Advances in Personalized Recommendation Systems

The field of personalized recommendation systems is rapidly evolving, with a growing focus on multimodal and dynamic modeling of user preferences. Recent research has highlighted the importance of incorporating diverse data sources, such as text, images, and audio, to improve the accuracy and robustness of recommendation algorithms. Additionally, there is a increasing emphasis on developing methods that can capture the temporal evolution of user interests and preferences, as well as modeling uncertainty and diversity in user behavior. Noteworthy papers in this area include MARS, which proposes a novel framework for modality-aligned retrieval and sequence augmented CTR prediction, and Unified Representation Learning, which introduces a unified representation learning framework for multi-intent diversity and behavioral uncertainty in recommender systems. Other notable works include Multimodal Foundation Model-Driven User Interest Modeling and Behavior Analysis, which proposes a multimodal foundation model-based framework for user interest modeling and behavior analysis, and Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits, which leverages contextual bandits to dynamically learn each user's optimal content type distribution based on their context and preferences.

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MARS: Modality-Aligned Retrieval for Sequence Augmented CTR Prediction

Content and Engagement Trends in COVID-19 YouTube Videos: Evidence from the Late Pandemic

Towards Multi-Aspect Diversification of News Recommendations Using Neuro-Symbolic AI for Individual and Societal Benefit

A Keyframe-Based Approach for Auditing Bias in YouTube Shorts Recommendations

VQualA 2025 Challenge on Engagement Prediction for Short Videos: Methods and Results

A Plug-and-play Model-agnostic Embedding Enhancement Approach for Explainable Recommendation

Enhancing Interpretability and Effectiveness in Recommendation with Numerical Features via Learning to Contrast the Counterfactual samples

Temporal Interest-Driven Multimodal Personalized Content Generation

Unified Representation Learning for Multi-Intent Diversity and Behavioral Uncertainty in Recommender Systems

Multimodal Foundation Model-Driven User Interest Modeling and Behavior Analysis on Short Video Platforms

Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits

Soundtracks of Our Lives: How Age Influences Musical Preferences

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