A unified graph transformer for overcoming isolations in multi-modal recommendation

Z Yi, I Ounis - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
With the rapid development of online multimedia services, especially in e-commerce
platforms, there is a pressing need for personalised recommender systems that can …

Diffusion Models in Recommendation Systems: A Survey

TR Wei, Y Fang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.10548, 2025 - arxiv.org
Recommender systems remain an essential topic due to its wide application in various
domains and the business potential behind them. With the rise of deep learning, common …

EDGE-Rec: Efficient and Data-Guided Edge Diffusion For Recommender Systems Graphs

U Priyam, H Shah, E Botta - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.14689, 2024 - arxiv.org
Most recommender systems research focuses on binary historical user-item interaction
encodings to predict future interactions. User features, item features, and interaction …

Enhancing Recommender Systems: Deep Modality Alignment with Large Multi-Modal Encoders

Z Yi, Z Long, I Ounis, C Macdonald… - ACM Transactions on …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, the rapid growth of online multimedia services, such as e-commerce
platforms, has necessitated the development of personalised recommendation approaches …

Knowledge-enhanced multi-behaviour contrastive learning for effective recommendation

Z Meng, Z Yi, I Ounis - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Real-world recommendation scenarios usually need to handle diverse user-item interaction
behaviours, including page views, adding items into carts, and purchasing activities. The …

Distributionally Robust Graph Out-of-Distribution Recommendation via Diffusion Model

C Zhao, E Yang, Y Liang, J Zhao, G Guo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
The distributionally robust optimization (DRO)-based graph neural network methods
improve recommendation systems' out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization by optimizing the …

Flow Matching for Collaborative Filtering

C Liu, Y Zhang, J Wang, R Ying, J Caverlee - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the
underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches …

A Survey on Diffusion Models for Recommender Systems

J Lin, J Liu, J Zhu, Y **, C Liu, Y Zhang, Y Yu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
While traditional recommendation techniques have made significant strides in the past
decades, they still suffer from limited generalization performance caused by factors like …

S-Diff: An Anisotropic Diffusion Model for Collaborative Filtering in Spectral Domain

R **a, Y Cheng, Y Tang, X Liu, X Liu, L Wang… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recovering user preferences from user-item interaction matrices is a key challenge in
recommender systems. While diffusion models can sample and reconstruct preferences from …