Reinforcement learning based recommender systems: A survey

MM Afsar, T Crump, B Far - ACM Computing Surveys, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems (RSs) have become an inseparable part of our everyday lives. They
help us find our favorite items to purchase, our friends on social networks, and our favorite …

Causal inference in recommender systems: A survey and future directions

C Gao, Y Zheng, W Wang, F Feng, X He… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have become crucial in information filtering nowadays. Existing
recommender systems extract user preferences based on the correlation in data, such as …

A survey of large language models

WX Zhao, K Zhou, J Li, T Tang, X Wang, Y Hou… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
Language is essentially a complex, intricate system of human expressions governed by
grammatical rules. It poses a significant challenge to develop capable AI algorithms for …

On generative agents in recommendation

A Zhang, Y Chen, L Sheng, X Wang… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are the cornerstone of today's information dissemination, yet a
disconnect between offline metrics and online performance greatly hinders their …

Conversational information seeking

H Zamani, JR Trippas, J Dalton… - … and Trends® in …, 2023‏ - nowpublishers.com
Conversational information seeking (CIS) is concerned with a sequence of interactions
between one or more users and an information system. Interactions in CIS are primarily …

[HTML][HTML] Deep reinforcement learning in recommender systems: A survey and new perspectives

X Chen, L Yao, J McAuley, G Zhou, X Wang - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2023‏ - Elsevier
In light of the emergence of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in recommender systems
research and several fruitful results in recent years, this survey aims to provide a timely and …

Leveraging large language models in conversational recommender systems

L Friedman, S Ahuja, D Allen, Z Tan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023‏ - arxiv.org
A Conversational Recommender System (CRS) offers increased transparency and control to
users by enabling them to engage with the system through a real-time multi-turn dialogue …

Challenges of real-world reinforcement learning: definitions, benchmarks and analysis

G Dulac-Arnold, N Levine, DJ Mankowitz, J Li… - Machine Learning, 2021‏ - Springer
Reinforcement learning (RL) has proven its worth in a series of artificial domains, and is
beginning to show some successes in real-world scenarios. However, much of the research …

KuaiRec: A fully-observed dataset and insights for evaluating recommender systems

C Gao, S Li, W Lei, J Chen, B Li, P Jiang, X He… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
The progress of recommender systems is hampered mainly by evaluation as it requires real-
time interactions between humans and systems, which is too laborious and expensive. This …

[HTML][HTML] A survey of recommender systems for energy efficiency in buildings: Principles, challenges and prospects

Y Himeur, A Alsalemi, A Al-Kababji, F Bensaali… - Information …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Recommender systems have significantly developed in recent years in parallel with the
witnessed advancements in both internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) …