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most citedDRFormer: Multi-Scale Transformer Utilizing Diverse Receptive Fields for Long Time-Series Forecasting

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8 papers

cs.IR2025

Rejuvenating Cross-Entropy Loss in Knowledge Distillation for Recommender Systems

Zhangchi Zhu, Wei Zhang

This paper analyzes Cross-Entropy (CE) loss in knowledge distillation (KD) for recommender systems. KD for recommender systems targets at distilling rankings, especially among item…

cs.CL2025

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…

cs.IR2024

Exploring Feature-based Knowledge Distillation for Recommender System: A Frequency Perspective

Zhangchi Zhu, Wei Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the feature-based knowledge distillation for recommendation from the frequency perspective. By defining knowledge as different frequency components of the…

cs.IR2024

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…

cs.LG2024★ 10 cited

DRFormer: Multi-Scale Transformer Utilizing Diverse Receptive Fields for Long Time-Series Forecasting

Ruixin Ding, Yuqi Chen, Yu-Ting Lan +1

Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) has been widely applied in finance, traffic prediction, and other domains. Recently, patch-based transformers have emerged as a promising a…

cs.IR2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.IR2024

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…

cs.IR2023

Preference-Consistent Knowledge Distillation for Recommender System

Zhangchi Zhu, Wei Zhang

Feature-based knowledge distillation has been applied to compress modern recommendation models, usually with projectors that align student (small) recommendation models' dimensions…