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Recommender systems are crucial for personalizing user experiences but often depend on implicit feedback data, which can be noisy and misleading. Existing denoising studies involve incorporating auxiliary information or learning strategies…

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In real-world scenarios, most platforms collect both large-scale, naturally noisy implicit feedback and small-scale yet highly relevant explicit feedback. Due to the issue of data sparsity, implicit feedback is often the default choice for…

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The ubiquity of implicit feedback makes them the default choice to build online recommender systems. While the large volume of implicit feedback alleviates the data sparsity issue, the downside is that they are not as clean in reflecting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Sequential Recommenders generate recommendations based on users' historical interaction sequences. However, in practice, these collected sequences are often contaminated by noisy interactions, which significantly impairs recommendation…

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Modern recommender systems struggle to effectively utilize the rich, yet high-dimensional and noisy, multi-modal features generated by Large Language Models (LLMs). Treating these features as static inputs decouples them from the core…

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The ubiquity of implicit feedback makes it indispensable for building recommender systems. However, it does not actually reflect the actual satisfaction of users. For example, in E-commerce, a large portion of clicks do not translate to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Wenjie Wang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Learning from implicit feedback is one of the most common cases in the application of recommender systems. Generally speaking, interacted examples are considered as positive while negative examples are sampled from uninteracted ones.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yu Wang , Xin Xin , Zaiqiao Meng , Xiangnan He , Joemon Jose , Fuli Feng

Implicit feedback, often used to build recommender systems, unavoidably confronts noise due to factors such as misclicks and position bias. Previous studies have attempted to alleviate this by identifying noisy samples based on their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Tianrui Song , Wenshuo Chao , Hao Liu

Recommender systems perform well for popular items and users with ample interactions (likes, ratings etc.). This work addresses the difficult and underexplored case of users who have very sparse interactions but post informative review…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ghazaleh Haratinezhad Torbati , Anna Tigunova , Andrew Yates , Gerhard Weikum

While implicit feedback is foundational to modern recommender systems, factors such as human error, uncertainty, and ambiguity in user behavior inevitably introduce significant noise into this feedback, adversely affecting the accuracy and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Kaike Zhang , Qi Cao , Yunfan Wu , Fei Sun , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

The ubiquity of implicit feedback makes them the default choice to build modern recommender systems. Generally speaking, observed interactions are considered as positive samples, while unobserved interactions are considered as negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Yunjun Gao , Yuntao Du , Yujia Hu , Lu Chen , Xinjun Zhu , Ziquan Fang , Baihua Zheng

The acquisition of explicit user feedback (e.g., ratings) in real-world recommender systems is often hindered by the need for active user involvement. To mitigate this issue, implicit feedback (e.g., clicks) generated during user browsing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Zongwei Wang , Min Gao , Wentao Li , Junliang Yu , Linxin Guo , Hongzhi Yin

Implicit feedback, such as user clicks, serves as the primary data source for modern recommender systems. However, click interactions inherently contain substantial noise, including accidental clicks, clickbait-induced interactions, and…

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Denoising language models (DLMs) have been proposed as a powerful alternative to traditional language models (LMs) for automatic speech recognition (ASR), motivated by their ability to use bidirectional context and adapt to a specific ASR…

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Implicit feedback, employed in training recommender systems, unavoidably confronts noise due to factors such as misclicks and position bias. Previous studies have attempted to identify noisy samples through their diverged data patterns,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Tianrui Song , Wen-Shuo Chao , Hao Liu

Historical user-item interaction datasets are essential in training modern recommender systems for predicting user preferences. However, the arbitrary user behaviors in most recommendation scenarios lead to a large volume of noisy data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Weilin Lin , Xiangyu Zhao , Yejing Wang , Yuanshao Zhu , Wanyu Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized Recommender Systems (RS) through advanced generative user modeling. However, LLM-based RS (LLM-RS) often inadvertently perpetuates bias present in the training data, leading to severe…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jin Li , Huilin Gu , Shoujin Wang , Qi Zhang , Shui Yu , Chen Wang , Xiwei Xu , Fang Chen

As its availability and generality in online services, implicit feedback is more commonly used in recommender systems. However, implicit feedback usually presents noisy samples in real-world recommendation scenarios (such as misclicks or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Zhuangzhuang He , Yifan Wang , Yonghui Yang , Peijie Sun , Le Wu , Haoyue Bai , Jinqi Gong , Richang Hong , Min Zhang

As large language models (LLMs) advance their capabilities, aligning these models with human preferences has become crucial. Preference optimization, which trains models to distinguish between preferred and non-preferred responses based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Shawn Im , Sharon Li

User simulation is increasingly vital to develop and evaluate recommender systems (RSs). While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer promising avenues to simulate user behavior, they often struggle with the absence of specific task alignment…

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