Recommender systems are software applications that help users to find items of interest in
situations of information overload. Current research often assumes a one-shot interaction …

Nowadays, a vast amount of clinical data scattered across different sites on the Internet
hinders users from finding helpful information for their well-being improvement. Besides, the …

Explainable recommendation attempts to develop models that generate not only high-quality
recommendations but also intuitive explanations. The explanations may either be post-hoc …

Recommender systems have become a popular and effective means to manage the ever-
increasing amount of multimedia content available today and to help users discover …

Recommender systems are effective tools of information filtering that are prevalent due to
increasing access to the Internet, personalization trends, and changing habits of computer …

“Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even
though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size.”–Albert Einstein The …

The MovieLens datasets are widely used in education, research, and industry. They are
downloaded hundreds of thousands of times each year, reflecting their use in popular press …

Social data in digital form—including user-generated content, expressed or implicit relations
between people, and behavioral traces—are at the core of popular applications and …

Metric learning algorithms produce distance metrics that capture the important relationships
among data. In this work, we study the connection between metric learning and collaborative …

What makes a good recommendation or good list of recommendations? Research into
recommender systems has traditionally focused on accuracy, in particular how closely the …