As the deep learning techniques have expanded to real-world recommendation tasks, many deep neural network based Collaborative Filtering (CF) models have been developed to project user-item interactions into latent feature space, based on various neural architectures, such as multi-layer perceptron, auto-encoder and graph neural networks. However, the majority of existing collaborative filtering systems are not well designed to handle missing data. Particularly, in order to inject the negative signals in the training phase, these solutions largely rely on negative sampling from unobserved user-item interactions and simply treating them as negative instances, which brings the recommendation performance degradation. To address the issues, we develop a Collaborative Reflection-Augmented Autoencoder Network (CRANet), that is capable of exploring transferable knowledge from observed and unobserved user-item interactions. The network architecture of CRANet is formed of an integrative structure with a reflective receptor network and an information fusion autoencoder module, which endows our recommendation framework with the ability of encoding implicit user's pairwise preference on both interacted and non-interacted items. Additionally, a parametric regularization-based tied-weight scheme is designed to perform robust joint training of the two-stage CRANet model. We finally experimentally validate CRANet on four diverse benchmark datasets corresponding to two recommendation tasks, to show that debiasing the negative signals of user-item interactions improves the performance as compared to various state-of-the-art recommendation techniques. Our source code is available at https://github.com/akaxlh/CRANet.
Collaborative Personalized Web Recommender System using Entropy based Similarity Measure
Acharya Narender Dev College, University of Delhi（德里大学阿查里亚·纳伦德拉·德夫学院）；Swami Sharaddhanand College, University of Delhi（德里大学斯瓦米·沙拉德南德学院）；University of Delhi（德里大学）；Atma Ram Sanatam Dharam College, University of Delhi（德里大学阿特马·拉姆·萨纳坦·达拉姆学院）
Know-Center GmbH（Know-Center有限公司）；Graz University of Technology（格拉茨技术大学）
Multimedia recommender systems suggest media items, e.g., songs, (digital) books and movies, to users by utilizing concepts of traditional recommender systems such as collaborative filtering. In this paper, we investigate a potential issue of such collaborative-filtering based multimedia recommender systems, namely popularity bias that leads to the underrepresentation of unpopular items in the recommendation lists. Therefore, we study four multimedia datasets, i.e., LastFm, MovieLens, BookCrossing and MyAnimeList, that we each split into three user groups differing in their inclination to popu…
Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Inria（里尔大学、法国国家科学研究中心、里尔中央理工学院、法国国家信息与自动化研究所）
A standard model for Recommender Systems is the Matrix Completion setting: given partially known matrix of ratings given by users (rows) to items (columns), infer the unknown ratings. In the last decades, few attempts where done to handle that objective with Neural Networks, but recently an architecture based on Autoencoders proved to be a promising approach. In current paper, we enhanced that architecture (i) by using a loss function adapted to input data with missing values, and (ii) by incorporating side information. The experiments demonstrate that while side information only slightly impr…
Among various recommender techniques, collaborative filtering (CF) is the most successful one. And a key problem in CF is how to represent users and items. Previous works usually represent a user (an item) as a vector of latent factors (aka. \textit{embedding}) and then model the interactions between users and items based on the representations. Despite its effectiveness, we argue that it's insufficient to yield satisfactory embeddings for collaborative filtering. Inspired by the idea of SVD++ that represents users based on themselves and their interacted items, we propose a general collaborat…
HC Research（HC研究院）；HC Financial Service Group（HC金融服务集团）
Recommender systems have received great commercial success. Recommendation has been used widely in areas such as e-commerce, online music FM, online news portal, etc. However, several problems related to input data structure pose serious challenge to recommender system performance. Two of these problems are Matthew effect and sparsity problem. Matthew effect heavily skews recommender system output towards popular items. Data sparsity problem directly affects the coverage of recommendation result. Collaborative filtering is a simple benchmark ubiquitously adopted in the industry as the baseline…
Recommender Systems are a subclass of machine learning systems that employ sophisticated information filtering strategies to reduce the search time and suggest the most relevant items to any particular user. Hybrid recommender systems combine multiple recommendation strategies in different ways to benefit from their complementary advantages. Some hybrid recommender systems have combined collaborative filtering and content-based approaches to build systems that are more robust. In this paper, we propose a hybrid recommender system, which combines Alternating Least Squares (ALS) based collaborat…
