The paper shows that latent topics can be extracted directly from the weight matrix of a closed‑form linear autoencoder under a latent‑factor model of user‑item interactions. These topics enable interpretation of recommendations without extra training, and the authors introduce item and user normalizations to mitigate dominance by popular items or active users. Experiments on six public datasets demonstrate that the method outperforms dedicated topic models in topic quality and matches or exceeds the best linear autoencoder, while maintaining competitive recommendation performance.
By Jutiyakhun Srisoparp, Donlapark Ponnoprat
arXiv:2611.06610v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Collaborative filtering (CF) is a cornerstone of recommender systems and plays a relevant role in many modern applications. CF uses user-item interacti...
By Mario Mallea, Angela Nebot, Francisco Mugica
The paper investigates why many state‑of‑the‑art recommendation algorithms, despite using diverse deep‑learning techniques, achieve similar performance. It shows that the key commonality is a regularizer: either a nuclear‑norm or a Frobenius‑norm term. The authors further propose two new low‑rank, closed‑form solutions that combine the advantages of both regularizers.
By Dong Li, Zhenming Liu, Ruoming Jin, Hao Zhou, Zhi Liu, Jing Gao, Bin Ren
This reproducibility study investigates the counterfactual explanation method Learning to eXplain Recommendations (LXR) by extending its application beyond the top‑ranked item to other recommended items. The authors compare LXR against alternative baselines such as item popularity and latent factor similarity, noting that these baselines perform surprisingly well on certain tasks. They also analyze how item popularity affects explanation quality, finding that LXR produces shorter perturbations for less popular items, and conduct a brute‑force search to estimate a lower bound on optimal perturbation size.
By Meysam Varasteh, Elizabeth McKinnie, Robin Burke
arXiv:2403. 00802v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Production-grade recommender systems rely heavily on a large-scale corpus used by online media services, including Netflix, Pinterest, and Amazon.
By Amit Kumar Jaiswal
Modern recommender systems are typically based on deep learning (DL) models, where a dense encoder learns representations of users and items. As a result, these systems often suffer from the black-box nature and computational complexity of the underlying models, making it difficult to systematically enhance their recommendation capabilities.
arXiv:2606. 16973v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Incorporating textual reviews into a Recommender System has become a prominent strategy for enriching collaborative signals with semantic information.
By Eduardo Ferreira da Silva, Mayki dos Santos Oliveira, Joel Machado Pires Denis Dantas Boaventura, Frederico Ara\'ujo Dur\~ao
arXiv:2606. 01948v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing popularity of group activities has increased the need for methods that provide recommendations to groups of users given their individual preferences.
By Mubaraka Sani Ibrahim, Lehel Csat\'o, Isah Charles Saidu
arXiv:2607. 20863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern recommender systems are typically based on deep learning (DL) models, where a dense encoder learns representations of users and items.
By Wenyuan Wang, Yusong Zhao, Zihao Xu, Hengyi Wang, Qi Xu, Zhigang Hua, Yan Xie, Yi Wang, Zihao Zhao, Bo Long, Chengzhi Mao, Shuang Yang, Hengguan Huang, Hao Wang
arXiv:2210. 10619v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliability measures associated with the prediction of the machine learning models are critical to strengthening user confidence in artificial intelligence.
By \'Angel Gonz\'alez-Prieto, Abraham Guti\'errez, Fernando Ortega, Ra\'ul Lara-Cabrera
arXiv:2606. 18897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Intent-based recommender systems have gained significant attention for improving accuracy and interpretability by modeling the underlying motivations behind user behaviors.
By Jiangnan Xia, Xuansheng Wu, Yu Yang, Xin Wang, Ninghao Liu
The paper introduces ELMRec, an enhanced LLM-based recommender that improves high-order interaction awareness by using whole-word embeddings to better interpret graph-constructed user-item interactions without graph pre-training. It also identifies that LLMs tend to prioritize earlier user interactions over recent ones and proposes a reranking solution. ELMRec achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods in both direct and sequential recommendation tasks.
By Xinfeng Wang, Jin Cui, Fumiyo Fukumoto, Yoshimi Suzuki