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 …

[HTML][HTML] Advances and challenges in conversational recommender systems: A survey

C Gao, W Lei, X He, M de Rijke, TS Chua - AI open, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Recommender systems exploit interaction history to estimate user preference, having been
heavily used in a wide range of industry applications. However, static recommendation …

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 …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning for integrated recommendation

R **e, S Zhang, R Wang, F **a, L Lin - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2021‏ - ojs.aaai.org
Integrated recommendation aims to jointly recommend heterogeneous items in the main
feed from different sources via multiple channels, which needs to capture user preferences …

[PDF][PDF] SlateQ: A tractable decomposition for reinforcement learning with recommendation sets

E Ie, V Jain, J Wang, S Narvekar, R Agarwal, R Wu… - 2019‏ - cs.toronto.edu
Reinforcement learning (RL) methods for recommender systems optimize recommendations
for long-term user engagement. However, since users are often presented with slates of …

Estimating and penalizing induced preference shifts in recommender systems

MD Carroll, A Dragan, S Russell… - International …, 2022‏ - proceedings.mlr.press
The content that a recommender system (RS) shows to users influences them. Therefore,
when choosing a recommender to deploy, one is implicitly also choosing to induce specific …

Preference dynamics under personalized recommendations

S Dean, J Morgenstern - Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on …, 2022‏ - dl.acm.org
The design of content recommendation systems underpins many online platforms: social
media feeds, online news aggregators, and audio/video hosting websites all choose how …

Reinforcement learning applications

Y Li - arxiv preprint arxiv:1908.06973, 2019‏ - arxiv.org
We start with a brief introduction to reinforcement learning (RL), about its successful stories,
basics, an example, issues, the ICML 2019 Workshop on RL for Real Life, how to use it …

Do offline metrics predict online performance in recommender systems?

K Krauth, S Dean, A Zhao, W Guo, M Curmei… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2020‏ - arxiv.org
Recommender systems operate in an inherently dynamical setting. Past recommendations
influence future behavior, including which data points are observed and how user …

Personalized approximate pareto-efficient recommendation

R **e, Y Liu, S Zhang, R Wang, F **a… - Proceedings of the Web …, 2021‏ - dl.acm.org
Real-world recommendation systems usually have different learning objectives and
evaluation criteria on accuracy, diversity or novelty. Therefore, multi-objective …