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48 results for Session-based Recommendation

ADER addresses continual learning in session-based recommendation by periodically replaying exemplars with adaptive distillation.

problem Catastrophic forgetting in continual learning of session-based recommenders.
method Periodically replaying previous training samples (exemplars) with an adaptive distillation loss.
result ADER consistently outperforms other continual learning techniques and even all historical data at every update cycle.

The problem of session-based recommendation aims to predict user actions based on anonymous sessions. Previous methods model a session as a sequence and estimate user representations besides item representations to make recommendations. Though achieved promising results, they are insufficient to obtain accurate user ve…

2018-11-01abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper tackles biases in session-based recommender systems by modeling user interest as a stochastic process.

problem Data uncertainty, popularity bias, and exposure bias in session-based recommender systems.
method The paper proposes treating user interest as a stochastic process in the latent space, debiasing item embeddings, modeling dense user interest, and introducing fake targets to simulate extended exposure.
result The proposed approach mitigates challenges in session-based recommender systems, as shown by computational experiments on various datasets.

News recommender systems are aimed to personalize users experiences and help them to discover relevant articles from a large and dynamic search space. Therefore, news domain is a challenging scenario for recommendations, due to its sparse user profiling, fast growing number of items, accelerated item's value decay, and…

2018-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

CHAMELEON tackles news recommendation using deep learning, addressing cold-start issues.

problem Personalizing user experiences in a dynamic news search space.
method Modular reference architecture with different neural building blocks, leveraging user and article context, and modeling temporal decay and concept drift.
result CHAMELEON outperforms traditional and state-of-the-art session-based recommendation algorithms in accuracy, item coverage, novelty, and reduced item cold-start problem.

A new model learns preferences incrementally without personal data.

problem Incremental session-based recommendation without personal data.
method Memory Augmented Neural model (MAN) that combines a neural recommender with a nonparametric memory.
result MAN consistently outperforms existing methods in incremental session-based recommendation.

Session-based Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are gaining increasing popularity for recommendation task, due to the high autocorrelation of user's behavior on the latest session and the effectiveness of RNN to capture the sequence order information. However, most existing session-based RNN recommender systems still so…

2019-09-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently introduced in the domain of session-based next item recommendation. An ordered collection of past items the user has interacted with in a session (or sequence) are embedded into a 2-dimensional latent matrix, and treated as an image. The convolution and pooling op…

2018-08-15abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we attempt to ameliorate the impact of data sparsity in the context of session-based recommendation. Specifically, we seek to devise a machine learning mechanism capable of extracting subtle and complex underlying temporal dynamics in the observed session data, so as to inform the recommendation algorithm…

2017-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

ragamAI uses machine learning to create concert recitals for Carnatic music.

problem Creating a comprehensive listening experience for Carnatic music concerts.
method Playlist and session-based recommender models, leveraging mathematical structure in past concerts.
result ragamAI generates concert recitals that perform 25%-50% better than baseline models.

EMDE efficiently estimates manifold densities for diverse recommendation systems.

problem Efficiently estimating manifold densities for multi-modal recommendation systems.
method EMDE (Efficient Manifold Density Estimator) framework for arbitrary vector representations.
result Established new state-of-the-art results in top-k and session-based recommendation settings.

Deviation-based learning improves recommender systems by abstaining from recommending choices users might follow.

problem Recommender systems learn from user choices but can stall if users blindly follow recommendations.
method The recommender learns user knowledge by observing choices, abstaining from recommending a choice when multiple alternatives produce similar payoffs.
result Learning rate and social welfare improve when the recommender abstains from recommending certain choices.

CAFL breaks feedback loops in recommender systems using causal inference.

problem Feedback loops in recommender systems compromise recommendation quality and homogenize user behavior.
method Causal Adjustment for Feedback Loops (CAFL) algorithm that breaks feedback loops using causal inference.
result CAFL improves recommendation quality compared to prior correction methods.

DeepFair improves fairness in recommender systems without sacrificing accuracy.

problem Lack of bias management in recommender systems leads to unfair recommendations for minority groups.
method Deep Learning based Collaborative Filtering algorithm that balances fairness and accuracy.
result It is possible to make fair recommendations without losing significant accuracy.

Machine learning models learn what we teach them to learn. Machine learning is at the heart of recommender systems. If a machine learning model is trained on biased data, the resulting recommender system may reflect the biases in its recommendations. Biases arise at different stages in a recommender system, from existi…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper aims to define a benchmark for deep learning recommendation models.

problem Insufficient benchmarking for deep learning recommendation models.
method Synthesizes modeling strategies, defines desirable characteristics, and summarizes advice from the MLPerf Recommendation Advisory Board.
result Defines an industry-relevant benchmark for deep learning recommendation models.

Interprets feature interactions in ad-click prediction models.

problem Improving interpretability of black-box recommender systems.
method Interprets feature interactions from a source model and encodes them in a target model.
result Interpretations significantly outperform existing recommender models.

