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cs.IR2026

Hesitation and Tolerance in Recommender Systems

Kuan Zou, Aixin Sun, Yitong Ji +5

Users' interactions with recommender systems often involve more than simple acceptance or rejection. We highlight two overlooked states: hesitation, when people deliberate without…

cs.IR2026

OneTrans: Unified Feature Interaction and Sequence Modeling with One Transformer in Industrial Recommender

Zhaoqi Zhang, Haolei Pei, Jun Guo +5

In recommendation systems, scaling up feature-interaction modules (e.g., Wukong, RankMixer) or user-behavior sequence modules (e.g., LONGER) has achieved notable success. However,…

cs.IR2025

A Survey of Real-World Recommender Systems: Challenges, Constraints, and Industrial Perspectives

Kuan Zou, Aixin Sun

Recommender systems have generated tremendous value for both users and businesses, drawing significant attention from academia and industry alike. However, due to practical constra…

cs.IR2025

Does Multimodality Improve Recommender Systems as Expected? A Critical Analysis and Future Directions

Hongyu Zhou, Yinan Zhang, Aixin Sun +1

Multimodal recommendation systems are increasingly popular for their potential to improve performance by integrating diverse data types. However, the actual benefits of this integr…

cs.IR2025

Towards Storage-Efficient Visual Document Retrieval: An Empirical Study on Reducing Patch-Level Embeddings

Yubo Ma, Jinsong Li, Yuhang Zang +8

Despite the strong performance of ColPali/ColQwen2 in Visualized Document Retrieval (VDR), it encodes each page into multiple patch-level embeddings and leads to excessive memory u…

cs.IR2024

Knowledge-Enhanced Conversational Recommendation via Transformer-based Sequential Modelling

Jie Zou, Aixin Sun, Cheng Long +1

In conversational recommender systems (CRSs), conversations usually involve a set of items and item-related entities or attributes, e.g., director is a related entity of a movie. T…