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Unlike traditional recommendation tasks, finite user time budgets introduce a critical resource constraint, requiring the recommender system to balance item relevance and evaluation cost. For example, in a mobile shopping interface, users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Sayak Chakrabarty , Souradip Pal

Short-video recommender systems typically optimize ranking models using dense user behavioral signals, such as clicks and watch time. However, these signals are only indirect proxies of user satisfaction and often suffer from noise and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Na Li , Jiaqi Yu , Minzhi Xie , Tiantian He , Xiaoxiao Xu , Zixiu Wang , Lantao Hu , Yongqi Liu , Han Li , Kaiqiao Zhan , Kun Gai

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) could capture dynamic user preferences by modeling historical behaviors ordered in time. Despite effectiveness, focusing only on the \textit{collaborative signals} from behaviors does not fully grasp…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Mingyue Cheng , Hao Zhang , Qi Liu , Fajie Yuan , Zhi Li , Zhenya Huang , Enhong Chen , Jun Zhou , Longfei Li

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

Sequential recommendation is a key area in the field of recommendation systems aiming to model user interest based on historical interaction sequences with irregular intervals. While previous recurrent neural network-based and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Wei Xiao , Huiying Wang , Qifeng Zhou , Qing Wang

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) could acquire dynamic user preferences towards desired items through multi-round interactive dialogue. Previous CRS mainly focuses on the single conversation (subsession) that user quits after a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Yu Ji , Qi Shen , Shixuan Zhu , Hang Yu , Yiming Zhang , Chuan Cui , Zhihua Wei

Personalized storefronts in large e-commerce marketplaces are often assembled from many independent components: static themes per page section ("placement"), retrieval systems to fetch eligible products per placement, and pointwise rankers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Moein Hasani , Hamidreza Shahidi , Trace Levinson , Yuan Zhong , Guanghua Shu , Vinesh Gudla , Tejaswi Tenneti

In this paper, we propose a theoretically founded sequential strategy for training large-scale Recommender Systems (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the form of clicks. The proposed approach consists in minimizing pairwise ranking loss…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Frack Iutzeller , Yury Maximov , Massih-Reza Amini

We study a recommendation system where sellers compete for visibility by strategically offering commissions to a platform that optimally curates a ranked menu of items and their respective prices for each customer. Customers interact…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-10-07 Tushar Shankar Walunj , Veeraruna Kavitha , Jayakrishnan Nair , Priyank Agarwal

In the recommender system of Meituan Waimai, we are dealing with ever-lengthening user behavior sequences, which pose an increasing challenge to modeling user preference effectively. Existing sequential recommendation models often fail to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhichao Feng , Junjiie Xie , Kaiyuan Li , Yu Qin , Pengfei Wang , Qianzhong Li , Bin Yin , Xiang Li , Wei Lin , Shangguang Wang

E-commerce platforms consistently aim to provide personalized recommendations to drive user engagement, enhance overall user experience, and improve business metrics. Most e-commerce platforms contain multiple carousels on their homepage,…

Building a recommendation system that serves billions of users on daily basis is a challenging problem, as the system needs to make astronomical number of predictions per second based on real-time user behaviors with O(1) time complexity.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Xiaoyong Yang , Yadong Zhu , Yi Zhang , Xiaobo Wang , Quan Yuan

Real-world ecommerce recommender systems must deliver relevant items under strict tens-of-milliseconds latency constraints despite challenges such as cold-start products, rapidly shifting user intent, and dynamic context including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Han Chen , Steven Zhu , Yingrui Li

The personalized recommendation is an essential part of modern e-commerce, where user's demands are not only conditioned by their profile but also by their recent browsing behaviors as well as periodical purchases made some time ago. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Jiarui Jin , Xianyu Chen , Weinan Zhang , Junjie Huang , Ziming Feng , Yong Yu

Several researches on recommender systems are based on explicit rating data, but in many real world e-commerce platforms, ratings are not always available, and in those situations, recommender systems have to deal with implicit data such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Armel Jacques Nzekon Nzeko'o , Maurice Tchuente , Matthieu Latapy

The pre-ranking stage plays a pivotal role in large-scale recommender systems but faces an intrinsic trade-off between model expressiveness and computational efficiency. Owing to the massive candidate pool and strict latency constraints,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yutian Xiao , Meng Yuan , Fuzhen Zhuang , Wei Chen , Shukuan Wang , Shanqi Liu , Chao Feng , Wenhui Yu , Xiang Li , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Zhao Zhang

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resourceful sequential patterns embedded in the behavior history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jiarui Qin , Kan Ren , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

In the realm of human mobility, the decision-making process for selecting the next-visit location is intricately influenced by a trade-off between spatial and temporal constraints, which are reflective of individual needs and preferences.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Zhaofan Zhang , Yanan Xiao , Lu Jiang , Dingqi Yang , Minghao Yin , Pengyang Wang

Implicit feedback is widely explored by modern recommender systems. Since the feedback is often sparse and imbalanced, it poses great challenges to the learning of complex interactions among users and items. Metric learning has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Yanchao Tan , Carl Yang , Xiangyu Wei , Yun Ma , Xiaolin Zheng

The changing preferences of users towards items trigger the emergence of session-based recommender systems (SBRSs), which aim to model the dynamic preferences of users for next-item recommendations. However, most of the existing studies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wenzhuo Song , Shoujin Wang , Yan Wang , Shengsheng Wang