Report on The Search Futures Workshop at ECIR 2024

L Azzopardi, CLA Clarke, P Kantor, B Mitra… - ACM SIGIR Forum, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The First Search Futures Workshop, in conjunction with the Fourty-sixth European
Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2024, looked into the future of search to ask …

Neural click models for recommender systems

M Shirokikh, I Shenbin, A Alekseev… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We develop and evaluate neural architectures to model the user behavior in recommender
systems (RS) inspired by click models for Web search but going beyond standard click …

Accounting for AI and Users Sha** One Another: The Role of Mathematical Models

S Dean, E Dong, M Jagadeesan, L Leqi - arxiv preprint arxiv:2404.12366, 2024 - arxiv.org
As AI systems enter into a growing number of societal domains, these systems increasingly
shape and are shaped by user preferences, opinions, and behaviors. However, the design …

Policy Design for Two-sided Platforms with Participation Dynamics

H Kiyohara, F Yao, S Dean - arxiv preprint arxiv:2502.01792, 2025 - arxiv.org
In two-sided platforms (eg, video streaming or e-commerce), viewers and providers engage
in interactive dynamics, where an increased provider population results in higher viewer …

User Response Modeling in Recommender Systems: A Survey

M Shirokikh, I Shenbin, A Alekseev… - Journal of Mathematical …, 2024 - Springer
Over the last several decades, recommender systems have become an integral part of both
our daily lives and the research frontier at machine learning. In this survey, we explore …

ITMPRec: Intention-based Targeted Multi-round Proactive Recommendation

Y Lian, C Song, T Ge - THE WEB CONFERENCE 2025 - openreview.net
Personalized user preference driven recommendations have seamlessly intertwined with
our daily lives. However, item providers may expect specific items to gradually increase their …

[PDF][PDF] Generative Information Retrieval

Y Tanga, R Zhanga, Z Renb, J Guoa, M de Rijkec - 2024 - generative-ir.github.io
Generative Information Retrieval - SIGIR 2024 tutorial – Section 3 Page 1 Generative
Information Retrieval SIGIR 2024 tutorial – Section 3 Yubao Tanga, Ruqing Zhanga, Zhaochun …