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PoDiRe learns long-term rewards in multi-task recommendations.

problem Long-term rewards in multiple recommendation tasks.
method Policy Distilled Reinforcement Learning (PoDiRe) combining deep reinforcement learning and knowledge distillation.
result PoDiRe outperforms state-of-the-art methods in real-world data.

Skip-gram with negative sampling, a popular variant of Word2vec originally designed and tuned to create word embeddings for Natural Language Processing, has been used to create item embeddings with successful applications in recommendation. While these fields do not share the same type of data, neither evaluate on the …

2018-04-11abs ↗pdf ↗

The two main tasks in the Recommender Systems domain are the ranking and rating prediction tasks. The rating prediction task aims at predicting to what extent a user would like any given item, which would enable to recommend the items with the highest predicted scores. The ranking task on the other hand directly aims a…

2018-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

One of the first things to do while planning a trip is to book a good place to stay. Booking a hotel online can be an overwhelming task with thousands of hotels to choose from, for every destination. Motivated by the importance of these situations, we decided to work on the task of recommending hotels to users. We used…

2019-08-20abs ↗pdf ↗

CnGAN generates synthetic user preferences for non-overlapped users in cross-network recommender systems.

problem Cross-network recommender solutions ignore non-overlapped users, limiting their applicability.
method Multi-task learning, encoder-GAN architecture, user-based pairwise loss function.
result Generated user preferences improve recommendations for non-overlapped users, achieving superior performance.

RecoBERT uses a language model to recommend items from catalogs.

problem Harnessing language models for text-based item recommendations.
method RecoBERT is a BERT-based approach that learns specialized language models for item recommendations without requiring labeled data.
result RecoBERT outperforms other techniques in inferring item similarities from textual catalogs.

In many online applications interactions between a user and a web-service are organized in a sequential way, e.g., user browsing an e-commerce website. In this setting, recommendation system acts throughout user navigation by showing items. Previous works have addressed this recommendation setup through the task of pre…

2018-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

In a variety of application domains the content to be recommended to users is associated with text. This includes research papers, movies with associated plot summaries, news articles, blog posts, etc. Recommendation approaches based on latent factor models can be extended naturally to leverage text by employing an exp…

2016-09-07abs ↗pdf ↗

HyperSTAR optimizes deep network hyperparameters for specific tasks.

problem Finding optimal hyperparameters for deep neural networks is computationally expensive and task-agnostic approaches are inefficient.
method HyperSTAR learns a dataset representation and a performance predictor from raw images, ranking and recommending hyperparameters conditioned on a joint dataset-hyperparameter space.
result HyperSTAR reduces HPO time by 50% on large-scale image classification datasets.

MiM-StocR combines momentum indicators and adaptive ranking loss for better stock recommendation.

problem Lack of simultaneous short-term trend and ranking prediction in stock recommendation models.
method Integrates momentum indicators and proposes Adaptive-k ApproxNDCG for ranking optimization.
result MiM-StocR outperforms state-of-the-art MTL baselines in stock recommendation.

Model improves CVR estimation in recommender systems by mitigating bias and overlooking causal relationships.

problem Data sparsity and sample selection bias in CVR estimation.
method Entire Space Counterfactual Multitask Model (ESCM2^2) incorporating counterfactual risk minimizer.
result Significantly enhances recommendation performance by effectively mitigating bias and overlooking causal relationships.

Cold-start problems are long-standing challenges for practical recommendations. Most existing recommendation algorithms rely on extensive observed data and are brittle to recommendation scenarios with few interactions. This paper addresses such problems using few-shot learning and meta learning. Our approach is based o…

2019-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural Logic Reasoning integrates deep learning and symbolic logic for better prediction tasks.

problem Lack of cognitive reasoning in deep neural networks limits their ability to solve complex prediction tasks.
method Proposes Logic-Integrated Neural Network (LINN) that learns logical operations and conducts propositional logical reasoning.
result LINN significantly outperforms state-of-the-art recommendation models in Top-K recommendation.

Proposes a deep learning model for timely and accurate recommendations.

problem Inability to provide timely recommendations and ranking issues with implicit feedback.
method Unified cross-network solution using listwise ranking for implicit data.
result Superior performance in accuracy, novelty, and diversity compared to baselines.

