A review of modern recommender systems using generative models (gen-recsys)

Y Deldjoo, Z He, J McAuley, A Korikov… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Traditional recommender systems typically use user-item rating histories as their main data
source. However, deep generative models now have the capability to model and sample …

Large language models as zero-shot conversational recommenders

Z He, Z Xie, R Jha, H Steck, D Liang, Y Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present empirical studies on conversational recommendation tasks using
representative large language models in a zero-shot setting with three primary …

A survey on rag meeting llms: Towards retrieval-augmented large language models

W Fan, Y Ding, L Ning, S Wang, H Li, D Yin… - Proceedings of the 30th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
As one of the most advanced techniques in AI, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) can
offer reliable and up-to-date external knowledge, providing huge convenience for numerous …

Towards unified conversational recommender systems via knowledge-enhanced prompt learning

X Wang, K Zhou, JR Wen, WX Zhao - Proceedings of the 28th ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to proactively elicit user preference and
recommend high-quality items through natural language conversations. Typically, a CRS …

A unified multi-task learning framework for multi-goal conversational recommender systems

Y Deng, W Zhang, W Xu, W Lei, TS Chua… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recent years witnessed several advances in developing multi-goal conversational
recommender systems (MG-CRS) that can proactively attract users' interests and naturally …

C²-crs: Coarse-to-fine contrastive learning for conversational recommender system

Y Zhou, K Zhou, WX Zhao, C Wang, P Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to recommend suitable items to users
through natural language conversations. For developing effective CRSs, a major technical …

User-centric conversational recommendation with multi-aspect user modeling

S Li, R Xie, Y Zhu, X Ao, F Zhuang, Q He - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to provide highquality recommendations
in conversations. However, most conventional CRS models mainly focus on the dialogue …

Improving conversational recommender system via contextual and time-aware modeling with less domain-specific knowledge

L Wang, S Joty, W Gao, X Zeng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS) has become an emerging research topic
seeking to perform recommendations through interactive conversations, which generally …

Variational reasoning about user preferences for conversational recommendation

Z Ren, Z Tian, D Li, P Ren, L Yang, X Xin… - proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) provide recommendations through
interactive conversations. CRSs typically provide recommendations through relatively …

Improving conversational recommender systems via transformer-based sequential modelling

J Zou, E Kanoulas, P Ren, Z Ren, A Sun… - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
In Conversational Recommender Systems (CRSs), conversations usually involve a set of
related items and entities eg, attributes of items. These items and entities are mentioned in …