no code implementations • 2 Mar 2025 • Allen Lin, Jianling Wang, Ziwei Zhu, James Caverlee
To address the user privacy concerns in CRS, we first define a set of privacy protection guidelines for preserving user privacy under the conversational recommendation setting.
1 code implementation • 11 Feb 2025 • Chengkai Liu, Yangtian Zhang, Jianling Wang, Rex Ying, James Caverlee
Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences.
1 code implementation • 3 Jan 2025 • Weizhi Zhang, Yuanchen Bei, Liangwei Yang, Henry Peng Zou, Peilin Zhou, Aiwei Liu, Yinghui Li, Hao Chen, Jianling Wang, Yu Wang, Feiran Huang, Sheng Zhou, Jiajun Bu, Allen Lin, James Caverlee, Fakhri Karray, Irwin King, Philip S. Yu
Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recommendations.
1 code implementation • 4 Dec 2024 • Bruno Galerne, Jianling Wang, Lara Raad, Jean-Michel Morel
Applying style transfer to a full 3D environment is a challenging task that has seen many developments since the advent of neural rendering.
1 code implementation • 27 Sep 2024 • Chengkai Liu, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
Our theoretical analysis and experimental results show that the proposed model optimizing alignment and uniformity with the twin encoder contributes to better recommendation accuracy and training efficiency performance.
1 code implementation • 18 Jun 2024 • Chengkai Liu, Jianghao Lin, Hanzhou Liu, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
Sequential recommender systems aims to predict the users' next interaction through user behavior modeling with various operators like RNNs and attentions.
no code implementations • 25 May 2024 • Jianling Wang, Haokai Lu, Yifan Liu, He Ma, Yueqi Wang, Yang Gu, Shuzhou Zhang, Ningren Han, Shuchao Bi, Lexi Baugher, Ed Chi, Minmin Chen
Traditional recommendation systems are subject to a strong feedback loop by learning from and reinforcing past user-item interactions, which in turn limits the discovery of novel user interests.
no code implementations • 26 Apr 2024 • Yichuan Li, Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, Kyumin Lee
With the capabilities of understanding and executing natural language instructions, Large language models (LLMs) can potentially act as a powerful tool for textual data augmentation.
1 code implementation • 13 Apr 2024 • Jinhao Pan, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang, Allen Lin, James Caverlee
In this paper, we identify two root causes of this mainstream bias: (i) discrepancy modeling, whereby CF algorithms focus on modeling mainstream users while neglecting niche users with unique preferences; and (ii) unsynchronized learning, where niche users require more training epochs than mainstream users to reach peak performance.
2 code implementations • 6 Mar 2024 • Chengkai Liu, Jianghao Lin, Jianling Wang, Hanzhou Liu, James Caverlee
Sequential recommendation aims to estimate the dynamic user preferences and sequential dependencies among historical user behaviors.
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2024 • Jianling Wang, Haokai Lu, James Caverlee, Ed Chi, Minmin Chen
The reasoning and generalization capabilities of LLMs can help us better understand user preferences and item characteristics, offering exciting prospects to enhance recommendation systems.
no code implementations • 29 Aug 2023 • Haoran Liu, Bokun Wang, Jianling Wang, Xiangjue Dong, Tianbao Yang, James Caverlee
As powerful tools for representation learning on graphs, graph neural networks (GNNs) have played an important role in applications including social networks, recommendation systems, and online web services.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2023 • Jianling Wang, Haokai Lu, Sai Zhang, Bart Locanthi, HaoTing Wang, Dylan Greaves, Benjamin Lipshitz, Sriraj Badam, Ed H. Chi, Cristos Goodrow, Su-Lin Wu, Lexi Baugher, Minmin Chen
The multi-funnel setup effectively balances between coverage and relevance.
1 code implementation • 29 May 2023 • Yixin Liu, Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, Vincent Lee, Huan Liu, Shirui Pan
Accordingly, we propose D$^2$PT, a dual-channel GNN framework that performs long-range information propagation not only on the input graph with incomplete structure, but also on a global graph that encodes global semantic similarities.
no code implementations • 13 Feb 2023 • Allen Lin, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
Conversational recommenders are emerging as a powerful tool to personalize a user's recommendation experience.
1 code implementation • 13 Oct 2022 • Xiangjue Dong, Jiaying Lu, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
Through experiments, we validate the proposed QG model on both public datasets and a new WikiCQA dataset.
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no code implementations • 8 Aug 2022 • Allen Lin, Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
Conversational recommender systems have demonstrated great success.
no code implementations • 5 Aug 2022 • Allen Lin, Jianling Wang, Ziwei Zhu, James Caverlee
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) have shown great success in accurately capturing a user's current and detailed preference through the multi-round interaction cycle while effectively guiding users to a more personalized recommendation.
no code implementations • 2 Apr 2022 • Jianling Wang, Ya Le, Bo Chang, Yuyan Wang, Ed H. Chi, Minmin Chen
Users who come to recommendation platforms are heterogeneous in activity levels.
no code implementations • 28 Dec 2021 • Jianling Wang, Kaize Ding, Ziwei Zhu, James Caverlee
Session-based recommender systems aim to improve recommendations in short-term sessions that can be found across many platforms.
1 code implementation • 18 Dec 2021 • Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee, Huan Liu
Inspired by the extensive success of deep learning, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been proposed to learn expressive node representations and demonstrated promising performance in various graph learning tasks.
no code implementations • 22 Sep 2021 • Jianling Wang, Ainur Yessenalina, Alireza Roshan-Ghias
Online video services acquire new content on a daily basis to increase engagement, and improve the user experience.
1 code implementation • 13 Jul 2021 • Jianling Wang, Kaize Ding, James Caverlee
A fundamental challenge for sequential recommenders is to capture the sequential patterns of users toward modeling how users transit among items.
no code implementations • 12 Jun 2021 • Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, Jundong Li, James Caverlee, Huan Liu
Graphs are widely used to model the relational structure of data, and the research of graph machine learning (ML) has a wide spectrum of applications ranging from drug design in molecular graphs to friendship recommendation in social networks.
1 code implementation • 14 Mar 2021 • Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
This is paper is an extended and reorganized version of our SIGIR 2020~\cite{zhu2020measuring} paper.
no code implementations • WSDM 2021 • Ziwei Zhu, Yun He, Xing Zhao, Yin Zhang, Jianling Wang, James Caverlee
This paper connects equal opportunity to popularity bias in implicit recommenders to introduce the problem of popularity-opportunity bias.
1 code implementation • EMNLP 2020 • Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, Jundong Li, Dingcheng Li, Huan Liu
Text classification is a critical research topic with broad applications in natural language processing.
2 code implementations • 23 Jun 2020 • Kaize Ding, Jianling Wang, Jundong Li, Kai Shu, Chenghao Liu, Huan Liu
By constructing a pool of semi-supervised node classification tasks to mimic the real test environment, GPN is able to perform \textit{meta-learning} on an attributed network and derive a highly generalizable model for handling the target classification task.
1 code implementation • 30 Dec 2019 • Yun He, Jianling Wang, Wei Niu, James Caverlee
User-generated item lists are a popular feature of many different platforms.
no code implementations • 9 Sep 2018 • Ziwei Zhu, Jianling Wang, Yin Zhang, James Caverlee
This paper highlights our ongoing efforts to create effective information curator recommendation models that can be personalized for individual users, while maintaining important fairness properties.