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One of the most challenging problems in recommender systems based on the collaborative filtering (CF) concept is data sparseness, i.e., limited user preference data is available for making recommendations. Cross-domain collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-12-25 Yue Shi , Martha Larson , Alan Hanjalic

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

Cross-domain recommendation has been proposed to transfer user behavior pattern by pooling together the rating data from multiple domains to alleviate the sparsity problem appearing in single rating domains. However, previous models only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-09-26 Siting Ren , Sheng Gao

Many of the traditional recommendation algorithms are designed based on the fundamental idea of mining or learning correlative patterns from data to estimate the user-item correlative preference. However, pure correlative learning may lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Yunqi Li , Zuohui Fu , Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Collaborative Filtering is the most widely used prediction technique in Recommendation System. Most of the current CF recommender systems maintains single criteria user rating in user item matrix. However, recent studies indicate that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Dheeraj kumar Bokde , Sheetal Girase , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

While a user's preference is directly reflected in the interactive choice process between her and the recommender, this wealth of information was not fully exploited for learning recommender models. In particular, existing collaborative…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-03-01 Shuang Hong Yang

Collaborative Filtering is largely applied to personalize item recommendation but its performance is affected by the sparsity of rating data. In order to address this issue, recent systems have been developed to improve recommendation by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Noemi Mauro , Liliana Ardissono

Collaborative Filtering (CF), the most common approach to build Recommender Systems, became pervasive in our daily lives as consumers of products and services. However, challenges limit the effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Miguel G. Silva , Rui Henriques , Sara C. Madeira

Automatic solutions which enable the selection of the best algorithms for a new problem are commonly found in the literature. One research area which has recently received considerable efforts is Collaborative Filtering. Existing work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Tiago Cunha , Carlos Soares , André C. P. L. F. de Carvalho

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 based on collaborative filtering play a vital role in many E-commerce applications as they guide the user in finding their items of interest based on the user's past transactions and feedback of other similar customers.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Sowmini Devi Veeramachaneni , Arun K Pujari , Vineet Padmanabhan , Vikas Kumar

Collaborative filtering (CF) allows the preferences of multiple users to be pooled to make recommendations regarding unseen products. We consider in this paper the problem of online and interactive CF: given the current ratings associated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Craig Boutilier , Richard S. Zemel , Benjamin Marlin

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely adopted technique in recommender systems. Traditional CF models mainly focus on predicting a user's preference to the items in a single domain such as the movie domain or the music domain. A major…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Xinghua Wang , Zhaohui Peng , Senzhang Wang , Philip S. Yu , Wenjing Fu , Xiaoguang Hong

In general, recommendation can be viewed as a matching problem, i.e., match proper items for proper users. However, due to the huge semantic gap between users and items, it's almost impossible to directly match users and items in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhi-Hong Deng , Ling Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems play an important role in many scenarios where users are overwhelmed with too many choices to make. In this context, Collaborative Filtering (CF) arises by providing a simple and widely used approach for personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Gustavo R. Lima , Carlos E. Mello , Geraldo Zimbrao

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Hao Wang , Naiyan Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung

Agentic recommendations cast recommenders as large language model (LLM) agents that can plan, reason, use tools, and interact with users of varying preferences in web applications. However, most existing agentic recommender systems focus on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Yu Xia , Sungchul Kim , Tong Yu , Ryan A. Rossi , Julian McAuley

Matrix factorization (MF) is a common method for collaborative filtering. MF represents user preferences and item attributes by latent factors. Despite that MF is a powerful method, it suffers from not be able to identifying strong…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Binh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

Collaborative filtering generates recommendations by exploiting user-item similarities based on rating data, which often contains numerous unrated items. To predict scores for unrated items, matrix factorization techniques such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 Yukino Terui , Yuka Inoue , Yohei Hamakawa , Kosuke Tatsumura , Kazue Kudo

Collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF) have widely been used in information filtering applications. Both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses which is why researchers have developed hybrid systems. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Kai Yu , Anton Schwaighofer , Volker Tresp , Wei-Ying Ma , HongJiang Zhang