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most citedMixRec: Individual and Collective Mixing Empowers Data Augmentation for Recommender Systems

9 citations · 17 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.IR2026

UniRank: Benchmarking Ranking Models for Unified Sequential Modeling and Feature Interaction

Honghao Li, Xianquan Wang, Zibin Zhang +3

Ranking is a core stage in online advertising and recommender systems. Modern ranking models increasingly unify sequential modeling and feature interaction, yet many advances rely…

cs.IR2026

ProMax: Exploring the Potential of LLM-derived Profiles with Distribution Shaping for Recommender Systems

Yi Zhang, Yiwen Zhang, Kai Zheng +2

The remarkable text understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have revitalized the field of general recommendation based on implicit user feedback.…

cs.LG2026

FreeScale: Distributed Training for Sequence Recommendation Models with Minimal Scaling Cost

Chenhao Feng, Haoli Zhang, Shakhzod Ali-Zade +17

Modern industrial Deep Learning Recommendation Models typically extract user preferences through the analysis of sequential interaction histories, subsequently generating predictio…

cs.IR2026

Disagreement as Signals: Dual-view Calibration for Sequential Recommendation Denoising

Sijia Li, Min Gao, Zongwei Wang +3

Sequential recommendation seeks to model the evolution of user interests by capturing temporal user intent and item-level transition patterns. Transformer-based recommenders demons…

cs.CV2026

MASS: Mesh-inellipse Aligned Deformable Surfel Splatting for Hand Reconstruction and Rendering from Egocentric Monocular Video

Haoyu Zhu, Yi Zhang, Lei Yao +2

Reconstructing high-fidelity 3D hands from egocentric monocular videos remains a challenge due to the limitations in capturing high-resolution geometry, hand-object interactions, a…

cs.IR2026

Efficient Sequential Recommendation for Long Term User Interest Via Personalization

Qiang Zhang, Hanchao Yu, Ivan Ji +14

Recent years have witnessed success of sequential modeling, generative recommender, and large language model for recommendation. Though the scaling law has been validated for seque…

cs.IR2025

ProEx: A Unified Framework Leveraging Large Language Model with Profile Extrapolation for Recommendation

Yi Zhang, Yiwen Zhang, Yu Wang +2

The powerful text understanding and generation capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have brought new vitality to general recommendation with implicit feedback. One possible…

cs.IR2025

Multimodal Large Language Models with Adaptive Preference Optimization for Sequential Recommendation

Yu Wang, Yonghui Yang, Le Wu +3

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have opened new avenues for sequential recommendation by enabling natural language reasoning over user behavior sequences. A common…

cs.IR2025

Revisiting Feature Interactions from the Perspective of Quadratic Neural Networks for Click-through Rate Prediction

Honghao Li, Yiwen Zhang, Yi Zhang +2

Hadamard Product (HP) has long been a cornerstone in click-through rate (CTR) prediction tasks due to its simplicity, effectiveness, and ability to capture feature interactions wit…

cs.IR2025

Quadratic Interest Network for Multimodal Click-Through Rate Prediction

Honghao Li, Hanwei Li, Jing Zhang +4

Multimodal click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a key technique in industrial recommender systems. It leverages heterogeneous modalities such as text, images, and behavioral logs…

cs.IR2025

Towards Distribution Matching between Collaborative and Language Spaces for Generative Recommendation

Yi Zhang, Yiwen Zhang, Yu Wang +2

Generative recommendation aims to learn the underlying generative process over the entire item set to produce recommendations for users. Although it leverages non-linear probabilis…

cs.IR2025

Unveiling Contrastive Learning's Capability of Neighborhood Aggregation for Collaborative Filtering

Yu Zhang, Yiwen Zhang, Yi Zhang +2

Personalized recommendation is widely used in the web applications, and graph contrastive learning (GCL) has gradually become a dominant approach in recommender systems, primarily…

cs.IR2025

Intent Representation Learning with Large Language Model for Recommendation

Yu Wang, Lei Sang, Yi Zhang +1

Intent-based recommender systems have garnered significant attention for uncovering latent fine-grained preferences. Intents, as underlying factors of interactions, are crucial for…

cs.IR2025★ 9 cited

MixRec: Individual and Collective Mixing Empowers Data Augmentation for Recommender Systems

Yi Zhang, Yiwen Zhang

The core of the general recommender systems lies in learning high-quality embedding representations of users and items to investigate their positional relations in the feature spac…

cs.IR2024

From Collapse to Stability: A Knowledge-Driven Ensemble Framework for Scaling Up Click-Through Rate Prediction Models

Honghao Li, Lei Sang, Yi Zhang +2

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction plays a crucial role in modern recommender systems. While many existing methods utilize ensemble networks to improve CTR model performance, they…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Intent-guided Heterogeneous Graph Contrastive Learning for Recommendation

Lei Sang, Yu Wang, Yi Zhang +2

Contrastive Learning (CL)-based recommender systems have gained prominence in the context of Heterogeneous Graph (HG) due to their capacity to enhance the consistency of representa…

cs.IR2024

Adaptive Fusion Self-supervised Learning for Recommendation

Yu Zhang, Lei Sang, Yi Zhang +2

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has recently attracted significant attention in the field of recommender systems. Contrastive learning (CL) stands out as a major SSL paradigm due to…

cs.IR2024★ 5 cited

FCN: Fusing Exponential and Linear Cross Network for Click-Through Rate Prediction

Honghao Li, Yiwen Zhang, Yi Zhang +3

As an important modeling paradigm in click-through rate (CTR) prediction, the Deep & Cross Network (DCN) and its derivative models have gained widespread recognition primarily due…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

Exploring the Individuality and Collectivity of Intents behind Interactions for Graph Collaborative Filtering

Yi Zhang, Lei Sang, Yiwen Zhang

Intent modeling has attracted widespread attention in recommender systems. As the core motivation behind user selection of items, intent is crucial for elucidating recommendation r…

cs.IR2024

Dual-domain Collaborative Denoising for Social Recommendation

Wenjie Chen, Yi Zhang, Honghao Li +2

Social recommendation leverages social network to complement user-item interaction data for recommendation task, aiming to mitigate the data sparsity issue in recommender systems.…

cs.IR2024

TF4CTR: Twin Focus Framework for CTR Prediction via Adaptive Sample Differentiation

Honghao Li, Qiuze Ru, Yiwen Zhang +3

Effective feature interaction modeling is critical for enhancing the accuracy of click-through rate (CTR) prediction in industrial recommender systems. Most of the current deep CTR…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Generative-Contrastive Heterogeneous Graph Neural Network

Yu Wang, Lei Sang, Yi Zhang +2

Heterogeneous Graphs (HGs) effectively model complex relationships in the real world through multi-type nodes and edges. In recent years, inspired by self-supervised learning (SSL)…

cs.IR2023

CETN: Contrast-enhanced Through Network for CTR Prediction

Honghao Li, Lei Sang, Yi Zhang +2

Click-through rate (CTR) Prediction is a crucial task in personalized information retrievals, such as industrial recommender systems, online advertising, and web search. Most exist…