RecSys Best Paper Awards

Since 2009, the best contributions to the annual ACM RecSys Conference were honored with awards.

2020

• Progressive Layered Extraction (PLE): A Novel Multi-Task Learning (MTL) Model for Personalized Recommendations
  by H. Tang, J. Liu, M. Zhao, X. Gong (Best Long Paper)
• Exploiting Performance Estimates for Augmenting Recommendation Ensembles
  by G. Penha, R. L. T. Santos (Best Long Paper Runner-up)
• ADER: Adaptively Distilled Exemplar Replay Towards Continual Learning for Session-based Recommendation
  by F. Mi, X. Lin, B. Faltings (Best Short Paper)

2019

• Are We Really Making Much Progress? A Worrying Analysis of Recent Neural Recommendation Approaches
  by M. Ferrari Dacrema, P. Cremonesi, D. Jannach (Best Long Paper)
• Pace My Race: Recommendations for Marathon Running
  by J. Berndsen, B. Smyth, A. Lawlor (Best Short Paper)
• Quick and Accurate Attack Detection in Recommender Systems through User Attributes
  by M. Aktukmak, Y. Yilmaz, I. Uysal (Honorable Mention Short Paper)

2018

• Causal Embeddings for Recommendation
  by S. Bonner, F. Vasile (Best Long Paper)
• Generation Meets Recommendation: Proposing Novel Items for Groups of Users
  by T. V. Vo, H. Soh (Best Long Paper Runner-up)
• Impact of Item Consumption on Assessment of Recommendations in User Studies
  by B. Loepp, T. Donkers, T. Kleemann, J. Ziegler (Best Short Paper)
• HOP-rec: High-order Proximity for Implicit Recommendation
  by J.-H. Yang, C.-M. Chen, C.-J. Wang, M.-F. Tsai (Best Short Paper Runner-up)

2017

• Modeling the Assimilation-Contrast Effects in Online Product Rating Systems: Debiasing and Recommendations
  by X. Zhang, J. Zhao, J.C.S. Lui (Best Paper)
• Translation-based Recommendation
  by R. He, W.-C. Kang, J. McAuley (Best Paper Runner-up)

2016

• Local Item-Item Models for Top-N Recommendation
  by E. Christakopoulou and G. Karypis (Best Paper)
• Adaptive, Personalized Diversity for Visual Discovery
  by C. H. Teo, H. Nassif, D. Hill, S. Srinivasan, M. Goodman, V. Mohan and S. V. N. Vishwanathan (Best Short Paper)

2015

• Context-Aware Event Recommendation in Event-based Social Networks
  by A. Macedo, L. Marinho and R. Santos (Best Paper)
• Crowd Sourcing, with a Few Answers: Recommending Commuters for Traffic Updates
  by E. Daly, M. Berlingerio and F. Schnitzler (Best Short Paper)

2014

• Beyond Clicks: Dwell Time for Personalization
  by X. Yi, L. Hong, E. Zhong, N. Nan Liu and S. Rajan (Best Paper)

2013

• A Fast Parallel SGD for Matrix Factorization in Shared Memory Systems
  by Y. Zhuang, W. Chin, Y. Juan and C. Lin (Best Paper)

2012

• CLiMF: Learning to Maximize Reciprocal Rank with Collaborative Less-is-More Filtering
  by Y. Shi, A. Karatzoglou, L. Baltrunas, M. Larson, N. Oliver and A. Hanjalic (Best Paper)
• Using Graph Partitioning Techniques for Neighbour Selection in User-Based Collaborative Filtering
  by A. Bellogin and J. Parapar (Best Short Paper)
• Alternating Least Squares for Personalized Ranking
  by G. Takács and D. Tikk (Honorable Mention)
• Ranking With Non-Random Missing Ratings: Influence Of Popularity And Positivity on Evaluation Metrics
  by B. Pradel, N. Usunier and P. Gallinari (Honorable Mention)

2011

• OrdRec: An Ordinal Model for Predicting Personalized Item Rating Distributions
  by Y. Koren and J. Sill (Best Paper)
• Utilizing Related Product for Post-Purchase Recommendation in E-commerce
  by J. Wang, B. Sarwar and N. Sundaresan (Best Short Paper)

2010

• A Matrix Factorization Technique with Trust Propagation for Recommendation in Social Networks by M. Jamali and M. Ester (Best Paper)
• Merging Multiple Criteria to Identify Suspicious Reviews
  *by G. Wu, D. Greene and P. Cunningham *(Best Short Paper)
• The Network Effects of Recommending Social Connections
  by E. Daly, W. Geyer and D. Millen (Best Short Paper)

2009

• Collaborative Prediction and Ranking with Non-Random Missing Data
  by B. Marlin and R. Zemel (Best Paper)
• Understanding the Effect of Adaptive Preference Elicitation Methods on User Satisfaction of a Recommender System
  by B. Knijnenburg and M. Willemsen (Best Short Paper)