Small data are often used in scientific and engineering research due to the presence of
various constraints, such as time, cost, ethics, privacy, security, and technical limitations in …

In recent years, neural architecture-based recommender systems have achieved
tremendous success, but they still fall short of expectation when dealing with highly sparse …

Language is essentially a complex, intricate system of human expressions governed by
grammatical rules. It poses a significant challenge to develop capable AI algorithms for …

Recently, large language models (LLMs)(eg, GPT-4) have demonstrated impressive general-
purpose task-solving abilities, including the potential to approach recommendation tasks …

Recommendation systems have witnessed significant advancements and have been widely
used over the past decades. However, most traditional recommendation methods are task …

For a long time, different recommendation tasks require designing task-specific architectures
and training objectives. As a result, it is hard to transfer the knowledge and representations …

Contrastive learning (CL) recently has spurred a fruitful line of research in the field of
recommendation, since its ability to extract self-supervised signals from the raw data is well …

In order to develop effective sequential recommenders, a series of sequence representation
learning (SRL) methods are proposed to model historical user behaviors. Most existing SRL …

In the past decades, recommender systems have attracted much attention in both research
and industry communities, and a large number of studies have been devoted to developing …

Sequential recommendation aims to model dynamic user behavior from historical
interactions. Existing methods rely on either explicit item IDs or general textual features for …