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The data scarcity of user preferences and the cold-start problem often appear in real-world applications and limit the recommendation accuracy of collaborative filtering strategies. Leveraging the selections of social friends and foes can…

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Music recommender systems have become a key technology supporting the access to increasingly larger music catalogs in on-line music streaming services, on-line music shops, and private collections. The interaction of users with large music…

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With the development of Internet technology and the expansion of social networks, online platforms have become an important way for people to obtain information. The introduction of tags facilitates information categorization and retrieval.…

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Social recommendation leverages social information to solve data sparsity and cold-start problems in traditional collaborative filtering methods. However, most existing models assume that social effects from friend users are static and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Qitian Wu , Hengrui Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Peng He , Paul Weng , Han Gao , Guihai Chen

The recent program development industries have required problem-solving abilities for engineers, especially application developers. However, AI-based education systems to help solve computer algorithm problems have not yet attracted…

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The task of recommending items to a group of users, a.k.a. group recommendation, is receiving increasing attention. However, the cold-start problem inherent in recommender systems is amplified in group recommendation because interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guo linxin , Tao yinghui , Gao Min , Yu Junliang , Zhao liang , Li Wentao

Precise recommendation of followers helps in improving the user experience and maintaining the prosperity of twitter and microblog platforms. In this paper, we design a hybrid recommender system of microblog as a solution of KDD Cup 2012,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Yingzhen Li , Ye Zhang

Online Q&A and open source communities use tags and keywords to index, categorize, and search for specific content. The most obvious advantage of tag recommendation is the correct classification of information. In this study, we used the…

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With the growing data on the Internet, recommender systems have been able to predict users' preferences and offer related movies. Collaborative filtering is one of the most popular algorithms in these systems. The main purpose of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Mostafa Khalaji

A major challenge in recommender systems is handling new users, whom are also called $\textit{cold-start}$ users. In this paper, we propose a novel approach for learning an optimal series of questions with which to interview cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Hima Varsha Dureddy , Zachary Kaden

How to make the best decision between the opinions and tastes of your friends and acquaintances? Therefore, recommender systems are used to solve such issues. The common algorithms use a similarity measure to predict active users' tastes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Mostafa Khalaji , Nilufar Mohammadnejad

Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however, suffer from cold-start problems where no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stuart E. Middleton , Harith Alani , David C. De Roure

The paper briefly introduces multiple classifier systems and describes a new algorithm, which improves classification accuracy by means of recommendation of a proper algorithm to an object classification. This recommendation is done…

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Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become an integral part of modern software development, enhancing developer productivity and accelerating time-to-market. However, identifying suitable candidates from a rapidly growing and continuously…

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Cold-start challenges in recommender systems necessitate leveraging auxiliary features beyond user-item interactions. However, the presence of irrelevant or noisy features can degrade predictive performance, whereas an excessive number of…

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A common challenge for most current recommender systems is the cold-start problem. Due to the lack of user-item interactions, the fine-tuned recommender systems are unable to handle situations with new users or new items. Recently, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Manqing Dong , Feng Yuan , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

User-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to create recommender systems. This approach is based on finding the most relevant k users from whose rating history we can extract items to recommend. CF,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Tomislav Duricic , Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Elisabeth Lex

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in optimizing long-term user interest in recommender systems. However, existing RL-based recommendation methods need a large number of interactions for each user to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yanan Wang , Yong Ge , Li Li , Rui Chen , Tong Xu

Recommender systems use data on past user preferences to predict possible future likes and interests. A key challenge is that while the most useful individual recommendations are to be found among diverse niche objects, the most reliably…

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Pinterest is a leading visual discovery platform where recommender systems (RecSys) are key to delivering relevant, engaging, and fresh content to our users. In this paper, we study the problem of improving RecSys model predictions for…

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