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20202026
most citedLearning to Ask Appropriate Questions in Conversational Recommendation

45 citations · 139 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.IR2026

Integrating Vision-Centric Text Understanding for Conversational Recommender Systems

Wei Yuan, Shutong Qiao, Tong Chen +3

Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have attracted growing attention for their ability to deliver personalized recommendations through natural language interactions. To more…

cs.LG2024

Physics-guided Active Sample Reweighting for Urban Flow Prediction

Wei Jiang, Tong Chen, Guanhua Ye +4

Urban flow prediction is a spatio-temporal modeling task that estimates the throughput of transportation services like buses, taxis, and ride-sharing, where data-driven models have…

cs.IR2024★ 7 cited

A Thorough Performance Benchmarking on Lightweight Embedding-based Recommender Systems

Hung Vinh Tran, Tong Chen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen +3

Since the creation of the Web, recommender systems (RSs) have been an indispensable mechanism in information filtering. State-of-the-art RSs primarily depend on categorical feature…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

Explicit Knowledge Graph Reasoning for Conversational Recommendation

Xuhui Ren, Tong Chen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen +3

Traditional recommender systems estimate user preference on items purely based on historical interaction records, thus failing to capture fine-grained yet dynamic user interests an…

cs.LG2023★ 4 cited

Semi-decentralized Federated Ego Graph Learning for Recommendation

Liang Qu, Ningzhi Tang, Ruiqi Zheng +4

Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems are typically trained based on personal interaction data (e.g., clicks and purchases) that could be naturally represented as…

cs.IR2022

Beyond Double Ascent via Recurrent Neural Tangent Kernel in Sequential Recommendation

Ruihong Qiu, Zi Huang, Hongzhi Yin

Overfitting has long been considered a common issue to large neural network models in sequential recommendation. In our study, an interesting phenomenon is observed that overfittin…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Self-supervised Graph-based Point-of-interest Recommendation

Yang Li, Tong Chen, Peng-Fei Zhang +2

The exponential growth of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) has greatly stimulated the demand for precise location-based recommendation services. Next Point-of-Interest (POI)…

cs.IR2022★ 35 cited

Self-Supervised Learning for Recommender Systems: A Survey

Junliang Yu, Hongzhi Yin, Xin Xia +3

In recent years, neural architecture-based recommender systems have achieved tremendous success, but they still fall short of expectation when dealing with highly sparse data. Self…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

DeHIN: A Decentralized Framework for Embedding Large-scale Heterogeneous Information Networks

Mubashir Imran, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen +2

Modeling heterogeneity by extraction and exploitation of high-order information from heterogeneous information networks (HINs) has been attracting immense research attention in rec…

cs.IR2021

PipAttack: Poisoning Federated Recommender Systems forManipulating Item Promotion

Shijie Zhang, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen +3

Due to the growing privacy concerns, decentralization emerges rapidly in personalized services, especially recommendation. Also, recent studies have shown that centralized models a…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

Learning Elastic Embeddings for Customizing On-Device Recommenders

Tong Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Yujia Zheng +3

In today's context, deploying data-driven services like recommendation on edge devices instead of cloud servers becomes increasingly attractive due to privacy and network latency c…

cs.IR2021★ 8 cited

Discovering Collaborative Signals for Next POI Recommendation with Iterative Seq2Graph Augmentation

Yang Li, Tong Chen, Yadan Luo +2

Being an indispensable component in location-based social networks, next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation recommends users unexplored POIs based on their recent visiting hist…

cs.AI2021★ 45 cited

Learning to Ask Appropriate Questions in Conversational Recommendation

Xuhui Ren, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen +3

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) have revolutionized the conventional recommendation paradigm by embracing dialogue agents to dynamically capture the fine-grained user pre…

cs.IR2021

Quaternion Factorization Machines: A Lightweight Solution to Intricate Feature Interaction Modelling

Tong Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Xiangliang Zhang +3

As a well-established approach, factorization machine (FM) is capable of automatically learning high-order interactions among features to make predictions without the need for manu…

cs.SI2021★ 2 cited

Uniting Heterogeneity, Inductiveness, and Efficiency for Graph Representation Learning

Tong Chen, Hongzhi Yin, Jie Ren +3

With the ubiquitous graph-structured data in various applications, models that can learn compact but expressive vector representations of nodes have become highly desirable. Recent…

cs.IR2021★ 5 cited

Graph Embedding for Recommendation against Attribute Inference Attacks

Shijie Zhang, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen +3

In recent years, recommender systems play a pivotal role in helping users identify the most suitable items that satisfy personal preferences. As user-item interactions can be natur…

cs.SI2020★ 8 cited

GCN-Based User Representation Learning for Unifying Robust Recommendation and Fraudster Detection

Shijie Zhang, Hongzhi Yin, Tong Chen +3

In recent years, recommender system has become an indispensable function in all e-commerce platforms. The review rating data for a recommender system typically comes from open plat…

cs.IR2020★ 17 cited

Enhancing Social Recommendation with Adversarial Graph Convolutional Networks

Junliang Yu, Hongzhi Yin, Jundong Li +3

Social recommender systems are expected to improve recommendation quality by incorporating social information when there is little user-item interaction data. However, recent repor…