On the opportunities and challenges of offline reinforcement learning for recommender systems
Reinforcement learning serves as a potent tool for modeling dynamic user interests within
recommender systems, garnering increasing research attention of late. However, a …
recommender systems, garnering increasing research attention of late. However, a …
Large language models are learnable planners for long-term recommendation
Planning for both immediate and long-term benefits becomes increasingly important in
recommendation. Existing methods apply Reinforcement Learning (RL) to learn planning …
recommendation. Existing methods apply Reinforcement Learning (RL) to learn planning …
CIRS: Bursting filter bubbles by counterfactual interactive recommender system
While personalization increases the utility of recommender systems, it also brings the issue
of filter bubbles. eg, if the system keeps exposing and recommending the items that the user …
of filter bubbles. eg, if the system keeps exposing and recommending the items that the user …
Mitigating Recommendation Biases via Group-Alignment and Global-Uniformity in Representation Learning
Collaborative Filtering (CF) plays a crucial role in modern recommender systems, leveraging
historical user-item interactions to provide personalized suggestions. However, CF-based …
historical user-item interactions to provide personalized suggestions. However, CF-based …
Non-recursive cluster-scale graph interacted model for click-through rate prediction
Extracting users' interests from their behavior, particularly their 1-hop neighbors, has been
shown to enhance Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction performance. However, online …
shown to enhance Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction performance. However, online …
EasyRL4Rec: An Easy-to-use Library for Reinforcement Learning Based Recommender Systems
Reinforcement Learning (RL)-Based Recommender Systems (RSs) have gained rising
attention for their potential to enhance long-term user engagement. However, research in …
attention for their potential to enhance long-term user engagement. However, research in …
CDR: Conservative doubly robust learning for debiased recommendation
In recommendation systems (RS), user behavior data is observational rather than
experimental, resulting in widespread bias in the data. Consequently, tackling bias has …
experimental, resulting in widespread bias in the data. Consequently, tackling bias has …
ReCRec: Reasoning the causes of implicit feedback for debiased recommendation
Implicit feedback (eg, user clicks) is widely used in building recommender systems (RS).
However, the inherent notorious exposure bias significantly affects recommendation …
However, the inherent notorious exposure bias significantly affects recommendation …
Distributionally Robust Graph-based Recommendation System
With the capacity to capture high-order collaborative signals, Graph Neural Networks
(GNNs) have emerged as powerful methods in Recommender Systems (RS). However, their …
(GNNs) have emerged as powerful methods in Recommender Systems (RS). However, their …
Meta clustering of neural bandits
The contextual bandit has been identified as a powerful framework to formulate the
recommendation process as a sequential decision-making process, where each item is …
recommendation process as a sequential decision-making process, where each item is …