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arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational7 October 2026

Evidence Before Sampling: Interpretable Implicit Negative Candidate Discovery for Recommendation

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arXiv:2610.07708v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recommender systems learn from observed user-item interactions, but explicit negative feedback is often unavailable. Since deep learning models require negative signals for training, negative sampling methods typically treat selected unobserved interactions as negatives. However, a missing interaction does not explain why a user is uninterested in an item or whether there is sufficient evidence to label it negative. This is especially important in business recommendation, where negative signals should be interpretable and aligned with business ob
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