Macquarie University（麦考瑞大学）；CSIRO Data61（联邦科学与工业研究组织数据61所）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）
Recommender systems have recently attracted many researchers in the deep learning community. The state-of-the-art deep neural network models used in recommender systems are typically multilayer perceptron and deep Autoencoder (DAE), among which DAE usually shows better performance due to its superior capability to reconstruct the inputs. However, we found existing DAE recommendation systems that have similar implementations on similar datasets result in vastly different parameter settings. In this work, we have built a flexible DAE model, named FlexEncoder that uses configurable parameters and…
K. N. Toosi University of Technology（卡努西科技大学）；Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM)（基础科学研究所（IPM））
Due to the extensive growth of information available online, recommender systems play a more significant role in serving people's interests. Traditional recommender systems mostly use an accuracy-focused approach to produce recommendations. Today's research suggests that this single-dimension approach can lead the system to be biased against a series of items with certain attributes. Biased recommendations across groups of items can endanger the interests of item providers along with causing user dissatisfaction with the system. This study aims to manage a new type of intersectional bias regar…
Deep learning provides accurate collaborative filtering models to improve recommender system results. Deep matrix factorization and their related collaborative neural networks are the state-of-art in the field; nevertheless, both models lack the necessary stochasticity to create the robust, continuous, and structured latent spaces that variational autoencoders exhibit. On the other hand, data augmentation through variational autoencoder does not provide accurate results in the collaborative filtering field due to the high sparsity of recommender systems. Our proposed models apply the variation…
In recent years, deep neural network is introduced in recommender systems to solve the collaborative filtering problem, which has achieved immense success on computer vision, speech recognition and natural language processing. On one hand, deep neural network can be used to model the auxiliary information in recommender systems. On the other hand, it is also capable of modeling nonlinear relationships between users and items. One advantage of deep neural network is that the performance of the algorithm can be easily enhanced by augmenting the depth of the neural network. However, two potential…
University of California, Berkeley（加利福尼亚大学伯克利分校）；Cornell Tech（康奈尔科技学院）；Technion（以色列理工学院）
Recommender systems play a crucial role in mediating our access to online information. We show that such algorithms induce a particular kind of stereotyping: if preferences for a set of items are anti-correlated in the general user population, then those items may not be recommended together to a user, regardless of that user's preferences and rating history. First, we introduce a notion of joint accessibility, which measures the extent to which a set of items can jointly be accessed by users. We then study joint accessibility under the standard factorization-based collaborative filtering fram…
Incorporating Recklessness to Collaborative Filtering based Recommender Systems
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid（马德里理工大学）；Universidad Complutense de Madrid（马德里康普顿斯大学）；Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (CSIC-UAM-UCM-UC3M)（数学科学研究所（西班牙高等科学研究理事会-马德里自治大学-马德里康普顿斯大学-马德里卡洛斯三世大学））
Closing the Performance Gap in Generative Recommenders with Collaborative Tokenization and Efficient Modeling
CRITEO AI Lab \& LIGM, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées Paris France；CRITEO AI Lab Paris France；CRITEO AI Lab \& LIGM, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées；CRITEO AI Lab
Hefei University of Technology（合肥工业大学）；Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center（合肥综合性国家科学中心人工智能研究院）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）
Influenced by the great success of deep learning in computer vision and language understanding, research in recommendation has shifted to inventing new recommender models based on neural networks. In recent years, we have witnessed significant progress in developing neural recommender models, which generalize and surpass traditional recommender models owing to the strong representation power of neural networks. In this survey paper, we conduct a systematic review on neural recommender models from the perspective of recommendation modeling with the accuracy goal, aiming to summarize this field …
