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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Cost-effective online multi-llm selection with versatile reward models

X Dai, J Li, X Liu, A Yu, J Lui - arxiv preprint arxiv:2405.16587, 2024 - arxiv.org
With the rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs), the diversity of multi-LLM
tasks and the variability in their pricing structures have become increasingly important, as …

CDCM: ChatGPT-aided diversity-aware causal model for interactive recommendation

X Wen, W Nie, J Liu, Y Su, Y Zhang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, interactive recommender systems (IRSs) have attracted extensive interest.
Existing IRSs are typically implemented with offline reinforcement learning (RL). They are …

Dual-channel representation consistent recommender for session-based new item recommendation

C Wang, J Zhu, A Li, Z Li, Y Wang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Session-Based Recommendations (SBR) have become a crucial branch in the
recommendation field. Usually, most previous SBR methods only recommend items existing …