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Sequential Recommendation Systems (SRS) have become essential in many real-world applications. However, existing SRS methods often rely on collaborative filtering signals and fail to capture real-time user preferences, while Conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yifan Wang , Shen Gao , Jiabao Fang , Rui Yan , Billy Chiu , Shuo Shang

User-centric evaluation has become a key paradigm for assessing Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS), aiming to capture subjective qualities such as satisfaction, trust, and rapport. To enable scalable evaluation, recent work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Michael Müller , Amir Reza Mohammadi , Andreas Peintner , Beatriz Barroso Gstrein , Günther Specht , Eva Zangerle

Conversational recommenders are emerging as a powerful tool to personalize a user's recommendation experience. Through a back-and-forth dialogue, users can quickly hone in on just the right items. Many approaches to conversational…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Allen Lin , Ziwei Zhu , Jianling Wang , James Caverlee

Recommender systems (RSs) have emerged as very useful tools to help customers with their decision-making process, find items of their interest, and alleviate the information overload problem. There are two different lines of approaches in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Shahpar Yakhchi

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction on cold users is a challenging task in recommender systems. Recent researches have resorted to meta-learning to tackle the cold-user challenge, which either perform few-shot user representation learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yanyan Shen , Lifan Zhao , Weiyu Cheng , Zibin Zhang , Wenwen Zhou , Kangyi Lin

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have attracted growing attention for their ability to deliver personalized recommendations through natural language interactions. To more accurately infer user preferences from multi-turn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Wei Yuan , Shutong Qiao , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Generative large language models(LLMs) are proficient in solving general problems but often struggle to handle domain-specific tasks. This is because most of domain-specific tasks, such as personalized recommendation, rely on task-related…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Wenxuan Zhang , Hongzhi Liu , Yingpeng Du , Chen Zhu , Yang Song , Hengshu Zhu , Zhonghai Wu

Deep learning-based recommender systems may lead to over-fitting when lacking training interaction data. This over-fitting significantly degrades recommendation performances. To address this data sparsity problem, cross-domain recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Zhi Li , Daichi Amagata , Yihong Zhang , Takahiro Hara , Shuichiro Haruta , Kei Yonekawa , Mori Kurokawa

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to en-hance recommendation quality by transferring knowledge across domains, offering effective solutions to data sparsity and cold-start issues. However, existing methods face three major…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xingzi Wang , Qingtian Bian , Hui Fang

Knowledge-based recommendation models effectively alleviate the data sparsity issue leveraging the side information in the knowledge graph, and have achieved considerable performance. Nevertheless, the knowledge graphs used in previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Min Zhang , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated great potential in Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS). However, the application of LLMs to CRS has exposed a notable discrepancy in behavior between LLM-based CRS and human recommenders:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Dayu Yang , Fumian Chen , Hui Fang

Conversational recommender system (CRS) interacts with users through multi-turn dialogues in natural language, which aims to provide high-quality recommendations for user's instant information need. Although great efforts have been made to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chenzhan Shang , Yupeng Hou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Yaliang Li , Jing Zhang

Recent years have seen a surge of research into conversational recommender systems (CRS). Among existing datasets, ReDial is the most widely used benchmark, cited in hundreds of studies. However, variations in how the dataset is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog

Recommender Systems (RS) play an integral role in enhancing user experiences by providing personalized item suggestions. This survey reviews the progress in RS inclusively from 2017 to 2024, effectively connecting theoretical advances with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Shaina Raza , Mizanur Rahman , Safiullah Kamawal , Armin Toroghi , Ananya Raval , Farshad Navah , Amirmohammad Kazemeini

Building systems that can communicate with humans is a core problem in Artificial Intelligence. This work proposes a novel neural network architecture for response selection in an end-to-end multi-turn conversational dialogue setting. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Debanjan Chaudhuri , Agustinus Kristiadi , Jens Lehmann , Asja Fischer

Following recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), LLM-based chatbots have transformed customer support by automating interactions and providing consistent, scalable service. While LLM-based conversational recommender systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Omri Haller , Yair Meidan , Dudu Mimran , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Clarifying user needs is essential for existing task-oriented dialogue systems. However, in real-world applications, developers can never guarantee that all possible user demands are taken into account in the design phase. Consequently,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Weikang Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Qian Li , Mei-Yuh Hwang , Chengqing Zong , Zhifei Li

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) are a popular type of recommender system that learns from a user's history to predict the next item they are likely to interact with. However, user interactions can be affected by noise stemming from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Andrea Bacciu , Federico Siciliano , Nicola Tonellotto , Fabrizio Silvestri

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to understand the information needs and preferences expressed in a dialogue to recommend suitable items to the user. Most of the existing conversational recommendation datasets are synthesized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yuanxing Liu , Weinan Zhang , Baohua Dong , Yan Fan , Hang Wang , Fan Feng , Yifan Chen , Ziyu Zhuang , Hengbin Cui , Yongbin Li , Wanxiang Che

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to predict future interactions based on user's historical sequential interactions from multiple domains. Generally, a key challenge of CDSR is how to mine precise cross-domain user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jiangxia Cao , Xin Cong , Jiawei Sheng , Tingwen Liu , Bin Wang