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The video game industry is larger than both the film and music industries combined. Recommender systems for video games have received relatively scant academic attention, despite the uniqueness of the medium and its data. In this paper, we…

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Achieving optimal balance in games is essential to their success, yet reliant on extensive manual work and playtesting. To facilitate this process, the Procedural Content Generation via Reinforcement Learning (PCGRL) framework has recently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Florian Rupp , Alessandro Puddu , Christian Becker-Asano , Kai Eckert

Recently, neural networks have been widely used in e-commerce recommender systems, owing to the rapid development of deep learning. We formalize the recommender system as a sequential recommendation problem, intending to predict the next…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Yukuo Cen , Jianwei Zhang , Xu Zou , Chang Zhou , Hongxia Yang , Jie Tang

Many recommendation systems rely on point-wise models, which score items individually. However, point-wise models generating scores for a video are unable to account for other videos being recommended in a query. Due to this, diversity has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Khushhall Chandra Mahajan , Aditya Palnitkar , Ameya Raul , Brad Schumitsch

With the increasing availability of videos, how to edit them and present the most interesting parts to users, i.e., video highlight, has become an urgent need with many broad applications. As users'visual preferences are subjective and vary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Le Wu , Yonghui Yang , Lei Chen , Defu Lian , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Collaborative filtering has been largely used to advance modern recommender systems to predict user preference. A key component in collaborative filtering is representation learning, which aims to project users and items into a low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Gang Wang , Ziyi Guo , Xiang Li , Dawei Yin , Shuai Ma

Multi-behavior recommendation (MBR) aims to improve the performance w.r.t. the target behavior (i.e., purchase) by leveraging auxiliary behaviors (e.g., click, favourite). However, in real-world scenarios, a recommendation method often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Wenhao Lai , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

In the vast landscape of internet information, recommender systems (RecSys) have become essential for guiding users through a sea of choices aligned with their preferences. These systems have applications in diverse domains, such as news…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Jianguo Zhang , Rithesh Murthy , Shelby Heinecke , Huan Wang , Caiming Xiong , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems are often biased toward popular items. In other words, few items are frequently recommended while the majority of items do not get proportionate attention. That leads to low coverage of items in recommendation lists…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Masoud Mansoury , Himan Abdollahpouri , Mykola Pechenizkiy , Bamshad Mobasher , Robin Burke

Recommender systems based on graph neural networks perform well in tasks such as rating and ranking. However, in real-world recommendation scenarios, noise such as user misuse and malicious advertisement gradually accumulates through the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Meng Yan , Cai Xu , Xujing Wang , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao , Yuhang Zhou

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

Recommender Systems have proliferated as general-purpose approaches to model a wide variety of consumer interaction data. Specific instances make use of signals ranging from user feedback, item relationships, geographic locality, social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Wang-Cheng Kang , Mengting Wan , Julian McAuley

Information technology has spread widely, and extraordinarily large amounts of data have been made accessible to users, which has made it challenging to select data that are in accordance with user needs. For the resolution of the above…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Saman Forouzandeh , Mehrdad Rostami , Kamal Berahmand

Relevance and diversity are both important to the success of recommender systems, as they help users to discover from a large pool of items a compact set of candidates that are not only interesting but exploratory as well. The challenge is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Yifang Liu , Zhentao Xu , Qiyuan An , Yang Yi , Yanzhi Wang , Trevor Hastie

ID-based Recommender Systems (RecSys), where each item is assigned a unique identifier and subsequently converted into an embedding vector, have dominated the designing of RecSys. Though prevalent, such ID-based paradigm is not suitable for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Youhua Li , Hanwen Du , Yongxin Ni , Pengpeng Zhao , Qi Guo , Fajie Yuan , Xiaofang Zhou

Video games have become an integral part of most people's lives in recent times. This led to an abundance of data related to video games being shared online. However, this comes with issues such as incorrect ratings, reviews or anything…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-30 Vishal Batchu , Varshit Battu , Murali Krishna Reddy , Radhika Mamidi

Recommender systems in multi-behavior domains, such as advertising and e-commerce, aim to guide users toward high-value but inherently sparse conversions. Leveraging auxiliary behaviors (e.g., clicks, likes, shares) is therefore essential.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhefan Wang , Guokai Yan , Jinbei Yu , Siyu Gu , Jingyan Chen , Peng Jiang , Zhiqiang Guo , Min Zhang

Due to the convenience of mobile devices, the online games have become an important part for user entertainments in reality, creating a demand for friend recommendation in online games. However, none of existing approaches can effectively…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Qiwei Wang , Dandan Lin , Wenqing Lin , Ziming Wu

Context: The video game industry is a billion dollar industry that faces problems in the way games are developed. One method to address these problems is using developer aid tools, such as Recommendation Systems. These tools assist…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Cristiano Politowski , Lisandra M. Fontoura , Fabio Petrillo , Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc

Recommender systems aim to enhance the overall user experience by providing tailored recommendations for a variety of products and services. These systems help users make more informed decisions, leading to greater user engagement with the…

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