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Explainable Knowledge Tracing via Probabilistic Embeddings and Pattern-based Reasoning
Siyu Wu, Cong Xu, Wei Zhang
Knowledge Tracing (KT) models students' knowledge states based on learning interactions to predict performance. While deep learning-based KT models have boosted predictive accuracy…
ASPIRE: Make Spectral Graph Collaborative Filtering Great Again via Adaptive Filter Learning
Yunhang He, Cong Xu, Zhangchi Zhu +2
Graph filter design is central to spectral collaborative filtering, yet most existing methods rely on manually tuned hyperparameters rather than fully learnable filters. We show th…
Markovian Pre-Trained Transformer for Next-Item Recommendation
Cong Xu, Guoliang Li, Jun Wang +1
We introduce the Markovian Pre-trained Transformer (MPT) for next-item recommendation, a transferable model fully pre-trained on synthetic Markov chains, yet capable of achieving s…
Beyond Semantic Understanding: Preserving Collaborative Frequency Components in LLM-based Recommendation
Minhao Wang, Yunhang He, Cong Xu +4
Recommender systems in concert with Large Language Models (LLMs) present promising avenues for generating semantically-informed recommendations. However, LLM-based recommenders exh…
Pushing the Limits of Low-Bit Optimizers: A Focus on EMA Dynamics
Cong Xu, Wenbin Liang, Mo Yu +7
The rapid scaling of models has led to prohibitively high training and fine-tuning costs. A major factor accounting for memory consumption is the widespread use of stateful optimiz…
Collaborative Filtering Meets Spectrum Shift: Connecting User-Item Interaction with Graph-Structured Side Information
Yunhang He, Cong Xu, Jun Wang +1
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated their superiority in collaborative filtering, where the user-item (U-I) interaction bipartite graph serves as the fundamental data fo…
STAIR: Manipulating Collaborative and Multimodal Information for E-Commerce Recommendation
Cong Xu, Yunhang He, Jun Wang +1
While the mining of modalities is the focus of most multimodal recommendation methods, we believe that how to fully utilize both collaborative and multimodal information is pivotal…
Are LLM-based Recommenders Already the Best? Simple Scaled Cross-entropy Unleashes the Potential of Traditional Sequential Recommenders
Cong Xu, Zhangchi Zhu, Mo Yu +3
Large language models (LLMs) have been garnering increasing attention in the recommendation community. Some studies have observed that LLMs, when fine-tuned by the cross-entropy (C…
Understanding the Role of Cross-Entropy Loss in Fairly Evaluating Large Language Model-based Recommendation
Cong Xu, Zhangchi Zhu, Jun Wang +2
Large language models (LLMs) have gained much attention in the recommendation community; some studies have observed that LLMs, fine-tuned by the cross-entropy loss with a full soft…
Pattern-wise Transparent Sequential Recommendation
Kun Ma, Cong Xu, Zeyuan Chen +1
A transparent decision-making process is essential for developing reliable and trustworthy recommender systems. For sequential recommendation, it means that the model can identify…
Graph-enhanced Optimizers for Structure-aware Recommendation Embedding Evolution
Cong Xu, Jun Wang, Jianyong Wang +1
Embedding plays a key role in modern recommender systems because they are virtual representations of real-world entities and the foundation for subsequent decision-making models. I…