most citedExploitation Over Exploration: Unmasking the Bias in Linear Bandit Recommender Offline Evaluation

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cs.IR2026

The Bandit's Blind Spot: The Critical Role of User State Representation in Recommender Systems

Pedro R. Pires, Gregorio F. Azevedo, Rafael T. Sereicikas +2

With the increasing availability of online information, recommender systems have become an important tool for many web-based systems. Due to the continuous aspect of recommendation…

cs.IR2026

Learning Behaviorally Grounded Item Embeddings via Personalized Temporal Contexts

Rafael T. Sereicikas, Pedro R. Pires, Gregorio F. Azevedo +1

Effective user modeling requires distinguishing between short-term and long-term preference evolution. While item embeddings have become a key component of recommender systems, sta…

cs.IR2026

Collaborative Filtering Through Weighted Similarities of User and Item Embeddings

Pedro R. Pires, Rafael T. Sereicikas, Gregorio F. Azevedo +1

In recent years, neural networks and other complex models have dominated recommender systems, often setting new benchmarks for state-of-the-art performance. Yet, despite these adva…

cs.LG20261 cited

Exploitation Over Exploration: Unmasking the Bias in Linear Bandit Recommender Offline Evaluation

Pedro R. Pires, Gregorio F. Azevedo, Pietro L. Campos +2

Multi-Armed Bandit (MAB) algorithms are widely used in recommender systems that require continuous, incremental learning. A core aspect of MABs is the exploration-exploitation trad…

cs.IR2025

Interact2Vec -- An efficient neural network-based model for simultaneously learning users and items embeddings in recommender systems

Pedro R. Pires, Tiago A. Almeida

Over the past decade, recommender systems have experienced a surge in popularity. Despite notable progress, they grapple with challenging issues, such as high data dimensionality a…

eess.SY2025

Control of Renewable Energy Communities using AI and Real-World Data

Tiago Fonseca, Clarisse Sousa, Ricardo Venâncio +5

The electrification of transportation and the increased adoption of decentralized renewable energy generation have added complexity to managing Renewable Energy Communities (RECs).…