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Multimodal recommender systems improve the performance of canonical recommender systems with no item features by utilizing diverse content types such as text, images, and videos, while alleviating inherent sparsity of user-item interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yu-Seung Roh , Joo-Young Kim , Jin-Duk Park , Won-Yong Shin

The chronological order of user-item interactions can reveal time-evolving and sequential user behaviors in many recommender systems. The items that users will interact with may depend on the items accessed in the past. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Chen Ma , Liheng Ma , Yingxue Zhang , Jianing Sun , Xue Liu , Mark Coates

Sequential recommendation (SR) systems excel at capturing users' dynamic preferences by leveraging their interaction histories. Most existing SR systems assign a single embedding vector to each item to represent its features, and various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

Traditional Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRMs) face increasing bottlenecks in performance and efficiency, often struggling with generalization and long-sequence modeling. Inspired by the scaling success of Large Language Models…

Over the past few decades, machine learning has been widely used to learn complex tasks. Reinforcement Learning (RL), inspired by human behavior, is a great example, as it involves developing specific behaviours for specific tasks. To…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Quentin Vacher , Nicolas Beuve , Mickaël Dardaillon , Karol Desnos

Recent years have witnessed the explosive growth of interaction behaviors in multimedia information systems, where multi-behavior recommender systems have received increasing attention by leveraging data from various auxiliary behaviors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Xiao Luo , Daqing Wu , Yiyang Gu , Chong Chen , Luchen Liu , Jinwen Ma , Ming Zhang , Minghua Deng , Jianqiang Huang , Xian-Sheng Hua

Since Multimodal Emotion Recognition in Conversation (MERC) can be applied to public opinion monitoring, intelligent dialogue robots, and other fields, it has received extensive research attention in recent years. Unlike traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Tao Meng , Fuchen Zhang , Yuntao Shou , Hongen Shao , Wei Ai , Keqin Li

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been attracting increasing attention of researchers for its ability to alleviate the data sparsity problem in recommender systems. However, the existing single-target or dual-target CDR methods often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Xiaoyun Zhao , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

In the contemporary age characterized by information abundance, rapid advancements in artificial intelligence have rendered recommendation systems indispensable. Conventional recommendation methodologies based on collaborative filtering or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yu Fang

Modern recommender systems face critical challenges in handling information overload while addressing the inherent limitations of multimodal representation learning. Existing methods suffer from three fundamental limitations: (1) restricted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Zheyu Chen , Jinfeng Xu , Hewei Wang , Shuo Yang , Zitong Wan , Haibo Hu

Sample efficiency has been a key issue in reinforcement learning (RL). An efficient agent must be able to leverage its prior experiences to quickly adapt to similar, but new tasks and situations. Meta-RL is one attempt at formalizing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Seyed Roozbeh Razavi Rohani , Saeed Hedayatian , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Social recommendation task aims to predict users' preferences over items with the incorporation of social connections among users, so as to alleviate the sparse issue of collaborative filtering. While many recent efforts show the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Chao Huang , Huance Xu , Yong Xu , Peng Dai , Lianghao Xia , Mengyin Lu , Liefeng Bo , Hao Xing , Xiaoping Lai , Yanfang Ye

This paper designs and implements an explainable recommendation model that integrates knowledge graphs with structure-aware attention mechanisms. The model is built on graph neural networks and incorporates a multi-hop neighbor aggregation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shuangquan Lyu , Ming Wang , Huajun Zhang , Jiasen Zheng , Junjiang Lin , Xiaoxuan Sun

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has demonstrated to be an effective solution for alleviating the user cold-start issue. By leveraging rich user-item interactions available in a richly informative source domain, CDR could improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiaodong Li , Jiawei Sheng , Jiangxia Cao , Xinghua Zhang , Wenyuan Zhang , Yong Sun , Shirui Pan , Zhihong Tian , Tingwen Liu

Learning vectorized embeddings is fundamental to many recommender systems for user-item matching. To enable efficient online inference, representation binarization, which embeds latent features into compact binary sequences, has recently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yankai Chen , Yue Que , Xinni Zhang , Chen Ma , Irwin King

Reward modeling is a key step in building safe foundation models when applying reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align Large Language Models (LLMs). However, reward modeling based on the Bradley-Terry (BT) model assumes a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jingyan Shen , Jiarui Yao , Rui Yang , Yifan Sun , Feng Luo , Rui Pan , Tong Zhang , Han Zhao

The goal of few-shot learning is to generalize and achieve high performance on new unseen learning tasks, where each task has only a limited number of examples available. Gradient-based meta-learning attempts to address this challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Advanced recommender systems usually involve multiple domains (such as scenarios or categories) for various marketing strategies, and users interact with them to satisfy diverse demands. The goal of multi-domain recommendation (MDR) is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zixuan Xu , Penghui Wei , Shaoguo Liu , Weimin Zhang , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

Traditional recommendation methods, which typically focus on modeling a single user behavior (e.g., purchase), often face severe data sparsity issues. Multi-behavior recommendation methods offer a promising solution by leveraging user data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Mingshi Yan , Zhiyong Cheng , Yahong Han , Meng Wang

With the rapid growth of AI-generated content (AIGC) across domains such as music, video, and literature, the demand for emotionally aware recommendation systems has become increasingly important. Traditional recommender systems primarily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zheqi Hu , Xuanjing Chen , Jinlin Hu