Countering Interest Over-Smoothing: Distilling Latent Factors via Diffusion for Multi-Interest Retrieval.

@inproceedings{le-2026-countering, author = {Yankun Le and Haoran Li and Zihao Zhao and Fu Zhang and Baoyuan Ou and Yi Jing and Haoran Li and Zihao Zhao and Maarten de Rijke and Zhixuan Yang and Baoyuan Ou and Yi Jing and Jiancan Wu and Ruilong Su and Yingjie Qin and Maarten de Rijke and Zhixuan Yang and Jiancan Wu and Ruilong Su}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Countering Interest Over-Smoothing: Distilling Latent Factors via Diffusion for Multi-Interest Retrieval}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {881--890}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809736}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809736} }