In this three part series I compare #LLM and #RecommenderSystems to show the gaps and opportunities. They are surprisingly fewer than one would think.

Part 1 open.substack.com/pub/recsysml...

2/8
GLoSS is a generative recommendation framework that integrates LLMs with semantic search (aka dense retrieval) for sequential recommendation.
#LLM #RecommenderSystems #DenseRetrieval

Check the call of the reproducibility track, which is also open to resource, methodology and reflective papers!

#recsys #recommendersystems

NEW STUDY OUT IN IC&S

Putting #filterbubble Effects to the Test

In an experimental survey study with real #news #recommenderSystems (#nrs), we find **limited** support for #polarization effects of #algorithms inducing "filter bubble" like information […]

[Original post on sciences.social]

RSBench, a new benchmark for LLM‑driven evolutionary algorithms, evaluates prompts on accuracy, diversity and fairness, with three algorithms showing distinct Pareto fronts. https://getnews.me/benchmarking-llm-based-evolutionary-algorithms-for-recommender-systems/ #rsbench #recommendersystems #llm

Measuring Bias in Job #recommendersystems: Auditing the Algorithms https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:32889&r=&r=ain
"…recommender systems show different jobs to identical male & female job seekers, though most of the jobs overlap
…women are steered towards jobs that pay less, are in […]

I love it when recommender systems are so chronically off that it just confirms the coming automated dystopian future we have built will be 90% Brazil and 10% LOTF.

#recommendersystems #researchgate #academia #academicchatter

Ban Recommender Systems on social media!

We must also gain democratic collective control of algorithms on all services we use!

Tech platform co-ops creating apps and services which users can democratically and collectively control 🙌

#Internet #Coops #Cooperatives #Democracy #RecommenderSystems

#INTERSPEECH2025 #ConversationalAI #SpeechProcessing #RecommenderSystems

My article on @TheJournal , calling for toxic algorithms on social media to be banned!

#socialmedia #australia #ireland #eu #socialmediaban #bansocialmedia #recommendersystems #democracy #farright #extremism #fascism #online #iris...
#usaref="/hashtag/usa" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#usa #gopref="/hashtag/gop" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#gop #fascists/hashtag/fascists" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#fascists

👉 Vote 'em Out!

Recommender systems: Is your model just "accurate" or truly useful? 🤔 Part 1 explores why MAE/RMSE aren't enough. Discover crucial ranking metrics like NDCG for better user experience! 👇 https://fanyangmeng.blog/recommender-system-evaluation-part-1/ #RecommenderSystems #MachineLearning #DataScience

New benchmark for recommender‑system unlearning shows a custom algorithm can delete data with latency of only a few seconds. Posted 18 September 2025. Read more: https://getnews.me/benchmark-aligns-recommender-system-unlearning-with-real-world-needs/ #recommendersystems #unlearning

📢 We're also now on LinkedIn!

Follow the Glasgow Information Retrieval Group for updates on IR research, @irglasgow.bsky.social activities, events, and collaborations:

🔗 linkedin.com/company/glasgow-information-retrieval-group

#InformationRetrieval #IR #AI #recsys #RecommenderSystems #Glasgow

8/8
🗓️ I’ll be at the KDD Workshop on Online and Adaptive Recommender Systems (OARS) — happy to chat about this work, online and in person in Toronto!
#GLoSS #KDD2025 #OARS #LLM #RecommenderSystems #SemanticSearch #DenseRetrieval #LoRA #LLaMA3

Still trying to figure out how to scratch your #recsys itch after this year's @recsys.bsky.social? Have a look at the #ACMTORS Call for papers for the Special Issue on #RecommenderSystems for Good. Will you be be submitting a paper as an xmas gift to the RecSys community?
dl.acm.org/pb-assets/st...

Our latest paper got published: "Beyond choice architecture: toward understanding the role of the decoy effect in sustainable tourism recommender systems"

You can download it here: rdcu.be/eTrPo

#tourism
#visitormanagement
#digitalization
#recommendersystems
#beavioralanalytics
#HSKempten
#INIT

RecInter, an agent‑based simulation platform for recommender systems presented at EMNLP 2025, lets user actions instantly update item attributes; code is on GitHub. https://getnews.me/recinter-interaction-centric-agent-simulation-for-dynamic-recommenders/ #recommendersystems #recinter

Researchers use low‑rank adapters to fine‑tune small language models as user simulators, handling millions of personas with far less compute than large LLMs. Read more: https://getnews.me/low-rank-adapter-fine-tuning-of-small-language-models-for-user-behavior/ #recommendersystems #lowrankadapters

My article on @thejournal.ie calling for toxic algorithms on social media to be banned!

jrnl.ie/6901718

#socialmedia #australia #ireland #eu #socialmediaban #bansocialmedia #recommendersystems #democracy #farright #extremism #fascism #irish #irishpolitics #eupolitics #europe #toxicalgorithms

Social media companies have too much power to decide what we see online.

We must ban recommender systems on social media, so that we can, as users and as citizens, regain control over what information we see online.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

#RecommenderSystems #Algorithms #Palestine #Israel

You can also check out our blogpost for the paper: blog.mjovanovik.com/post/7507363...

#KnowledgeGraphs #GNN #GNNs #RecommenderSystems #OpenAccess #Academia #Blog

Super excited to be speaking at #RecSysNL - the Recommender Systems Netherlands meetup in a few weeks. I started this meetup as a postdoc at CWI in 2013. Happy to see that it's still around. www.meetup.com/recsysnl/eve...
#recsys #recommendersystems

Your next obsession?
AI already picked it. 🎯🤖

Multimodal LMs now predict what you’ll want — and when.

📌 https://glcnd.io/harnessing-multimodal-language-models-for-sequential-recommendations/

#AI #RecommenderSystems #GLCND_IO

👉 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁! 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: impact.dataschool.nl/events/makin...

#RecommenderSystems #Conference #Collaboration #Algorithms #AI #Ethics