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AI-driven recommender systems are often perceived as personalization black boxes, limiting users' ability to understand how their data shapes content (information asymmetry) or to influence system behavior meaningfully (power asymmetry).…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mengke Wu , Weizi Liu , Yanyun Wang , Weiyu Ding , Mike Yao

To offer accurate and diverse recommendation services, recent methods use auxiliary information to foster the learning process of user and item representations. Many SOTA methods fuse different sources of information (user, item, knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Haolun Wu , Yingxue Zhang , Chen Ma , Wei Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xue Liu , Mark Coates

In the one-class recommendation problem, it's required to make recommendations basing on users' implicit feedback, which is inferred from their action and inaction. Existing works obtain representations of users and items by encoding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Chu-Jen Shao , Hao-Ming Fu , Pu-Jen Cheng

In recommender systems (RSs), predicting the next item that a user interacts with is critical for user retention. While the last decade has seen an explosion of RSs aimed at identifying relevant items that match user preferences, there is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Zekarias T. Kefato , Sarunas Girdzijauskas , Nasrullah Sheikh , Alberto Montresor

Using results from neurobiology on perceptual decision making and value-based decision making, the problem of decision making between lotteries is reformulated in an abstract space where uncertain prospects are mapped to corresponding…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-03 Adnan Rebei

Recommender systems are an important part of the modern human experience whose influence ranges from the food we eat to the news we read. Yet, there is still debate as to what extent recommendation platforms are aligned with the user goals.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Arpit Agarwal , Nicolas Usunier , Alessandro Lazaric , Maximilian Nickel

Recommender systems aim to provide personalized item recommendations by capturing user behaviors derived from their interaction history. Considering that user interactions naturally occur sequentially based on users' intents in mind, user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Yijin Choi , Chiehyeon Lim

Prompting is central to interaction with AI systems, yet many users struggle to explore alternative directions, articulate creative intent, or understand how variations in prompts shape model outputs. We introduce prompt recommender systems…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Jason Kim , Maria Teleki , James Caverlee

Recommender systems are critical tools to match listings and travelers in two-sided vacation rental marketplaces. Such systems require high capacity to extract user preferences for items from implicit signals at scale. To learn those…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Pavlos Mitsoulis-Ntompos , Meisam Hejazinia , Serena Zhang , Travis Brady

Recommendation systems are widespread, and through customized recommendations, promise to match users with options they will like. To that end, data on engagement is collected and used. Most recommendation systems are ranking-based, where…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Omar Besbes , Yash Kanoria , Akshit Kumar

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

This paper presents a deployed, production-grade system designed to enhance and scale search query datasets for intent-based recommendation systems in digital banking. In real-world environments, the growing volume and complexity of user…

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Recommendation systems are ubiquitous and impact many domains; they have the potential to influence product consumption, individuals' perceptions of the world, and life-altering decisions. These systems are often evaluated or trained with…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Allison J. B. Chaney , Brandon M. Stewart , Barbara E. Engelhardt

Interactive recommendation that models the explicit interactions between users and the recommender system has attracted a lot of research attentions in recent years. Most previous interactive recommendation systems only focus on optimizing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Yong Liu , Yinan Zhang , Qiong Wu , Chunyan Miao , Lizhen Cui , Binqiang Zhao , Yin Zhao , Lu Guan

Efficient learning of user preferences is crucial for many modern decision making systems but typically requires costly labeled data. Active learning reduces this cost, yet standard methods are computationally expensive due to pool-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Namrata Nadagouda , Nauman Ahad , Maegan Tucker , Mark A. Davenport

This paper studies recommender systems with knowledge graphs, which can effectively address the problems of data sparsity and cold start. Recently, a variety of methods have been developed for this problem, which generally try to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Weiping Song , Zhijian Duan , Ziqing Yang , Hao Zhu , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

We present an interface that can be leveraged to quickly and effortlessly elicit people's preferences for visual stimuli, such as photographs, visual art and screensavers, along with rich side-information about its users. We plan to employ…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Pantelis P. Analytis , Tobias Schnabel , Stefan Herzog , Daniel Barkoczi , Thorsten Joachims

The study of adverse childhood experiences and their consequences has emerged over the past 20 years. In this study, we aimed to leverage explainable artificial intelligence, and propose a proof-of-concept prototype for a knowledge-driven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Nariman Ammar , Arash Shaban-Nejad

Multi-objective recommender systems (MORS) provide suggestions to users according to multiple (and possibly conflicting) goals. When a system optimizes its results at the individual-user level, it tailors them on a user's propensity towards…

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