It is well known that collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems provide better modeling of users and items associated with considerable rating history. The lack of historical ratings results in the user and the item cold-start problems. The latter is the main focus of this work. Most of the current literature addresses this problem by integrating content-based recommendation techniques to model the new item. However, in many cases such content is not available, and the question arises is whether this problem can be mitigated using CF techniques only. We formalize this problem as a…
Universidade da Coruña（科鲁尼亚大学）；Universidad de Oviedo（奥维耶多大学）；CESGA（CESGA（无常见中文名，按原文））；NVIDIA Corporation（英伟达公司（NVIDIA Corporation））
Recommender systems (RS) are increasingly present in our daily lives, especially since the advent of Big Data, which allows for storing all kinds of information about users' preferences. Personalized RS are successfully applied in platforms such as Netflix, Amazon or YouTube. However, they are missing in gastronomic platforms such as TripAdvisor, where moreover we can find millions of images tagged with users' tastes. This paper explores the potential of using those images as sources of information for modeling users' tastes and proposes an image-based classification system to obtain personali…
The closed feedback loop in recommender systems is a common setting that can lead to different types of biases. Several studies have dealt with these biases by designing methods to mitigate their effect on the recommendations. However, most existing studies do not consider the iterative behavior of the system where the closed feedback loop plays a crucial role in incorporating different biases into several parts of the recommendation steps. We present a theoretical framework to model the asymptotic evolution of the different components of a recommender system operating within a feedback loop s…
Collaborative filtering recommender systems (CFRSs) are the key components of successful e-commerce systems. Actually, CFRSs are highly vulnerable to attacks since its openness. However, since attack size is far smaller than that of genuine users, conventional supervised learning based detection methods could be too "dull" to handle such imbalanced classification. In this paper, we improve detection performance from following two aspects. First, we extract well-designed features from user profiles based on the statistical properties of the diverse attack models, making hard classification task…
Privacy laws and regulations enforce data-driven systems, e.g., recommender systems, to erase the data that concern individuals. As machine learning models potentially memorize the training data, data erasure should also unlearn the data lineage in models, which raises increasing interest in the problem of Machine Unlearning (MU). However, existing MU methods cannot be directly applied into recommendation. The basic idea of most recommender systems is collaborative filtering, but existing MU methods ignore the collaborative information across users and items. In this paper, we propose a genera…
Université de la Polynésie Française（法属波利尼西亚大学）；NzhinuSoft
Over the past two decades, recommender systems have attracted a lot of interest due to the explosion in the amount of data in online applications. A particular attention has been paid to collaborative filtering, which is the most widely used in applications that involve information recommendations. Collaborative filtering (CF) uses the known preference of a group of users to make predictions and recommendations about the unknown preferences of other users (recommendations are made based on the past behavior of users). First introduced in the 1990s, a wide variety of increasingly successful mod…
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation. However, the ratings are often very sparse in many applications, causing CF-based methods to degrade significantly in their recommendation performance. To address this sparsity problem, auxiliary information such as item content information may be utilized. Collaborative topic regression (CTR) is an appealing recent method taking this approach which tightly co…
Can We Steer the Black-Box? Towards Controllability-Centric Evaluation of Recommender Systems with Collaborative Agents
Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China（中国科学院信息工程研究所）；School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China（中国科学院大学网络安全学院）
Current state of the art algorithms for recommender systems are mainly based on collaborative filtering, which exploits user ratings to discover latent factors in the data. These algorithms unfortunately do not make effective use of other features, which can help solve two well identified problems of collaborative filtering: cold start (not enough data is available for new users or products) and concept shift (the distribution of ratings changes over time). To address these problems, we propose Modurec: an autoencoder-based method that combines all available information using the feature-wise …
