chen , Pengfei Wang