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most citedHow Do Recommendation Models Amplify Popularity Bias? An Analysis from the Spectral Perspective

20 citations · 66 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cs.IR2025★ 3 cited

Breaking the Top- Barrier: Advancing Top- Ranking Metrics Optimization in Recommender Systems

Weiqin Yang, Jiawei Chen, Shengjia Zhang +5

In the realm of recommender systems (RS), Top- ranking metrics such as NDCG@ are the gold standard for evaluating recommendation performance. However, during the training of…

cs.IR2025

Advancing Loss Functions in Recommender Systems: A Comparative Study with a Rényi Divergence-Based Solution

Shengjia Zhang, Jiawei Chen, Changdong Li +5

Loss functions play a pivotal role in optimizing recommendation models. Among various loss functions, Softmax Loss (SL) and Cosine Contrastive Loss (CCL) are particularly effective…

cs.IR2025

Breaker: Removing Shortcut Cues with User Clustering for Single-slot Recommendation System

Chao Wang, Yue Zheng, Yujing Zhang +5

In a single-slot recommendation system, users are only exposed to one item at a time, and the system cannot collect user feedback on multiple items simultaneously. Therefore, only…

cs.IR2025

MSL: Not All Tokens Are What You Need for Tuning LLM as a Recommender

Bohao Wang, Feng Liu, Jiawei Chen +7

Large language models (LLMs), known for their comprehension capabilities and extensive knowledge, have been increasingly applied to recommendation systems (RS). Given the fundament…

cs.IR2025★ 4 cited

Rankformer: A Graph Transformer for Recommendation based on Ranking Objective

Sirui Chen, Shen Han, Jiawei Chen +6

Recommender Systems (RS) aim to generate personalized ranked lists for each user and are evaluated using ranking metrics. Although personalized ranking is a fundamental aspect of R…

cs.LG2025

Uncertainty-Aware Graph Structure Learning

Shen Han, Zhiyao Zhou, Jiawei Chen +6

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become a prominent approach for learning from graph-structured data. However, their effectiveness can be significantly compromised when the graph…

cs.LG2024

PSL: Rethinking and Improving Softmax Loss from Pairwise Perspective for Recommendation

Weiqin Yang, Jiawei Chen, Xin Xin +5

Softmax Loss (SL) is widely applied in recommender systems (RS) and has demonstrated effectiveness. This work analyzes SL from a pairwise perspective, revealing two significant lim…

cs.LG2024

Towards Dynamic Graph Neural Networks with Provably High-Order Expressive Power

Zhe Wang, Tianjian Zhao, Zhen Zhang +5

Dynamic Graph Neural Networks (DyGNNs) have garnered increasing research attention for learning representations on evolving graphs. Despite their effectiveness, the limited express…

cs.IR2024

LLM4DSR: Leveraging Large Language Model for Denoising Sequential Recommendation

Bohao Wang, Feng Liu, Changwang Zhang +8

Sequential Recommenders generate recommendations based on users' historical interaction sequences. However, in practice, these collected sequences are often contaminated by noisy i…

cs.LG2024

Dynamic Graph Transformer with Correlated Spatial-Temporal Positional Encoding

Zhe Wang, Sheng Zhou, Jiawei Chen +5

Learning effective representations for Continuous-Time Dynamic Graphs (CTDGs) has garnered significant research interest, largely due to its powerful capabilities in modeling compl…

cs.LG2024

Motif-driven Subgraph Structure Learning for Graph Classification

Zhiyao Zhou, Sheng Zhou, Bochao Mao +5

To mitigate the suboptimal nature of graph structure, Graph Structure Learning (GSL) has emerged as a promising approach to improve graph structure and boost performance in downstr…

cs.IR2024★ 20 cited

How Do Recommendation Models Amplify Popularity Bias? An Analysis from the Spectral Perspective

Siyi Lin, Chongming Gao, Jiawei Chen +5

Recommendation Systems (RS) are often plagued by popularity bias. When training a recommendation model on a typically long-tailed dataset, the model tends to not only inherit this…

cs.IR2024

Distributionally Robust Graph-based Recommendation System

Bohao Wang, Jiawei Chen, Changdong Li +6

With the capacity to capture high-order collaborative signals, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as powerful methods in Recommender Systems (RS). However, their efficacy of…

cs.LG2024

Knowledge Translation: A New Pathway for Model Compression

Wujie Sun, Defang Chen, Jiawei Chen +3

Deep learning has witnessed significant advancements in recent years at the cost of increasing training, inference, and model storage overhead. While existing model compression met…

cs.IR2023

CDR: Conservative Doubly Robust Learning for Debiased Recommendation

ZiJie Song, JiaWei Chen, Sheng Zhou +4

In recommendation systems (RS), user behavior data is observational rather than experimental, resulting in widespread bias in the data. Consequently, tackling bias has emerged as a…

cs.LG2023★ 11 cited

OpenGSL: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Graph Structure Learning

Zhiyao Zhou, Sheng Zhou, Bochao Mao +7

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have emerged as the de facto standard for representation learning on graphs, owing to their ability to effectively integrate graph topology and node at…

cs.AI2023

Robust Sequence Networked Submodular Maximization

Qihao Shi, Bingyang Fu, Can Wang +4

In this paper, we study the \underline{R}obust \underline{o}ptimization for \underline{se}quence \underline{Net}worked \underline{s}ubmodular maximization (RoseNets) problem. We in…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Accelerating Diffusion Sampling with Classifier-based Feature Distillation

Wujie Sun, Defang Chen, Can Wang +3

Although diffusion model has shown great potential for generating higher quality images than GANs, slow sampling speed hinders its wide application in practice. Progressive distill…

cs.IR2022

GReS: Graphical Cross-domain Recommendation for Supply Chain Platform

Zhiwen Jing, Ziliang Zhao, Yang Feng +6

Supply Chain Platforms (SCPs) provide downstream industries with numerous raw materials. Compared with traditional e-commerce platforms, data in SCPs is more sparse due to limited…

cs.LG2022

Confidence-aware Self-Semantic Distillation on Knowledge Graph Embedding

Yichen Liu, Jiawei Chen, Defang Chen +3

Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE), which projects entities and relations into continuous vector spaces, has garnered significant attention. Although high-dimensional KGE methods offe…

cs.CV2022★ 14 cited

Knowledge Distillation with the Reused Teacher Classifier

Defang Chen, Jian-Ping Mei, Hailin Zhang +3

Knowledge distillation aims to compress a powerful yet cumbersome teacher model into a lightweight student model without much sacrifice of performance. For this purpose, various ap…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Online Adversarial Knowledge Distillation for Graph Neural Networks

Can Wang, Zhe Wang, Defang Chen +3

Knowledge distillation, a technique recently gaining popularity for enhancing model generalization in Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), operates under the assumption that both…

cs.CV2020★ 4 cited

Cross-Layer Distillation with Semantic Calibration

Defang Chen, Jian-Ping Mei, Yuan Zhang +3

Knowledge distillation is a technique to enhance the generalization ability of a student model by exploiting outputs from a teacher model. Recently, feature-map based variants expl…

cs.IR2020★ 2 cited

CoSam: An Efficient Collaborative Adaptive Sampler for Recommendation

Jiawei Chen, Chengquan Jiang, Can Wang +5

Sampling strategies have been widely applied in many recommendation systems to accelerate model learning from implicit feedback data. A typical strategy is to draw negative instanc…