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Recommender Systems (RSs) are used to provide users with personalized item recommendations and help them overcome the problem of information overload. Currently, recommendation methods based on deep learning are gaining ground over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nikzad Chizari , Niloufar Shoeibi , María N. Moreno-García

Personalized recommendations are popular in these days of Internet driven activities, specifically shopping. Recommendation methods can be grouped into three major categories, content based filtering, collaborative filtering and machine…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Yuhao Mao , Serguei A. Mokhov , Sudhir P. Mudur

Cross-domain recommendation systems face the challenge of integrating fine-grained user and item relationships across various product domains. To address this, we introduce RankGraph, a scalable graph learning framework designed to serve as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Renzhi Wu , Junjie Yang , Li Chen , Hong Li , Li Yu , Hong Yan

Graph-based and sequential methods are two popular recommendation paradigms, each excelling in its domain but lacking the ability to leverage signals from the other. To address this, we propose a novel method that integrates both approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Yuwei Cao , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Yuqing Liu , Chen Wang , Yueqing Liang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Given the convenience of collecting information through online services, recommender systems now consume large scale data and play a more important role in improving user experience. With the recent emergence of Graph Neural Networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Yishi Xu , Yingxue Zhang , Wei Guo , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Mark Coates

Learning path recommendation seeks to provide learners with a structured sequence of learning items (\eg, knowledge concepts or exercises) to optimize their learning efficiency. Despite significant efforts in this area, most existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Xinghe Cheng , Zihan Zhang , Jiapu Wang , Liangda Fang , Chaobo He , Quanlong Guan , Shirui Pan , Weiqi Luo

Continual Graph Learning (CGL) enables models to incrementally learn from streaming graph-structured data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Experience replay is a common solution that reuses a subset of past samples during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qiao Yuan , Sheng-Uei Guan , Pin Ni , Tianlun Luo , Ka Lok Man , Prudence Wong , Victor Chang

Recently, real-world recommendation systems need to deal with millions of candidates. It is extremely challenging to conduct sophisticated end-to-end algorithms on the entire corpus due to the tremendous computation costs. Therefore,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Ruobing Xie , Qi Liu , Shukai Liu , Ziwei Zhang , Peng Cui , Bo Zhang , Leyu Lin

Sequential recommendation has increasingly shifted toward generative recommenders that combine sequential patterns with semantic item information. Yet these methods are often evaluated on a small set of widely used benchmarks, raising a key…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haoyu Han , Li Ma , Hanbing Wang , Bingheng Li , Daochen Zha , Chun How Tan , Huiji Gao , Xin Liu , Stephanie Moyerman , Sanjeev Katariya , Hui Liu , Jiliang Tang

Recommendation systems predominantly utilize two-tower architectures, which evaluate user-item rankings through the inner product of their respective embeddings. However, one key limitation of two-tower models is that they learn a…

Re-ranking systems aim to reorder an initial list of documents to satisfy better the information needs associated with a user-provided query. Modern re-rankers predominantly rely on neural network models, which have proven highly effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco , Christian Giannetti , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over a chronological sequence of interacted items. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods introduce new machinery, such as semantic IDs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingyi Zhang , Junyi Li , Yejing Wang , Wenlin Zhang , Xiaowei Qian , Sheng Zhang , Yue Feng , Yichao Wang , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xianneng Li

Bundle Recommendation (BR) aims at recommending bundled items on online content or e-commerce platform, such as song lists on a music platform or book lists on a reading website. Several graph based models have achieved state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Shixuan Zhu , Qi Shen , Yiming Zhang , Zhenwei Dong , Zhihua Wei

The success of graph embeddings or node representation learning in a variety of downstream tasks, such as node classification, link prediction, and recommendation systems, has led to their popularity in recent years. Representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Saba A. Al-Sayouri , Danai Koutra , Evangelos E. Papalexakis , Sarah S. Lam

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which can naturally integrate node information and topological structure, have been demonstrated to be powerful in learning on graph data. These advantages of GNNs provide great potential to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Qing Li , Yuan He , Eric Zhao , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Recommender systems (RecSys) play a vital role in online platforms, offering users personalized suggestions amidst vast information. Graph contrastive learning aims to learn from high-order collaborative filtering signals with unsupervised…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Weizhi Zhang , Liangwei Yang , Zihe Song , Henry Peng Zou , Ke Xu , Yuanjie Zhu , Philip S. Yu

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates the issue of hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs) by integrating information retrieval techniques. However, in the tourism domain, since the query is usually brief and the content in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Qikai Wei , Mingzhi Yang , Chunlong Han , Jingfu Wei , Minghao Zhang , Feifei Shi , Huansheng Ning

Unfairness is a well-known challenge in Recommender Systems (RSs), often resulting in biased outcomes that disadvantage users or items based on attributes such as gender, race, age, or popularity. Although some approaches have started to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yongsen Zheng , Zongxuan Xie , Guohua Wang , Ziyao Liu , Liang Lin , Kwok-Yan Lam

Recommending the right content in large scale multimedia streaming services is an important and challenging problem that has received much attention in the past decade. A key ingredient for successful recommendations is an effective…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Igor de Oliveira Nunes , Gabriel Matos Cardoso Leite , Daniel Ratton Figueiredo

Multi-behavior recommendation predicts items a user may purchase by analyzing diverse behaviors like viewing, adding to a cart, and purchasing. Existing methods fall into two categories: representation learning and graph ranking.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Geonwoo Ko , Minseo Jeon , Jinhong Jung