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Recommender systems have become increasingly ubiquitous in daily life. While traditional recommendation approaches primarily rely on ID-based representations or item-side content features, they often fall short in capturing the underlying…

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Recent cross-domain recommendation (CDR) studies assume that disentangled domain-shared and domain-specific user representations can mitigate domain gaps and facilitate effective knowledge transfer. However, achieving perfect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Jia Wu , Jian Yang , Michael Sheng , Lina Yao

In this study, we present a novel clustering-based collaborative filtering (CF) method for recommender systems. Clustering-based CF methods can effectively deal with data sparsity and scalability problems. However, most of them are applied…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Munlika Rattaphun , Wen-Chieh Fang , Chih-Yi Chiu

Representation learning is essential for deep-neural-network-based recommender systems to capture user preferences and item features within fixed-dimensional user and item vectors. Unlike existing representation learning methods that either…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Riwei Lai , Li Chen , Weixin Chen , Rui Chen

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to predict users' next interaction based on their historical behaviors, while still facing the challenge of data sparsity. With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyao Huang , Qidong Liu , Wenxuan Yang , Moranxin Wang , Yuqi Sun , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

Recommender systems are one of the most successful applications of machine learning and data science. They are successful in a wide variety of application domains, including e-commerce, media streaming content, email marketing, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Juan Pablo Equihua , Maged Ali , Henrik Nordmark , Berthold Lausen

One of the main challenges in recommender systems is data sparsity which leads to high variance. Several attempts have been made to improve the bias-variance trade-off using auxiliary information. In particular, document modeling-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Meysam Varasteh , Mehdi Soleiman Nejad , Hadi Moradi , Mohammad Amin Sadeghi , Ahmad Kalhor

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as a powerful backbone for recommender systems. Existing LLM-based recommender systems take two different approaches for representing items in natural language, i.e., Attribute-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kibum Kim , Sein Kim , Hongseok Kang , Jiwan Kim , Heewoong Noh , Yeonjun In , Kanghoon Yoon , Jinoh Oh , Julian McAuley , Chanyoung Park

Recommender systems have been actively and extensively studied over past decades. In the meanwhile, the boom of Big Data is driving fundamental changes in the development of recommender systems. In this paper, we propose a dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-13 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao

Traditional ID-based recommender systems often struggle with cold-start and generalization challenges. Multimodal recommendation systems, which leverage textual and visual data, offer a promising solution to mitigate these issues. However,…

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) capture user preference through textual information in dialogues. However, they suffer from data sparsity on two fronts: the dialogue space is vast and linguistically diverse, while the item space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sixiao Zhang , Mingrui Liu , Cheng Long , Wei Yuan , Hongxu Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Hongzhi Yin

Recommender systems are indispensable in the realm of online applications, and sequential recommendation has enjoyed considerable prevalence due to its capacity to encapsulate the dynamic shifts in user interests. However, previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junzhe Jiang , Shang Qu , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Zhiding Liu , Hao Zhang , Rujiao Zhang , Kai Zhang , Rui Li , Jiatong Li , Min Gao

Recommender systems are tools that support online users by pointing them to potential items of interest in situations of information overload. In recent years, the class of session-based recommendation algorithms received more attention in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Malte Ludewig , Noemi Mauro , Sara Latifi , Dietmar Jannach

Recent advancements of sequential deep learning models such as Transformer and BERT have significantly facilitated the sequential recommendation. However, according to our study, the distribution of item embeddings generated by these models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ruihong Qiu , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin , Zijian Wang

Evaluating recommender systems remains challenging due to the gap between offline metrics and real user behavior, as well as the scarcity of interaction data. Recent work explores large language model (LLM) agents as synthetic users, yet…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Nicolas Bougie , Gian Maria Marconi , Tony Yip , Narimasa Watanabe

It has become increasingly clear that recommender systems that overly focus on short-term engagement prevents users from exploring diverse interests, ultimately hurting long-term user experience. To tackle this challenge, numerous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Yuyan Wang , Cheenar Banerjee , Samer Chucri , Fabio Soldo , Sriraj Badam , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

Collaborative Metric Learning (CML) has recently emerged as a popular method in recommendation systems (RS), closing the gap between metric learning and collaborative filtering. Following the convention of RS, existing practices exploit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shilong Bao , Qianqian Xu , Zhiyong Yang , Yuan He , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Recommender agents built on Large Language Models offer a promising paradigm for recommendation. However, existing recommender agents typically suffer from a disconnect between intermediate reasoning and final ranking feedback, and are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Tianyi Li , Zixuan Wang , Guidong Lei , Xiaodong Li , Hui Li

Federated recommendation is a new Internet service architecture that aims to provide privacy-preserving recommendation services in federated settings. Existing solutions are used to combine distributed recommendation algorithms and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Peng Yan , Zijian Zhang , Chengqi Zhang , Bo Yang

Recommender systems are critical for delivering personalized content across digital platforms, and recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new opportunities to enhance them with richer world knowledge and explicit reasoning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jingtong Gao , Zeyu Song , Chi Lu , Xiaopeng Li , Derong Xu , Maolin Wang , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao