no code implementations • 13 Jan 2025 • Chongming Gao, Kexin Huang, Ziang Fei, Jiaju Chen, Jiawei Chen, Jianshan Sun, Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Peng Jiang
Our empirical findings emphasize the controllable recommendation strategy's ability to produce item sequences according to different objectives while maintaining performance that is competitive with current recommendation strategies across various objectives.
1 code implementation • 22 Dec 2024 • Zijian Zhang, Shuchang Liu, Ziru Liu, Rui Zhong, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Chunxu Zhang, Qidong Liu, Peng Jiang
User simulators can rapidly generate a large volume of timely user behavior data, providing a testing platform for reinforcement learning-based recommender systems, thus accelerating their iteration and optimization.
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2024 • Kaike Zhang, Yunfan Wu, Yougang Lyu, Du Su, Yingqiang Ge, Shuchang Liu, Qi Cao, Zhaochun Ren, Fei Sun
Consequently, this workshop aims to provide a platform for researchers to explore the development of Human-Centered Recommender Systems~(HCRS).
no code implementations • 22 Oct 2024 • Chang Meng, Chenhao Zhai, Xueliang Wang, Shuchang Liu, Xiaoqiang Feng, Lantao Hu, Xiu Li, Han Li, Kun Gai
These two modules work together to dynamically identify and targeting specific user groups and applying treatments effectively.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2024 • Chengzhi Lin, Hezheng Lin, Shuchang Liu, Cangguang Ruan, LingJing Xu, Dezhao Yang, Chuyuan Wang, Yongqi Liu
The proliferation of online micro-video platforms has underscored the necessity for advanced recommender systems to mitigate information overload and deliver tailored content.
1 code implementation • 22 Aug 2024 • Jiaju Chen, Chongming Gao, Shuai Yuan, Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Peng Jiang
These sub-tasks are trained independently and inferred sequentially according to user-defined control numbers, ensuring more precise control over diversity.
no code implementations • 17 Jul 2024 • Chengzhi Lin, Shuchang Liu, Chuyuan Wang, Yongqi Liu
Accurately predicting watch time is crucial for optimizing recommendations and user experience in short video platforms.
1 code implementation • 10 Jun 2024 • Ziru Liu, Shuchang Liu, Bin Yang, Zhenghai Xue, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Zijian Zhang, Lantao Hu, Han Li, Peng Jiang
Recommender systems aim to fulfill the user's daily demands.
1 code implementation • 5 May 2024 • Jiajun Li, Tianze Xu, Xuesong Chen, Xinrui Yao, Shuchang Liu
In recent years, AI-Generated Content (AIGC) has witnessed rapid advancements, facilitating the creation of music, images, and other artistic forms across a wide range of industries.
1 code implementation • 29 Apr 2024 • Zijian Zhang, Shuchang Liu, Jiaao Yu, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Chunxu Zhang, Ziru Liu, Qidong Liu, Hongwei Zhao, Lantao Hu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
M3oE integrates multi-domain information, maps knowledge across domains and tasks, and optimizes multiple objectives.
1 code implementation • 4 Apr 2024 • Ziru Liu, Shuchang Liu, Zijian Zhang, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Kesen Zhao, Lantao Hu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
In the landscape of Recommender System (RS) applications, reinforcement learning (RL) has recently emerged as a powerful tool, primarily due to its proficiency in optimizing long-term rewards.
1 code implementation • 29 Jan 2024 • Xiaobei Wang, Shuchang Liu, Xueliang Wang, Qingpeng Cai, Lantao Hu, Han Li, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai, Guangming Xie
Furthermore, we show that a reward-based future decomposition strategy can better express the item-wise future impact and improve the recommendation accuracy in the long term.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Kesen Zhao, Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Ziru Liu, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
For each task, KuaiSim also provides evaluation protocols and baseline recommendation algorithms that further serve as benchmarks for future research.
no code implementations • 11 Aug 2023 • Yue Feng, Shuchang Liu, Zhenghai Xue, Qingpeng Cai, Lantao Hu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai, Fei Sun
For response generation, we utilize the generation ability of LLM as a language interface to better interact with users.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2023 • Zhenghai Xue, Qingpeng Cai, Shuchang Liu, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai, Bo An
Data with dynamics shift are separated according to their environment parameters to train the corresponding policy.
1 code implementation • 4 Jun 2023 • Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Zhankui He, Bowen Sun, Julian McAuley, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
In this work, we aim to learn a policy that can generate sufficiently diverse item lists for users while maintaining high recommendation quality.
1 code implementation • 23 May 2023 • Shijie Geng, Juntao Tan, Shuchang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Yongfeng Zhang
In light of this, we propose the development of a multimodal foundation model (MFM) considering visual, textual, and personalization modalities under the P5 recommendation paradigm, thus named VIP5 (Visual P5), to unify various modalities and recommendation tasks.
1 code implementation • 7 Feb 2023 • Shuchang Liu, Qingpeng Cai, Bowen Sun, Yuhao Wang, Ji Jiang, Dong Zheng, Kun Gai, Peng Jiang, Xiangyu Zhao, Yongfeng Zhang
To overcome this challenge, we propose a hyper-actor and critic learning framework where the policy decomposes the item list generation process into a hyper-action inference step and an effect-action selection step.
1 code implementation • 7 Feb 2023 • Ziru Liu, Jiejie Tian, Qingpeng Cai, Xiangyu Zhao, Jingtong Gao, Shuchang Liu, Dayou Chen, Tonghao He, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
To be specific, the RMTL structure can address the two aforementioned issues by (i) constructing an MTL environment from session-wise interactions and (ii) training multi-task actor-critic network structure, which is compatible with most existing MTL-based recommendation models, and (iii) optimizing and fine-tuning the MTL loss function using the weights generated by critic networks.
no code implementations • 3 Feb 2023 • Qingpeng Cai, Shuchang Liu, Xueliang Wang, Tianyou Zuo, Wentao Xie, Bin Yang, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
In this paper, we choose reinforcement learning methods to optimize the retention as they are designed to maximize the long-term performance.
1 code implementation • 3 Feb 2023 • Qingpeng Cai, Zhenghai Xue, Chi Zhang, Wanqi Xue, Shuchang Liu, Ruohan Zhan, Xueliang Wang, Tianyou Zuo, Wentao Xie, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai
One the one hand, the platforms aims at optimizing the users' cumulative watch time (main goal) in long term, which can be effectively optimized by Reinforcement Learning.
1 code implementation • 6 Dec 2022 • Wanqi Xue, Qingpeng Cai, Zhenghai Xue, Shuo Sun, Shuchang Liu, Dong Zheng, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai, Bo An
Though promising, the application of RL heavily relies on well-designed rewards, but designing rewards related to long-term user engagement is quite difficult.
no code implementations • 25 Jul 2022 • Yingqiang Ge, Shuchang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Juntao Tan, Zelong Li, Shuyuan Xu, Yunqi Li, Yikun Xian, Yongfeng Zhang
Recommender systems (RS), serving at the forefront of Human-centered AI, are widely deployed in almost every corner of the web and facilitate the human decision-making process.
no code implementations • 26 May 2022 • Yunqi Li, Hanxiong Chen, Shuyuan Xu, Yingqiang Ge, Juntao Tan, Shuchang Liu, Yongfeng Zhang
It first presents a brief introduction about fairness in basic machine learning tasks such as classification and ranking in order to provide a general overview of fairness research, as well as introduce the more complex situations and challenges that need to be considered when studying fairness in recommender systems.
no code implementations • 24 Apr 2022 • Yingqiang Ge, Juntao Tan, Yan Zhu, Yinglong Xia, Jiebo Luo, Shuchang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Shijie Geng, Zelong Li, Yongfeng Zhang
In this paper, we study the problem of explainable fairness, which helps to gain insights about why a system is fair or unfair, and guides the design of fair recommender systems with a more informed and unified methodology.
2 code implementations • 24 Mar 2022 • Shijie Geng, Shuchang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Yingqiang Ge, Yongfeng Zhang
For a long time, different recommendation tasks typically require designing task-specific architectures and training objectives.
no code implementations • 27 Dec 2021 • Hanxiong Chen, Yunqi Li, Shaoyun Shi, Shuchang Liu, He Zhu, Yongfeng Zhang
Graphs can represent relational information among entities and graph structures are widely used in many intelligent tasks such as search, recommendation, and question answering.
no code implementations • 5 Sep 2021 • Yingqiang Ge, Shuchang Liu, Zelong Li, Shuyuan Xu, Shijie Geng, Yunqi Li, Juntao Tan, Fei Sun, Yongfeng Zhang
While recent years have witnessed the emergence of various explainable methods in machine learning, to what degree the explanations really represent the reasoning process behind the model prediction -- namely, the faithfulness of explanation -- is still an open problem.
no code implementations • 26 Feb 2021 • Shuchang Liu, Fei Sun, Yingqiang Ge, Changhua Pei, Yongfeng Zhang
Slate recommendation generates a list of items as a whole instead of ranking each item individually, so as to better model the intra-list positional biases and item relations.
no code implementations • 13 Jan 2021 • Yunqi Li, Shuyuan Xu, Bo Liu, Zuohui Fu, Shuchang Liu, Xu Chen, Yongfeng Zhang
This paper proposes a discrete knowledge graph (KG) embedding (DKGE) method, which projects KG entities and relations into the Hamming space based on a computationally tractable discrete optimization algorithm, to solve the formidable storage and computation cost challenges in traditional continuous graph embedding methods.
1 code implementation • 10 Jan 2021 • Yingqiang Ge, Shuchang Liu, Ruoyuan Gao, Yikun Xian, Yunqi Li, Xiangyu Zhao, Changhua Pei, Fei Sun, Junfeng Ge, Wenwu Ou, Yongfeng Zhang
We focus on the fairness of exposure of items in different groups, while the division of the groups is based on item popularity, which dynamically changes over time in the recommendation process.
1 code implementation • 6 Jul 2020 • Yingqiang Ge, Shuyuan Xu, Shuchang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Fei Sun, Yongfeng Zhang
Before making purchases on e-commerce websites, most consumers tend to rely on rating scores and review information to make purchase decisions.
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2020 • Shuyuan Xu, Yunqi Li, Shuchang Liu, Zuohui Fu, Xu Chen, Yongfeng Zhang
State-of-the-art recommender systems have the ability to generate high-quality recommendations, but usually cannot provide intuitive explanations to humans due to the usage of black-box prediction models.