Must-read papers on Recommender System

This repository provides a list of papers including comprehensive surveys, classical recommender system, social recommender system, deep learing-based recommender system, cold start problem in recommender system, hashing for recommender system and exploration and exploitation problem in recommender system.

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01-Surveys: a set of comprehensive surveys about recommender system, such as hybrid recommender systems, social recommender systems, poi recommender systems, deep-learning based recommonder systems and so on.

02-Classical RS: a set of famous recommendation papers which make predictions with some classic models and practical theory.

03-Social RS: several papers which utilize trust/social information in order to alleviate the sparsity of ratings data.

04-Deep Learning-based RS: a set of papers to build a recommender system with deep learning techniques.

05-Cold Start Problem in RS: some papers specifically dealing with the cold start problems inherent in collaborative filtering.

06-Hashing for RS: some hashing techniques for recommender system in order to training and making recommendation efficiently.

07-EE Problem in RS: some articles about exploration and exploitation problems in recommendation.

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*All papers are sorted by year for clarity.

Surveys

Burke et al. Hybrid Recommender Systems: Survey and Experiments[J]. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 2002, 12(4):331-370.
Adomavicius et al. Toward the next generation of recommender systems: A survey of the state-of-the-art and possible extensions. IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering 17.6 (2005): 734-749.
Su et al. A survey of collaborative filtering techniques. Advances in artificial intelligence (2009): 4.
Cacheda et al. Comparison of collaborative filtering algorithms: Limitations of current techniques and proposals for scalable, high-performance recommender systems. ACM Transactions on the Web 5.1 (2011): 2.
Zhang et al. Tag-aware recommender systems: a state-of-the-art survey. Journal of computer science and technology 26.5 (2011): 767.
Tang et al. Social recommendation: a review. Social Network Analysis and Mining 3.4 (2013): 1113-1133.
Yang et al. A survey of collaborative filtering based social recommender systems. Computer Communications 41 (2014): 1-10.
Shi et al. Collaborative filtering beyond the user-item matrix: A survey of the state of the art and future challenges. ACM Computing Surveys 47.1 (2014): 3.
Chen et al. Recommender systems based on user reviews: the state of the art. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction 25.2 (2015): 99-154.
Yu et al. A survey of point-of-interest recommendation in location-based social networks. In Workshops at AAAI, 2015.
Zhang et al. Deep learning based recommender system: A survey and new perspectives. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.07435 (2017).
Singhal et al. Use of Deep Learning in Modern Recommendation System: A Summary of Recent Works. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.07525 (2017).

Classical Recommender System

Goldberg et al. Using collaborative filtering to weave an information tapestry. Communications of the ACM 35.12 (1992): 61-70.
Resnick et al. GroupLens: an open architecture for collaborative filtering of netnews. CSCW, 1994.
Sarwar et al. Application of dimensionality reduction in recommender system-a case study. (2000).
Sarwar et al. Item-based collaborative filtering recommendation algorithms. WWW, 2001.
Linden et al. Amazon. com recommendations: Item-to-item collaborative filtering. IEEE Internet computing 7.1 (2003): 76-80.
Lemire et al. Slope one predictors for online rating-based collaborative filtering. SDM, 2005.
Zhou et al. Bipartite network projection and personal recommendation. Physical Review E 76.4 (2007): 046115.
Mnih et al. Probabilistic matrix factorization. NIPS, 2008.
Koren et al. Factorization meets the neighborhood: a multifaceted collaborative filtering model. SIGKDD, 2008.
Pan et al. One-class collaborative filtering. ICDM, 2008.
Hu et al. Collaborative filtering for implicit feedback datasets. ICDM, 2008.
Weimer et al. Improving maximum margin matrix factorization. Machine Learning 72.3 (2008): 263-276.
Koren et al. Matrix factorization techniques for recommender systems. Computer 42.8 (2009).
Agarwal et al. Regression-based latent factor models. SIGKDD, 2009.
Koren et al. The bellkor solution to the netflix grand prize. Netflix prize documentation 81 (2009): 1-10.
Rendle et al. BPR: Bayesian personalized ranking from implicit feedback. UAI, 2009.
Koren et al. Collaborative filtering with temporal dynamics. Communications of the ACM 53.4 (2010): 89-97.
Khoshneshin et al. Collaborative filtering via euclidean embedding. RecSys, 2010.
Koren et al. Factor in the neighbors: Scalable and accurate collaborative filtering. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 4.1 (2010): 1.
Chen et al. Feature-based matrix factorization. arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.2271 (2011).
Zhong et al. Contextual collaborative filtering via hierarchical matrix factorization. SDM, 2012.
Lee et al. Local low-rank matrix approximation. ICML. 2013.
Hu et al. Your neighbors affect your ratings: on geographical neighborhood influence to rating prediction. SIGIR, 2014.
Hernández-Lobato et al. Probabilistic matrix factorization with non-random missing data. ICML. 2014.
Shi et al. Semantic path based personalized recommendation on weighted heterogeneous information networks. CIKM, 2015.
Grbovic et al. E-commerce in your inbox: Product recommendations at scale. ICKM, 2015.
Barkan et al. Item2vec: neural item embedding for collaborative filtering. Machine Learning for Signal Processing, 2016.
Liang et al. Modeling user exposure in recommendation. WWW, 2016.
Hsieh et al. Collaborative metric learning. WWW, 2017.
Gao et al. BiNE: Bipartite Network Embedding. SIGIR, 2018.

