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cs.IR2025

Generative Ghost: Investigating Ranking Bias Hidden in AI-Generated Videos

Haowen Gao, Liang Pang, Shicheng Xu +4

With the rapid development of AI-generated content (AIGC), the creation of high-quality AI-generated videos has become faster and easier, resulting in the Internet being flooded wi…

cs.IR2025

Personalized Denoising Implicit Feedback for Robust Recommender System

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Yunfan Wu +3

While implicit feedback is foundational to modern recommender systems, factors such as human error, uncertainty, and ambiguity in user behavior inevitably introduce significant noi…

cs.IR2024

Understanding and Improving Adversarial Collaborative Filtering for Robust Recommendation

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Yunfan Wu +3

Adversarial Collaborative Filtering (ACF), which typically applies adversarial perturbations at user and item embeddings through adversarial training, is widely recognized as an ef…

cs.IR2024★ 9 cited

Improving the Shortest Plank: Vulnerability-Aware Adversarial Training for Robust Recommender System

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Yunfan Wu +3

Recommender systems play a pivotal role in mitigating information overload in various fields. Nonetheless, the inherent openness of these systems introduces vulnerabilities, allowi…

cs.IR2024

List-aware Reranking-Truncation Joint Model for Search and Retrieval-augmented Generation

Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Jun Xu +2

The results of information retrieval (IR) are usually presented in the form of a ranked list of candidate documents, such as web search for humans and retrieval-augmented generatio…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

LoRec: Large Language Model for Robust Sequential Recommendation against Poisoning Attacks

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Yunfan Wu +3

Sequential recommender systems stand out for their ability to capture users' dynamic interests and the patterns of item-to-item transitions. However, the inherent openness of seque…

cs.IR2023

Plot Retrieval as an Assessment of Abstract Semantic Association

Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Jiangnan Li +5

Retrieving relevant plots from the book for a query is a critical task, which can improve the reading experience and efficiency of readers. Readers usually only give an abstract an…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

Invisible Relevance Bias: Text-Image Retrieval Models Prefer AI-Generated Images

Shicheng Xu, Danyang Hou, Liang Pang +4

With the advancement of generation models, AI-generated content (AIGC) is becoming more realistic, flooding the Internet. A recent study suggests that this phenomenon causes source…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

Robust Recommender System: A Survey and Future Directions

Kaike Zhang, Qi Cao, Fei Sun +4

With the rapid growth of information, recommender systems have become integral for providing personalized suggestions and overcoming information overload. However, their practical…

cs.IR2023

BERM: Training the Balanced and Extractable Representation for Matching to Improve Generalization Ability of Dense Retrieval

Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Huawei Shen +1

Dense retrieval has shown promise in the first-stage retrieval process when trained on in-domain labeled datasets. However, previous studies have found that dense retrieval is hard…

cs.IR2023★ 4 cited

Popularity Debiasing from Exposure to Interaction in Collaborative Filtering

Yuanhao Liu, Qi Cao, Huawei Shen +3

Recommender systems often suffer from popularity bias, where popular items are overly recommended while sacrificing unpopular items. Existing researches generally focus on ensuring…

cs.IR2023★ 1 cited

Adversarial Learning Data Augmentation for Graph Contrastive Learning in Recommendation

Junjie Huang, Qi Cao, Ruobing Xie +4

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) achieve remarkable success in Recommendation. To reduce the influence of data sparsity, Graph Contrastive Learning (GCL) is adopted in GNN-ba…

cs.IR2022★ 2 cited

NIR-Prompt: A Multi-task Generalized Neural Information Retrieval Training Framework

Shicheng Xu, Liang Pang, Huawei Shen +1

Information retrieval aims to find information that meets users' needs from the corpus. Different needs correspond to different IR tasks such as document retrieval, open-domain que…

cs.IR2021★ 21 cited

INMO: A Model-Agnostic and Scalable Module for Inductive Collaborative Filtering

Yunfan Wu, Qi Cao, Huawei Shen +2

Collaborative filtering is one of the most common scenarios and popular research topics in recommender systems. Among existing methods, latent factor models, i.e., learning a speci…