A survey on variational autoencoders in recommender systems

S Liang, Z Pan, W Liu, J Yin, M De Rijke - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems have become an important instrument to connect people to
information. Sparse, complex, and rapidly growing data presents new challenges to …

Diffusion recommender model

W Wang, Y Xu, F Feng, X Lin, X He… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Variational Auto-
Encoders (VAEs) are widely utilized to model the generative process of user interactions …

Robust recommender system: a survey and future directions

K Zhang, Q Cao, F Sun, Y Wu, S Tao, H Shen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
With the rapid growth of information, recommender systems have become integral for
providing personalized suggestions and overcoming information overload. However, their …

Towards representation alignment and uniformity in collaborative filtering

C Wang, Y Yu, W Ma, M Zhang, C Chen, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the 28th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Collaborative filtering (CF) plays a critical role in the development of recommender systems.
Most CF methods utilize an encoder to embed users and items into the same representation …

[LLIBRE][B] Synthetic data for deep learning

SI Nikolenko - 2021 - Springer
You are holding in your hands… oh, come on, who holds books like this in their hands
anymore? Anyway, you are reading this, and it means that I have managed to release one of …

SimpleX: A simple and strong baseline for collaborative filtering

K Mao, J Zhu, J Wang, Q Dai, Z Dong, X **ao… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Collaborative filtering (CF) is a widely studied research topic in recommender systems. The
learning of a CF model generally depends on three major components, namely interaction …

Generative-contrastive graph learning for recommendation

Y Yang, Z Wu, L Wu, K Zhang, R Hong… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
By treating users' interactions as a user-item graph, graph learning models have been
widely deployed in Collaborative Filtering~(CF) based recommendation. Recently …

Bars: Towards open benchmarking for recommender systems

J Zhu, Q Dai, L Su, R Ma, J Liu, G Cai, X **ao… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
The past two decades have witnessed the rapid development of personalized
recommendation techniques. Despite the significant progress made in both research and …

Recbole: Towards a unified, comprehensive and efficient framework for recommendation algorithms

WX Zhao, S Mu, Y Hou, Z Lin, Y Chen, X Pan… - proceedings of the 30th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, there are a large number of recommendation algorithms proposed in the
literature, from traditional collaborative filtering to deep learning algorithms. However, the …

Contrastvae: Contrastive variational autoencoder for sequential recommendation

Y Wang, H Zhang, Z Liu, L Yang, PS Yu - Proceedings of the 31st ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Aiming at exploiting the rich information in user behaviour sequences, sequential
recommendation has been widely adopted in real-world recommender systems. However …