On the opportunities and challenges of offline reinforcement learning for recommender systems

X Chen, S Wang, J McAuley, D Jannach… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Reinforcement learning serves as a potent tool for modeling dynamic user interests within
recommender systems, garnering increasing research attention of late. However, a …

Large language models are learnable planners for long-term recommendation

W Shi, X He, Y Zhang, C Gao, X Li, J Zhang… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Planning for both immediate and long-term benefits becomes increasingly important in
recommendation. Existing methods apply Reinforcement Learning (RL) to learn planning …

CIRS: Bursting filter bubbles by counterfactual interactive recommender system

C Gao, S Wang, S Li, J Chen, X He, W Lei, B Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Mitigating Recommendation Biases via Group-Alignment and Global-Uniformity in Representation Learning

M Cai, M Hou, L Chen, L Wu, H Bai, Y Li… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Collaborative Filtering (CF) plays a crucial role in modern recommender systems, leveraging
historical user-item interactions to provide personalized suggestions. However, CF-based …

Non-recursive cluster-scale graph interacted model for click-through rate prediction

Y Bei, H Chen, S Chen, X Huang, S Zhou… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Extracting users' interests from their behavior, particularly their 1-hop neighbors, has been
shown to enhance Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction performance. However, online …

EasyRL4Rec: An Easy-to-use Library for Reinforcement Learning Based Recommender Systems

Y Yu, C Gao, J Chen, H Tang, Y Sun, Q Chen… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Reinforcement Learning (RL)-Based Recommender Systems (RSs) have gained rising
attention for their potential to enhance long-term user engagement. However, research in …

CDR: Conservative doubly robust learning for debiased recommendation

Z Song, J Chen, S Zhou, Q Shi, Y Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In recommendation systems (RS), user behavior data is observational rather than
experimental, resulting in widespread bias in the data. Consequently, tackling bias has …

ReCRec: Reasoning the causes of implicit feedback for debiased recommendation

S Lin, S Zhou, J Chen, Y Feng, Q Shi, C Chen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Implicit feedback (eg, user clicks) is widely used in building recommender systems (RS).
However, the inherent notorious exposure bias significantly affects recommendation …

Distributionally Robust Graph-based Recommendation System

B Wang, J Chen, C Li, S Zhou, Q Shi, Y Gao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
With the capacity to capture high-order collaborative signals, Graph Neural Networks
(GNNs) have emerged as powerful methods in Recommender Systems (RS). However, their …

Meta clustering of neural bandits

Y Ban, Y Qi, T Wei, L Liu, J He - Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …