Self-supervised learning for recommender systems: A survey

J Yu, H Yin, X Xia, T Chen, J Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, neural architecture-based recommender systems have achieved
tremendous success, but they still fall short of expectation when dealing with highly sparse …

Generate what you prefer: Reshaping sequential recommendation via guided diffusion

Z Yang, J Wu, Z Wang, X Wang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Sequential recommendation aims to recommend the next item that matches a user'sinterest,
based on the sequence of items he/she interacted with before. Scrutinizingprevious studies …

Incorporating bias-aware margins into contrastive loss for collaborative filtering

A Zhang, W Ma, X Wang… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Collaborative filtering (CF) models easily suffer from popularity bias, which makes
recommendation deviate from users' actual preferences. However, most current debiasing …

Empowering collaborative filtering with principled adversarial contrastive loss

A Zhang, L Sheng, Z Cai, X Wang… - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Contrastive Learning (CL) has achieved impressive performance in self-supervised learning
tasks, showing superior generalization ability. Inspired by the success, adopting CL into …

Invariant collaborative filtering to popularity distribution shift

A Zhang, J Zheng, X Wang, Y Yuan… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Collaborative Filtering (CF) models, despite their great success, suffer from severe
performance drops due to popularity distribution shifts, where these changes are ubiquitous …

Gif: A general graph unlearning strategy via influence function

J Wu, Y Yang, Y Qian, Y Sui, X Wang… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With the greater emphasis on privacy and security in our society, the problem of graph
unlearning—revoking the influence of specific data on the trained GNN model, is drawing …

Let me do it for you: Towards llm empowered recommendation via tool learning

Y Zhao, J Wu, X Wang, W Tang, D Wang… - Proceedings of the 47th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Conventional recommender systems (RSs) face challenges in precisely capturing users' fine-
grained preferences. Large language models (LLMs) have shown capabilities in …

Contrastive self-supervised learning in recommender systems: A survey

M Jing, Y Zhu, T Zang, K Wang - ACM Transactions on Information …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Deep learning-based recommender systems have achieved remarkable success in recent
years. However, these methods usually heavily rely on labeled data (ie, user-item …

Adap-τ: Adaptively modulating embedding magnitude for recommendation

J Chen, J Wu, J Wu, X Cao, S Zhou, X He - Proceedings of the ACM Web …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have witnessed the great successes of embedding-based methods in
recommender systems. Despite their decent performance, we argue one potential limitation …

A generic learning framework for sequential recommendation with distribution shifts

Z Yang, X He, J Zhang, J Wu, X Xin, J Chen… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Leading sequential recommendation (SeqRec) models adopt empirical risk minimization
(ERM) as the learning framework, which inherently assumes that the training data (historical …