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.

Memory-Augmented Meta-Optimization improves cold-start recommendation.

problem Cold-start problem in recommender systems for new users or items.
method Memory-Augmented Meta-Optimization approach with personalized and task-specific memories.
result Significant improvement in cold-start recommendation performance on multiple datasets.

This study tackles mutual fund portfolio prediction, focusing on novel items.

problem Predicting novel items in mutual fund portfolios is challenging and less explored.
method Created a comprehensive benchmark dataset and evaluated various recommender system models.
result Autoencoder-based approaches outperform state-of-the-art models in predicting novel items.

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 ↗

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 ↗

BLOB combines organic and bandit signals for better user interest estimation.

problem Combining organic and bandit signals for improved user interest estimation.
method Bayesian Latent Organic Bandit (BLOB) model using variational auto-encoders and local re-parametrization.
result BLOB outperforms organic and bandit-based methods in both organic and bandit-rich environments.

We present our solution to the job recommendation task for RecSys Challenge 2016. The main contribution of our work is to combine temporal learning with sequence modeling to capture complex user-item activity patterns to improve job recommendations. First, we propose a time-based ranking model applied to historical obs…

2016-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

New method interprets deep neural networks for better recommendation system understanding.

problem Making deep neural networks explainable for better user trust and understanding.
method Proposes a novel formulation of interpretable deep neural networks using masked weights and hidden features.
result Demonstrates models achieving close predictive performance with informative attributions.

HyperFair integrates fairness in recommender systems using probabilistic soft logic.

problem Ensuring fairness in recommender systems across diverse domains.
method Soft fairness constraints integrated as regularization in a joint inference objective function.
result HyperFair improves fairness of predictions from black-box models and hybrid systems.

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) have received significant attention in the recent years as an elegant model for a variety of machine learning tasks, due to their ability to elegantly model set diversity and item quality or popularity. Recent work has shown that DPPs can be effective models for product recommendati…

2018-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

XploVAE improves recommendation by balancing known and novel items.

problem Balancing known and novel items for better recommendations.
method Constructs user-specific subgraphs for exploitation and exploration, learns personalized item embeddings.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on various real-world datasets.

Proposes a new framework for resource-limited recommendation.

problem Resource constraints affect user choices in recommendation tasks.
method Interest-behavior multiplicative network with MRRNNs and resource-limited branch.
result Framework effectively predicts user interactions considering resource limitations.

In this paper, we study a multi-step interactive recommendation problem, where the item recommended at current step may affect the quality of future recommendations. To address the problem, we develop a novel and effective approach, named CFRL, which seamlessly integrates the ideas of both collaborative filtering (CF) …

2019-02-02abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

This paper reviews methods for constructing confidence intervals for error rates in 1:1 matching tasks.

problem Challenges in assessing uncertainty of error rates in matching algorithms, especially when data are dependent and error rates are low.
method Derives and examines statistical properties of methods for constructing confidence intervals for error rates in 1:1 matching tasks.
result Coverage and interval width vary with sample size, error rates, and data dependence.

Paper presents content-based models for game recommendation in cold start scenarios.

problem Cold start problem in game recommendation where new games and players have no historical data.
method Uses survey data to develop content-based interaction models that generalize to new games, players, and both.
result Content models outperform collaborative filtering in predicting new interactions.

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 personality-based recommender system tackles data sparsity without feedback.

problem Data sparsity without common feedback among users.
method Implicitly identifying users' personality type and incorporating it with personal interests and knowledge level.
result The model's effectiveness, especially in data sparsity situations, demonstrated on a real-world dataset.

DiPS learns to optimize sketching policies for better recommendation quality.

problem Optimizing sketching policies for long-term user interest prediction in recommender systems.
method Differentiable policy for sketching that learns from training data.
result DiPS requires up to 50% fewer sketch items to achieve the same recommendation quality.

New algorithm optimizes long-term user satisfaction in recommendation systems.

problem Optimizing long-term user satisfaction in recommendation systems with delayed rewards.
method Developed a predictive model of delayed rewards and a bandit algorithm that balances exploration and exploitation.
result Our approach results in substantially better performance compared to short-term or delayed optimization.