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Textual reviews enrich recommender systems with fine-grained preference signals and enhanced explainability. However, in real-world scenarios, users rarely leave reviews, resulting in severe sparsity that undermines the effectiveness of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Leyao Wang , Xutao Mao , Xuhui Zhan , Yuying Zhao , Bo Ni , Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed , Tyler Derr

Reranking is attracting incremental attention in the recommender systems, which rearranges the input ranking list into the final rank-ing list to better meet user demands. Most existing methods greedily rerank candidates through the rating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yufei Feng , Binbin Hu , Yu Gong , Fei Sun , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

Personalized generation with frozen large language models requires a conditioning signal that is both compact and current. Existing personalization methods typically retrieve or summarize user histories in text, or compress them into static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Jinze Li , Xiaoyan Yang , Shuo Yang , Jinfeng Xu , Yue Shen , Jian Wang , Jinjie Gu , Edith Cheuk-Han Ngai

Our study employs sentiment analysis to evaluate the compatibility of Amazon.com reviews with their corresponding ratings. Sentiment analysis is the task of identifying and classifying the sentiment expressed in a piece of text as being…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Nishit Shrestha , Fatma Nasoz

The federated recommendation system is an emerging AI service architecture that provides recommendation services in a privacy-preserving manner. Using user-relation graphs to enhance federated recommendations is a promising topic. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijjian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

Search queries are appropriate when users have explicit intent, but they perform poorly when the intent is difficult to express or if the user is simply looking to be inspired. Visual browsing systems allow e-commerce platforms to address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Choon Hui Teo , Houssam Nassif , Daniel Hill , Sriram Srinavasan , Mitchell Goodman , Vijai Mohan , SVN Vishwanathan

Modeling user-item interaction patterns is an important task for personalized recommendations. Many recommender systems are based on the assumption that there exists a linear relationship between users and items while neglecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Aixin Sun , Sen Wang , Guodong Long , Manqing Dong

Generative recommendation (GR) is an emerging paradigm where user actions are tokenized into discrete token patterns and autoregressively generated as predictions. However, existing GR models tokenize each action independently, assigning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yupeng Hou , Jianmo Ni , Zhankui He , Noveen Sachdeva , Wang-Cheng Kang , Ed H. Chi , Julian McAuley , Derek Zhiyuan Cheng

The rise of personalized generative models raises a central question: how should we evaluate identity preservation? Given a reference image (e.g., one's pet), we expect the generated image to retain precise details attached to the subject's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Connor Kilrain , David Carlyn , Julia Chae , Sara Beery , Wei-Lun Chao , Jianyang Gu

User reviews on e-commerce platforms exhibit dynamic sentiment patterns driven by temporal and contextual factors. Traditional sentiment analysis methods focus on static reviews, failing to capture the evolving temporal relationship between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xin Zhang , Qiyu Wei , Yingjie Zhu , Linhai Zhang , Deyu Zhou , Sophia Ananiadou

Graph-based recommender systems (GRSs) analyze the structural information in the graphical representation of data to make better recommendations, especially when the direct user-item relation data is sparse. Ranking-oriented GRSs that form…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Taher Hekmatfar , Saman Haratizadeh , Sama Goliaei

Personalised text generation is essential for user-centric information systems, yet most evaluation methods overlook the individuality of users. We introduce \textbf{PREF}, a \textbf{P}ersonalised \textbf{R}eference-free \textbf{E}valuation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xiao Fu , Hossein A. Rahmani , Bin Wu , Jerome Ramos , Emine Yilmaz , Aldo Lipani

Product reviews significantly influence purchasing decisions on e-commerce platforms. However, the sheer volume of reviews can overwhelm users, obscuring the information most relevant to their specific needs. Current e-commerce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Millend Roy , Agostino Capponi , Vineet Goyal

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) critically depends on effective query expansion to retrieve relevant information. However, existing expansion methods adopt uniform strategies that overlook user-specific semantics, ignoring individual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Yingyi Zhang , Pengyue Jia , Derong Xu , Yi Wen , Xianneng Li , Yichao Wang , Wenlin Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Weinan Gan , Huifeng Guo , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao

Realizing personalized intelligence faces a core dilemma: sending user history to centralized large language models raises privacy concerns, while on-device small language models lack the reasoning capacity required for high-quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hang Lv , Sheng Liang , Hao Wang , Yongyue Zhang , Hongchao Gu , Wei Guo , Defu Lian , Yong Liu , Enhong Chen

Dynamic interaction graphs have been widely adopted to model the evolution of user-item interactions over time. There are two crucial factors when modelling user preferences for link prediction in dynamic interaction graphs: 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jiahao Liu , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Peng Zhang , Ning Gu

Explanations in a recommender system assist users in making informed decisions among a set of recommended items. Great research attention has been devoted to generating natural language explanations to depict how the recommendations are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Peng Wang , Renqin Cai , Hongning Wang

In-context learning has recently been linked to implicit gradient descent in linear self-attention models, suggesting that context can induce a forward-pass update. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) also relies on context, but retrieved…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mingchen Li , Jiatan Huang , Chuxu Zhang , Liang Zhao , Hong Yu

User preference modeling is a vital yet challenging problem in personalized product search. In recent years, latent space based methods have achieved state-of-the-art performance by jointly learning semantic representations of products,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Fan Lu , Qimai Li , Bo Liu , Xiao-Ming Wu , Xiaotong Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Guli Lin , Sen Li , Taiwei Jin , Keping Yang

Writing review for a purchased item is a unique channel to express a user's opinion in E-Commerce. Recently, many deep learning based solutions have been proposed by exploiting user reviews for rating prediction. In contrast, there has been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Chenliang Li , Xichuan Niu , Xiangyang Luo , Zhenzhong Chen , Cong Quan