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20202025
most citedDiversification in Session-based News Recommender Systems

32 citations · 67 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.LG2025

Oxytrees: Model Trees for Bipartite Learning

Pedro Ilídio, Felipe Kenji Nakano, Alireza Gharahighehi +3

Bipartite learning is a machine learning task that aims to predict interactions between pairs of instances. It has been applied to various domains, including drug-target interactio…

cs.IR2025

Pairwise and Attribute-Aware Decision Tree-Based Preference Elicitation for Cold-Start Recommendation

Alireza Gharahighehi, Felipe Kenji Nakano, Xuehua Yang +2

Recommender systems (RSs) are intelligent filtering methods that suggest items to users based on their inferred preferences, derived from their interaction history on the platform.…

cs.CY2025

Enhancing Collaborative Filtering-Based Course Recommendations by Exploiting Time-to-Event Information with Survival Analysis

Alireza Gharahighehi, Achilleas Ghinis, Michela Venturini +2

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are emerging as a popular alternative to traditional education, offering learners the flexibility to access a wide range of courses from various…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Label Cluster Chains for Multi-Label Classification

Elaine Cecília Gatto, Felipe Nakano Kenji, Jesse Read +3

Multi-label classification is a type of supervised machine learning that can simultaneously assign multiple labels to an instance. To solve this task, some methods divide the origi…

cs.IR2023

HypeRS: Building a Hypergraph-driven ensemble Recommender System

Alireza Gharahighehi, Celine Vens, Konstantinos Pliakos

Recommender systems are designed to predict user preferences over collections of items. These systems process users' previous interactions to decide which items should be ranked hi…

cs.LG2022

Predicting Survival Outcomes in the Presence of Unlabeled Data

Fateme Nateghi Haredasht, Celine Vens

Many clinical studies require the follow-up of patients over time. This is challenging: apart from frequently observed drop-out, there are often also organizational and financial c…

cs.LG2022

Hierarchy exploitation to detect missing annotations on hierarchical multi-label classification

Miguel Romero, Felipe Kenji Nakano, Jorge Finke +2

The availability of genomic data has grown exponentially in the last decade, mainly due to the development of new sequencing technologies. Based on the interactions between genes (…

cs.IR2022

An Adaptive Hybrid Active Learning Strategy with Free Ratings in Collaborative Filtering

Alireza Gharahighehi, Felipe Kenji Nakano, Celine Vens

Recommender systems are information retrieval methods that predict user preferences to personalize services. These systems use the feedback and the ratings provided by users to mod…

cs.LG2022

BELLATREX: Building Explanations through a LocaLly AccuraTe Rule EXtractor

Klest Dedja, Felipe Kenji Nakano, Konstantinos Pliakos +1

Tree-ensemble algorithms, such as random forest, are effective machine learning methods popular for their flexibility, high performance, and robustness to overfitting. However, sin…

cs.IR2021★ 32 cited

Diversification in Session-based News Recommender Systems

Alireza Gharahighehi, Celine Vens

Recommender systems are widely applied in digital platforms such as news websites to personalize services based on user preferences. In news websites most of users are anonymous an…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Drug-Target Interaction Prediction via an Ensemble of Weighted Nearest Neighbors with Interaction Recovery

Bin Liu, Konstantinos Pliakos, Celine Vens +1

Predicting drug-target interactions (DTI) via reliable computational methods is an effective and efficient way to mitigate the enormous costs and time of the drug discovery process…

cs.IR2020

Fair Multi-Stakeholder News Recommender System with Hypergraph ranking

Alireza Gharahighehi, Celine Vens, Konstantinos Pliakos

Recommender systems are typically designed to fulfill end user needs. However, in some domains the users are not the only stakeholders in the system. For instance, in a news aggreg…

cs.LG2020★ 32 cited

Deep tree-ensembles for multi-output prediction

Felipe Kenji Nakano, Konstantinos Pliakos, Celine Vens

Recently, deep neural networks have expanded the state-of-art in various scientific fields and provided solutions to long standing problems across multiple application domains. Nev…