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We argue that Content-based filtering (CBF) and Graph-based methods (GB) complement one another in Academic Search recommendations. The scientific literature can be viewed as a conversation between authors and the audience. CBF uses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kenneth Church , Omar Alonso , Peter Vickers , Jiameng Sun , Abteen Ebrahimi , Raman Chandrasekar

An ensemble method that fuses the output decision vectors of multiple feedforward-designed convolutional neural networks (FF-CNNs) to solve the image classification problem is proposed in this work. To enhance the performance of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Yueru Chen , Yijing Yang , Wei Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Standard Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms make use of interactions between users and items in the form of implicit or explicit ratings alone for generating recommendations. Similarity among users or items is calculated purely based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-02-26 Jobin Wilson , Santanu Chaudhury , Brejesh Lall , Prateek Kapadia

Traditional Collaborative Filtering (CF) based methods are applied to understand the personal preferences of users/customers for items or products from the rating matrix. Usually, the rating matrix is sparse in nature. So there are some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Supriyo Mandal , Abyayananda Maiti

In this Letter, we introduce a modified collaborative filtering (MCF) algorithm, which has remarkably higher accuracy than the standard collaborative filtering. In the MCF, instead of the standard Pearson coefficient, the user-user…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-13 Jian-Guo Liu , Tao Zhou , Bing-Hong Wang , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Collaborative Filtering(CF) recommender is a crucial application in the online market and ecommerce. However, CF recommender has been proven to suffer from persistent problems related to sparsity of the user rating that will further lead to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Elliot Dang , Zheyuan Hu , Tong Li

Recommender systems often struggle with data sparsity and cold-start scenarios, limiting their ability to provide accurate suggestions for new or infrequent users. This paper presents a Graph Attention Network (GAT) based Collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Danial Ebrat , Sepideh Ahmadian , Luis Rueda

In this paper ensemble learning based feature selection and classifier ensemble model is proposed to improve classification accuracy. The hypothesis is that good feature sets contain features that are highly correlated with the class from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Tipawan Silwattananusarn , Wanida Kanarkard , Kulthida Tuamsuk

Social network websites, such as Facebook, YouTube, Lastfm etc, have become a popular platform for users to connect with each other and share content or opinions. They provide rich information for us to study the influence of user's social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Sanjay Purushotham , Yan Liu , C. -C. Jay Kuo

Learning by integrating multiple heterogeneous data sources is a common requirement in many tasks. Collective Matrix Factorization (CMF) is a technique to learn shared latent representations from arbitrary collections of matrices. It can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Ragunathan Mariappan , Vaibhav Rajan

Federated Learning is a new subfield of machine learning that allows fitting models without collecting the training data itself. Instead of sharing data, users collaboratively train a model by only sending weight updates to a server. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Florian Hartmann , Sunah Suh , Arkadiusz Komarzewski , Tim D. Smith , Ilana Segall

As the core of recommender system, collaborative filtering (CF) models the affinity between a user and an item from historical user-item interactions, such as clicks, purchases, and so on. Benefited from the strong representation power,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Xiaoyu Du , Xiangnan He , Fajie Yuan , Jinhui Tang , Zhiguang Qin , Tat-Seng Chua

Combining the predictions of collections of neural networks often outperforms the best single network. Such ensembles are typically trained independently, and their superior `wisdom of the crowd' originates from the differences between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Benjamin Brazowski , Elad Schneidman

Recommendation models can effectively estimate underlying user interests and predict one's future behaviors by factorizing an observed user-item rating matrix into products of two sets of latent factors. However, the user-specific embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qitian Wu , Hengrui Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering (CDCF) provides a way to alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems present in recommendation systems by exploiting the knowledge from related domains. Existing CDCF models are either based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Vijaikumar M , Shirish Shevade , M N Murty

Edge caching is a promising solution for next-generation networks by empowering caching units in small-cell base stations (SBSs), which allows user equipments (UEs) to fetch users' requested contents that have been pre-cached in SBSs. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Qiong Wu , Wenhua Wang , Pingyi Fan , Qiang Fan , Huiling Zhu , Khaled B. Letaief

We consider the problem of learning latent features (aka embedding) for users and items in a recommendation setting. Given only a user-item interaction graph, the goal is to recommend items for each user. Traditional approaches employ…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Rahul Ragesh , Sundararajan Sellamanickam , Vijay Lingam , Arun Iyer , Ramakrishna Bairi

Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most successful and fundamental techniques in recommendation systems. In recent years, Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based CF models, such as NGCF [31], LightGCN [10] and GTN [9] have achieved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Hao-Ming Fu , Patrick Poirson , Kwot Sin Lee , Chen Wang

Cooperative inference across independently deployed machine learning models is increasingly desirable in distributed environments, as there is a growing need to leverage multiple models while keeping their data and model parameters private.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yui Hashimoto , Takayuki Nishio , Yuichi Kitagawa , Takahito Tanimura

Collaborative filtering is one of the most used approaches for providing recommendations in various online environments. Even though collaborative recommendation methods have been widely utilized due to their simplicity and ease of use,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Nikolaos Polatidis , Christos K. Georgiadis