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20182024
most citedLearning to Warm Up Cold Item Embeddings for Cold-start Recommendation with Meta Scaling and Shifting Networks

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cs.IR2024

DFGNN: Dual-frequency Graph Neural Network for Sign-aware Feedback

Yiqing Wu, Ruobing Xie, Zhao Zhang +5

The graph-based recommendation has achieved great success in recent years. However, most existing graph-based recommendations focus on capturing user preference based on positive e…

cs.IR2024

ID-centric Pre-training for Recommendation

Yiqing Wu, Ruobing Xie, Zhao Zhang +5

Classical sequential recommendation models generally adopt ID embeddings to store knowledge learned from user historical behaviors and represent items. However, these unique IDs ar…

cs.IR2024

Plug-in Diffusion Model for Sequential Recommendation

Haokai Ma, Ruobing Xie, Lei Meng +4

Pioneering efforts have verified the effectiveness of the diffusion models in exploring the informative uncertainty for recommendation. Considering the difference between recommend…

cs.IR2024

Curriculum-scheduled Knowledge Distillation from Multiple Pre-trained Teachers for Multi-domain Sequential Recommendation

Wenqi Sun, Ruobing Xie, Junjie Zhang +3

Pre-trained recommendation models (PRMs) have received increasing interest recently. However, their intrinsically heterogeneous model structure, huge model size and computation cos…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

AgentCF: Collaborative Learning with Autonomous Language Agents for Recommender Systems

Junjie Zhang, Yupeng Hou, Ruobing Xie +5

Recently, there has been an emergence of employing LLM-powered agents as believable human proxies, based on their remarkable decision-making capability. However, existing studies m…

cs.IR2023

Learning from All Sides: Diversified Positive Augmentation via Self-distillation in Recommendation

Chong Liu, Xiaoyang Liu, Ruobing Xie +3

Personalized recommendation relies on user historical behaviors to provide user-interested items, and thus seriously struggles with the data sparsity issue. A powerful positive ite…

cs.IR2023★ 25 cited

Recommendation as Instruction Following: A Large Language Model Empowered Recommendation Approach

Junjie Zhang, Ruobing Xie, Yupeng Hou +3

In the past decades, recommender systems have attracted much attention in both research and industry communities, and a large number of studies have been devoted to developing effe…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

Triple Sequence Learning for Cross-domain Recommendation

Haokai Ma, Ruobing Xie, Lei Meng +4

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to leverage the correlation of users' behaviors in both the source and target domains to improve the user preference modeling in the target d…

cs.IR2022

Reweighting Clicks with Dwell Time in Recommendation

Ruobing Xie, Lin Ma, Shaoliang Zhang +2

The click behavior is the most widely-used user positive feedback in recommendation. However, simply considering each click equally in training may suffer from clickbaits and title…

cs.IR2022

UFNRec: Utilizing False Negative Samples for Sequential Recommendation

Xiaoyang Liu, Chong Liu, Pinzheng Wang +5

Sequential recommendation models are primarily optimized to distinguish positive samples from negative ones during training in which negative sampling serves as an essential compon…

cs.IR2022

Multi-granularity Item-based Contrastive Recommendation

Ruobing Xie, Zhijie Qiu, Bo Zhang +1

Contrastive learning (CL) has shown its power in recommendation. However, most CL-based recommendation models build their CL tasks merely focusing on the user's aspects, ignoring t…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Personalized Prompt for Sequential Recommendation

Yiqing Wu, Ruobing Xie, Yongchun Zhu +4

Pre-training models have shown their power in sequential recommendation. Recently, prompt has been widely explored and verified for tuning in NLP pre-training, which could help to…

cs.IR2022

Selective Fairness in Recommendation via Prompts

Yiqing Wu, Ruobing Xie, Yongchun Zhu +5

Recommendation fairness has attracted great attention recently. In real-world systems, users usually have multiple sensitive attributes (e.g. age, gender, and occupation), and user…

cs.IR2022

Multi-view Multi-behavior Contrastive Learning in Recommendation

Yiqing Wu, Ruobing Xie, Yongchun Zhu +6

Multi-behavior recommendation (MBR) aims to jointly consider multiple behaviors to improve the target behavior's performance. We argue that MBR models should: (1) model the coarse-…

cs.IR2021★ 15 cited

CT4Rec: Simple yet Effective Consistency Training for Sequential Recommendation

Chong Liu, Xiaoyang Liu, Rongqin Zheng +6

Sequential recommendation methods are increasingly important in cutting-edge recommender systems. Through leveraging historical records, the systems can capture user interests and…

cs.IR2021★ 4 cited

Contrastive Cross-domain Recommendation in Matching

Ruobing Xie, Qi Liu, Liangdong Wang +3

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to provide better recommendation results in the target domain with the help of the source domain, which is widely used and explored in real-w…

cs.IR2021★ 14 cited

Personalized Transfer of User Preferences for Cross-domain Recommendation

Yongchun Zhu, Zhenwei Tang, Yudan Liu +5

Cold-start problem is still a very challenging problem in recommender systems. Fortunately, the interactions of the cold-start users in the auxiliary source domain can help cold-st…

cs.IR2021★ 40 cited

Learning to Expand Audience via Meta Hybrid Experts and Critics for Recommendation and Advertising

Yongchun Zhu, Yudan Liu, Ruobing Xie +6

In recommender systems and advertising platforms, marketers always want to deliver products, contents, or advertisements to potential audiences over media channels such as display,…

cs.IR2021★ 130 cited

Learning to Warm Up Cold Item Embeddings for Cold-start Recommendation with Meta Scaling and Shifting Networks

Yongchun Zhu, Ruobing Xie, Fuzhen Zhuang +5

Recently, embedding techniques have achieved impressive success in recommender systems. However, the embedding techniques are data demanding and suffer from the cold-start problem.…

cs.IR2021★ 122 cited

Transfer-Meta Framework for Cross-domain Recommendation to Cold-Start Users

Yongchun Zhu, Kaikai Ge, Fuzhen Zhuang +5

Cold-start problems are enormous challenges in practical recommender systems. One promising solution for this problem is cross-domain recommendation (CDR) which leverages rich info…

cs.IR2021★ 4 cited

Long Short-Term Temporal Meta-learning in Online Recommendation

Ruobing Xie, Yalong Wang, Rui Wang +4

An effective online recommendation system should jointly capture users' long-term and short-term preferences in both users' internal behaviors (from the target recommendation task)…

cs.IR2021★ 14 cited

UPRec: User-Aware Pre-training for Recommender Systems

Chaojun Xiao, Ruobing Xie, Yuan Yao +4

Existing sequential recommendation methods rely on large amounts of training data and usually suffer from the data sparsity problem. To tackle this, the pre-training mechanism has…

cs.IR2021★ 3 cited

Improving Accuracy and Diversity in Matching of Recommendation with Diversified Preference Network

Ruobing Xie, Qi Liu, Shukai Liu +4

Recently, real-world recommendation systems need to deal with millions of candidates. It is extremely challenging to conduct sophisticated end-to-end algorithms on the entire corpu…

cs.IR2020★ 2 cited

Knowledge Transfer via Pre-training for Recommendation: A Review and Prospect

Zheni Zeng, Chaojun Xiao, Yuan Yao +5

Recommender systems aim to provide item recommendations for users, and are usually faced with data sparsity problem (e.g., cold start) in real-world scenarios. Recently pre-trained…