A survey of deep reinforcement learning in recommender systems: A systematic review and future directions

X Chen, L Yao, J McAuley, G Zhou, X Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
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 …

[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 …

Relevance Feedback with Brain Signals

Z Ye, X Xie, Q Ai, Y Liu, Z Wang, W Su… - ACM Transactions on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The Relevance Feedback (RF) process relies on accurate and real-time relevance
estimation of feedback documents to improve retrieval performance. Since collecting explicit …

State of the Art of User Simulation approaches for conversational information retrieval

P Erbacher, L Soulier, L Denoyer - arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.03435, 2022 - arxiv.org
Conversational Information Retrieval (CIR) is an emerging field of Information Retrieval (IR)
at the intersection of interactive IR and dialogue systems for open domain information …

A relative information gain-based query performance prediction framework with generated query variants

S Datta, D Ganguly, M Mitra, D Greene - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Query performance prediction (QPP) methods, which aim to predict the performance of a
query, often rely on evidences in the form of different characteristic patterns in the …

User retention-oriented recommendation with decision transformer

K Zhao, L Zou, X Zhao, M Wang, D Yin - Proceedings of the ACM Web …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Improving user retention with reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted increasing attention
due to its significant importance in boosting user engagement. However, training the RL …

Contextualized query expansion via unsupervised chunk selection for text retrieval

Z Zheng, K Hui, B He, X Han, L Sun, A Yates - Information Processing & …, 2021 - Elsevier
When ranking a list of documents relative to a given query, the vocabulary mismatches could
compromise the performance, as a result of the different language used in the queries and …

Boosting search engines with interactive agents

L Adolphs, B Boerschinger, C Buck… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
This paper presents first successful steps in designing search agents that learn meta-
strategies for iterative query refinement in information-seeking tasks. Our approach uses …

A survey on the memory mechanism of large language model based agents

Z Zhang, X Bo, C Ma, R Li, X Chen, Q Dai, J Zhu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language model (LLM) based agents have recently attracted much attention from the
research and industry communities. Compared with original LLMs, LLM-based agents are …

Generative query reformulation for effective adhoc search

X Wang, S MacAvaney, C Macdonald… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Performing automatic reformulations of a user's query is a popular paradigm used in
information retrieval (IR) for improving effectiveness--as exemplified by the pseudo …