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Federated Conversational Recommender System
Allen Lin, Jianling Wang, Ziwei Zhu +1
Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs) have become increasingly popular as a powerful tool for providing personalized recommendation experiences. By directly engaging with users…
Flow Matching for Collaborative Filtering
Chengkai Liu, Yangtian Zhang, Jianling Wang +2
Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches strug…
Cold-Start Recommendation towards the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs): A Comprehensive Survey and Roadmap
Weizhi Zhang, Yuanchen Bei, Liangwei Yang +15
Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recomm…
TwinCL: A Twin Graph Contrastive Learning Model for Collaborative Filtering
Chengkai Liu, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
In the domain of recommendation and collaborative filtering, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) has become an influential approach. Nevertheless, the reasons for the effectiveness of…
Behavior-Dependent Linear Recurrent Units for Efficient Sequential Recommendation
Chengkai Liu, Jianghao Lin, Hanzhou Liu +2
Sequential recommender systems aims to predict the users' next interaction through user behavior modeling with various operators like RNNs and attentions. However, existing models…
Countering Mainstream Bias via End-to-End Adaptive Local Learning
Jinhao Pan, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang +2
Collaborative filtering (CF) based recommendations suffer from mainstream bias -- where mainstream users are favored over niche users, leading to poor recommendation quality for ma…
Mamba4Rec: Towards Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Selective State Space Models
Chengkai Liu, Jianghao Lin, Jianling Wang +2
Sequential recommendation aims to estimate the dynamic user preferences and sequential dependencies among historical user behaviors. Although Transformer-based models have proven t…
Large Language Models as Data Augmenters for Cold-Start Item Recommendation
Jianling Wang, Haokai Lu, James Caverlee +2
The reasoning and generalization capabilities of LLMs can help us better understand user preferences and item characteristics, offering exciting prospects to enhance recommendation…
Fresh Content Needs More Attention: Multi-funnel Fresh Content Recommendation
Jianling Wang, Haokai Lu, Sai zhang +10
Recommendation system serves as a conduit connecting users to an incredibly large, diverse and ever growing collection of contents. In practice, missing information on fresh (and t…
Enhancing User Personalization in Conversational Recommenders
Allen Lin, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang +1
Conversational recommenders are emerging as a powerful tool to personalize a user's recommendation experience. Through a back-and-forth dialogue, users can quickly hone in on just…
Closed-book Question Generation via Contrastive Learning
Xiangjue Dong, Jiaying Lu, Jianling Wang +1
Question Generation (QG) is a fundamental NLP task for many downstream applications. Recent studies on open-book QG, where supportive answer-context pairs are provided to models, h…
Towards Fair Conversational Recommender Systems
Allen Lin, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang +1
Conversational recommender systems have demonstrated great success. They can accurately capture a user's current detailed preference -- through a multi-round interaction cycle -- t…
Quantifying and Mitigating Popularity Bias in Conversational Recommender Systems
Allen Lin, Jianling Wang, Ziwei Zhu +1
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have shown great success in accurately capturing a user's current and detailed preference through the multi-round interaction cycle while e…
Learning to Augment for Casual User Recommendation
Jianling Wang, Ya Le, Bo Chang +3
Users who come to recommendation platforms are heterogeneous in activity levels. There usually exists a group of core users who visit the platform regularly and consume a large bod…
Session-based Recommendation with Hypergraph Attention Networks
Jianling Wang, Kaize Ding, Ziwei Zhu +1
Session-based recommender systems aim to improve recommendations in short-term sessions that can be found across many platforms. A critical challenge is to accurately model user in…
Graph Prototypical Networks for Few-shot Learning on Attributed Networks
Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, Jundong Li +3
Attributed networks nowadays are ubiquitous in a myriad of high-impact applications, such as social network analysis, financial fraud detection, and drug discovery. As a central an…
A Hierarchical Self-Attentive Model for Recommending User-Generated Item Lists
Yun He, Jianling Wang, Wei Niu +1
User-generated item lists are a popular feature of many different platforms. Examples include lists of books on Goodreads, playlists on Spotify and YouTube, collections of images o…
Fairness-Aware Recommendation of Information Curators
Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang, Yin Zhang +1
This paper highlights our ongoing efforts to create effective information curator recommendation models that can be personalized for individual users, while maintaining important f…