Recommender systems (RS), which have been an essential part in a wide range of applications, can be formulated as a matrix completion (MC) problem. To boost the performance of MC, matrix completion with side information, called inductive matrix completion (IMC), was further proposed. In real applications, the factorized version of IMC is more favored due to its efficiency of optimization and implementation. Regarding the factorized version, traditional IMC method can be interpreted as learning an individual representation for each feature, which is independent from each other. Moreover, repres…
Rakuten Institute of Technology（乐天技术研究所）；Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）
This paper leverages heterogeneous auxiliary information to address the data sparsity problem of recommender systems. We propose a model that learns a shared feature space from heterogeneous data, such as item descriptions, product tags and online purchase history, to obtain better predictions. Our model consists of autoencoders, not only for numerical and categorical data, but also for sequential data, which enables capturing user tastes, item characteristics and the recent dynamics of user preference. We learn the autoencoder architecture for each data source independently in order to better…
Recommender engines have become an integral component in today's e-commerce systems. From recommending books in Amazon to finding friends in social networks such as Facebook, they have become omnipresent. Generally, recommender systems can be classified into two main categories: content based and collaborative filtering based models. Both these models build relationships between users and items to provide recommendations. Content based systems achieve this task by utilizing features extracted from the context available, whereas collaborative systems use shared interests between user-item subse…
AMEM4Rec: Leveraging Cross-User Similarity for Memory Evolution in Agentic LLM Recommenders
Center for AI Research, VinUniversity（越南 Vin 大学人工智能研究中心）；College of Engineering and Computer Science, VinUniversity（越南 Vin 大学工程与计算机科学学院）；Computer Science, VinUniversity（越南 Vin 大学计算机科学）
University of Salamanca（萨拉曼卡大学）；Illinois Institute of Technology（伊利诺伊理工大学）
Online streaming services have become the most popular way of listening to music. The majority of these services are endowed with recommendation mechanisms that help users to discover songs and artists that may interest them from the vast amount of music available. However, many are not reliable as they may not take into account contextual aspects or the ever-evolving user behavior. Therefore, it is necessary to develop systems that consider these aspects. In the field of music, time is one of the most important factors influencing user preferences and managing its effects, and is the motivati…
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully adopted in recommender systems by virtue of the message-passing that implicitly captures collaborative effect. Nevertheless, most of the existing message-passing mechanisms for recommendation are directly inherited from GNNs without scrutinizing whether the captured collaborative effect would benefit the prediction of user preferences. In this paper, we first analyze how message-passing captures the collaborative effect and propose a recommendation-oriented topological metric, Common Interacted Ratio (CIR), which measures the level of interac…
Rakuten Institute of Technology, Rakuten, Inc.（乐天株式会社乐天技术研究院）
Autoencoder-based hybrid recommender systems have become popular recently because of their ability to learn user and item representations by reconstructing various information sources, including users' feedback on items (e.g., ratings) and side information of users and items (e.g., users' occupation and items' title). However, existing systems still use representations learned by matrix factorization (MF) to predict the rating, while using representations learned by neural networks as the regularizer. In this paper, we define the neural representation for prediction (NRP) framework and apply i…
SVD-AE: Simple Autoencoders for Collaborative Filtering
Boeing Korea Engineering and Technology Center (BKETC)（波音韩国工程技术中心（BKETC））；Yonsei University（延世大学）；Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)（蔚山国家科学技术研究院（UNIST））；Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)（韩国科学技术院（KAIST））
In recent years, there are numerous works been proposed to leverage the techniques of deep learning to improve social-aware recommendation performance. In most cases, it requires a larger number of data to train a robust deep learning model, which contains a lot of parameters to fit training data. However, both data of user ratings and social networks are facing critical sparse problem, which makes it not easy to train a robust deep neural network model. Towards this problem, we propose a novel Correlative Denoising Autoencoder (CoDAE) method by taking correlations between users with multiple …