Interactive recommender systems that enable the interactions between users and the recommender system have attracted increasing research attentions. Previous methods mainly focus on optimizing recommendation accuracy. However, they usually ignore the diversity of the recommendation results, thus usually results in unsa…

2019-07-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Job recommendation has traditionally been treated as a filter-based match or as a recommendation based on the features of jobs and candidates as discrete entities. In this paper, we introduce a methodology where we leverage the progression of job selection by candidates using machine learning. Additionally, our recomme…

2019-05-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Data poisoning attacks can manipulate recommender systems to recommend target items.

problem Attacks on recommender systems to influence top-N item recommendations.
method Formulated as an optimization problem, solved using influence function to select influential users.
result Effective data poisoning attacks that outperform existing methods.

Recommender system is an important component of many web services to help users locate items that match their interests. Several studies showed that recommender systems are vulnerable to poisoning attacks, in which an attacker injects fake data to a given system such that the system makes recommendations as the attacke…

2018-09-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a real-time exercise recommendation system using deep learning.

problem Improving accuracy in exercise recommendation systems without user feedback.
method Deep recurrent neural network with attention mechanisms, real-time expert feedback.
result Improved accuracy in exercise recommendation system after real-time active learning.

Recommender systems are used in variety of domains affecting people's lives. This has raised concerns about possible biases and discrimination that such systems might exacerbate. There are two primary kinds of biases inherent in recommender systems: observation bias and bias stemming from imbalanced data. Observation b…

2018-09-13abs ↗pdf ↗

ComiRec framework predicts user interests for personalized recommendations.

problem Predicting user interests from sequential behavior data.
method ComiRec framework captures multiple user interests and balances recommendation accuracy and diversity.
result ComiRec achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art models in sequential recommendation.

In this paper, we investigate the common scenario where every candidate item for recommendation is characterized by a maximum capacity, i.e., number of seats in a Point-of-Interest (POI) or size of an item's inventory. Despite the prevalence of the task of recommending items under capacity constraints in a variety of s…

2017-01-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Recommender systems play a crucial role in mitigating the problem of information overload by suggesting users' personalized items or services. The vast majority of traditional recommender systems consider the recommendation procedure as a static process and make recommendations following a fixed strategy. In this paper…

2017-12-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Unified deep framework for personalized recommendations with uncertainty.

problem Uncertainty in user preferences in recommendation systems.
method Gaussian embeddings, Monte-Carlo sampling, convolutional neural networks.
result Superior performance in recommendation accuracy compared to state-of-the-art models.

Proposes a deep hybrid model for better recommendation systems.

problem Limited studies on hybrid recommender systems and the need for more advanced approaches.
method Integrates deep learning with ID embeddings and auxiliary features for improved recommendation.
result Improves recommendation results over deep learning models using ID embeddings.

SharedMF uses secret sharing to protect privacy in distributed recommendation systems.

problem Privacy issues in multi-source data for recommendation systems.
method Federated learning and secret sharing technology.
result SharedMF achieves faster execution speed and better data adaptability compared to homomorphic encryption methods.

Many businesses are using recommender systems for marketing outreach. Recommendation algorithms can be either based on content or driven by collaborative filtering. We study different ways to incorporate content information directly into the matrix factorization approach of collaborative filtering. These content-booste…

2012-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes auditing for envy-freeness in recommender systems to assess individual preferences.

problem Auditing fairness in recommender systems for individual preferences.
method Formulates a pure exploration problem in multi-armed bandits, proposing a sample-efficient algorithm with theoretical guarantees.
result Algorithm ensures fairness without deteriorating user experience on real-world datasets.

Proposes using frequent sequences to improve sequential recommendation models.

problem Combining user history and recent actions for personalized recommendations.
method Uses frequent sequences to identify relevant parts of user history, embedding items based on preferences and dynamics in a unified metric model.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods, especially on sparse datasets.

CLEAR learns causal graphs from attention in recommender systems to explain user behavior.

problem Understanding why specific recommendations are made in recommender systems.
method CLEAR learns session-specific causal graphs from attention in pre-trained neural recommenders, addressing latent confounders.
result CLEAR provides counterfactual explanations that are shorter and more effective than naive methods.

The majority of recommender systems are designed to recommend items (such as movies and products) to users. We focus on the problem of recommending buyers to sellers which comes with new challenges: (1) constraints on the number of recommendations buyers are part of before they become overwhelmed, (2) constraints on th…

2014-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes unbiased learning for recommendation causal effects.

problem Estimating the causal effect of recommendation when the ground truth is unobservable.
method Inverse propensity scoring technique to construct unbiased estimators, followed by empirical risk minimization with propensity capping.
result The proposed method outperforms other biased learning methods in various settings.

Paper introduces RTT2Vec for real-time grocery recommendations, achieving 9.4% uplift over baselines.

problem Personalized grocery recommendations to improve user experience and sales.
method RTT2Vec deep architecture for real-time recommendations, approximate inference technique.
result 9.4% uplift in prediction metrics over baseline models.