Social Recommender System

Ma, Hao, et al. Sorec: social recommendation using probabilistic matrix factorization. ICKM, 2008.
Jamali et al. Trustwalker: a random walk model for combining trust-based and item-based recommendation. SIGKDD, 2009.
Ma et al. Learning to recommend with trust and distrust relationships. RecSys, 2009.
Ma et al. Learning to recommend with social trust ensemble. SIGIR, 2009.
Jamali et al. A matrix factorization technique with trust propagation for recommendation in social networks. RecSys, 2010.
Ma, Hao, et al. Recommender systems with social regularization. WSDM, 2011.
Ma, Hao et al. Learning to recommend with explicit and implicit social relations. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology 2.3 (2011): 29.
Ma, Hao. An experimental study on implicit social recommendation. SIGIR, 2013.
Zhao et al. Leveraging social connections to improve personalized ranking for collaborative filtering. ICKM, 2014.
Chen et al. Context-aware collaborative topic regression with social matrix factorization for recommender systems. AAAI, 2014.
Guo et al. TrustSVD: Collaborative Filtering with Both the Explicit and Implicit Influence of User Trust and of Item Ratings. AAAI, 2015.
Wang et al. Social recommendation with strong and weak ties. ICKM, 2016.
Li et al. Social recommendation using Euclidean embedding. IJCNN, 2017.
Zhang et al. Collaborative User Network Embedding for Social Recommender Systems. SDM, 2017.
Yang et al. Social collaborative filtering by trust. IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 39.8 (2017): 1633-1647.
Park et al. UniWalk: Explainable and Accurate Recommendation for Rating and Network Data. arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.07134 (2017).
Rafailidis et al. Learning to Rank with Trust and Distrust in Recommender Systems. RecSys, 2017.
Zhao et al. Collaborative Filtering with Social Local Models. ICDM, 2017.
Wang et al. Collaborative Filtering with Social Exposure: A Modular Approach to Social Recommendation. AAAI 2018.

Deep Learning based Recommender System

Salakhutdinov et al. Restricted Boltzmann machines for collaborative filtering. ICML, 2007.
Wang et al. Collaborative deep learning for recommender systems. ICDM, 2015.
Sedhain et al. Autorec: Autoencoders meet collaborative filtering. WWW, 2015.
Hidasi et al. Session-based recommendations with recurrent neural networks. ICLR, 2016.
Covington et al. Deep neural networks for youtube recommendations. RecSys, 2016.
Cheng et al. Wide & deep learning for recommender systems. Workshop on RecSys, 2016.
Zheng et al. A neural autoregressive approach to collaborative filtering. ICML, 2016.
Wu et al. Collaborative denoising auto-encoders for top-n recommender systems. WSDM, 2016.
Kim et al. Convolutional matrix factorization for document context-aware recommendation. RecSys, 2016.
He et al. Neural collaborative filtering. WWW, 2017.
Zhao et al. Leveraging Long and Short-term Information in Content-aware Movie Recommendation. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09059 (2017).
Li et al. Deep Collaborative Autoencoder for Recommender Systems: A Unified Framework for Explicit and Implicit Feedback. arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.09043 (2017).
Liang et al. Variational Autoencoders for Collaborative Filtering. WWW, 2018.

Cold Start Problem in Recommender System

Gantner et al. Learning attribute-to-feature mappings for cold-start recommendations. ICDM, 2010.
Sedhain et al. Low-Rank Linear Cold-Start Recommendation from Social Data. AAAI. 2017.
Man et al. Cross-domain recommendation: an embedding and mapping approach. IJCAI, 2017.
Cohen et al. Expediting Exploration by Attribute-to-Feature Mapping for Cold-Start Recommendations. RecSys, 2017.

POI Recommender System

Mao Ye et al. Exploiting geographical influence for collaborative point-of-interest recommendation. SIGIR, 2011.
Chen Cheng et al. Fused matrix factorization with geographical and social influence in location-based social networks. AAAI, 2012.
Jia-Dong et al. iGSLR: personalized geo-social location recommen dation: a kernel density estimation approach. SIGSPA, 2013.
Jia-Dong et al. Lore: exploiting sequential influence for location recommendations. SIGSPATIAL, 2014
Jia-Dong et al. Geosoca: Exploiting geographical, social and cat egorical correlations for point-of-interest recommendations. SIGIR, 2015.
Huayu et al. Point-of-Interest Recommendations:Learning Potential Check-ins from Friends. KDD, 2016.
Jing et al. Category-aware next point-of-interest recommendation via listwise Bayesian personalized ranking. IJCAI, 2017.
Jarana et al. A Personalised Ranking Framework with Multiple Sampling Criteria for Venue Recommendation. CIKM, 2017.
Huayu et al. Learning user's intrinsic and extrinsic interests for point-of-interest recommendation: a unified approach. IJCAI, 2017.

Hashing for RS

In progress...

EE in RS

Auer et al. Using confidence bounds for exploitation-exploration trade-offs. Journal of Machine Learning Research 3.Nov (2002): 397-422.
Li et al. A contextual-bandit approach to personalized news article recommendation. WWW, 2010.
Li et al. Exploitation and exploration in a performance based contextual advertising system. SIGKDD, 2010.
Chapelle et al. An empirical evaluation of thompson sampling. NIPS, 2011.
Féraud et al. Random forest for the contextual bandit problem. Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. 2016.
Li et al. Collaborative filtering bandits. SIGIR, 2016.

Acknowledgements

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