Like other social systems, in collaborative filtering a small number of "influential" users may have a large impact on the recommendations of other users, thus affecting the overall behavior of the system. Identifying influential users and studying their impact on other users is an important problem because it provides insight into how small groups can inadvertently or intentionally affect the behavior of the system as a whole. Modeling these influences can also shed light on patterns and relationships that would otherwise be difficult to discern, hopefully leading to more transparency in how …
Recommendation systems are perhaps one of the most important agents for industry growth through the modern Internet world. Previous approaches on recommendation systems include collaborative filtering and content based filtering recommendation systems. These 2 methods are disjointed in nature and require the continuous storage of user preferences for a better recommendation. To provide better integration of the two processes, we propose a hybrid recommendation system based on the integration of collaborative and content-based content, taking into account the top critic consensus and movie rati…
The aim of the recommender systems is to provide relevant and potentially interesting information to each user. This is fulfilled by utilizing the already recorded tendencies of similar users or detecting items similar to interested items of the user. Challenges such as data sparsity and cold start problem are addressed in recent studies. Utilizing social information not only enhances the prediction accuracy but also tackles the data sparseness challenges. In this paper, we investigate the impact of using direct and indirect trust information in a memory-based collaborative filtering recommend…
Faculty of Computer Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology（霍贾·纳西尔丁·图西工业大学计算机工程学院）；University of Bojnord（博季努尔德大学）
Nowadays, Recommender Systems have become a comprehensive system for helping and guiding users in a huge amount of data on the Internet. Collaborative Filtering offers to active users based on the rating of a set of users. One of the simplest and most comprehensible and successful models is to find users with a taste in recommender systems. In this model, with increasing number of users and items, the system is faced to scalability problem. On the other hand, improving system performance when there is little information available from ratings, that is important. In this paper, a hybrid recomme…
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）
Hybrid methods that utilize both content and rating information are commonly used in many recommender systems. However, most of them use either handcrafted features or the bag-of-words representation as a surrogate for the content information but they are neither effective nor natural enough. To address this problem, we develop a collaborative recurrent autoencoder (CRAE) which is a denoising recurrent autoencoder (DRAE) that models the generation of content sequences in the collaborative filtering (CF) setting. The model generalizes recent advances in recurrent deep learning from i.i.d. input…
EtsTur İstanbul（EtsTur 伊斯坦布尔）；Bilgisayar ve Bilişim Fakültesi İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi（伊斯坦布尔理工大学计算机与信息学院）；Bilgisayar Mühendisliği Bölümü Koç Üniversitesi（科奇大学计算机工程系）
Nowadays, people start to use online reservation systems to plan their vacations since they have vast amount of choices available. Selecting when and where to go from this large-scale options is getting harder. In addition, sometimes consumers can miss the better options due to the wealth of information to be found on the online reservation systems. In this sense, personalized services such as recommender systems play a crucial role in decision making. Two traditional recommendation techniques are content-based and collaborative filtering. While both methods have their advantages, they also ha…
A Collaborative Process Parameter Recommender System for Fleets of Networked Manufacturing Machines -- with Application to 3D Printing
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor（工业与运作工程系，密歇根大学，安娜堡）；Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor（机械工程系，密歇根大学，安娜堡）；Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles（托马斯·劳德计算机科学系，南加州大学，洛杉矶）
Recent emergence of high-throughput drug screening assays sparkled an intensive development of machine learning methods, including models for prediction of sensitivity of cancer cell lines to anti-cancer drugs, as well as methods for generation of potential drug candidates. However, a concept of generation of compounds with specific properties and simultaneous modeling of their efficacy against cancer cell lines has not been comprehensively explored. To address this need, we present VADEERS, a Variational Autoencoder-based Drug Efficacy Estimation Recommender System. The generation of compound…
