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Pure methods generally perform excellently in either recommendation accuracy or diversity, whereas hybrid methods generally outperform pure cases in both recommendation accuracy and diversity, but encounter the dilemma of optimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Tian Qiu , Zi-Ke Zhang , Guang Chen

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Nikita Sukhorukov , Danil Gusak , Evgeny Frolov

In recent years, neural networks and other complex models have dominated recommender systems, often setting new benchmarks for state-of-the-art performance. Yet, despite these advancements, award-winning research has demonstrated that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Pedro R. Pires , Rafael T. Sereicikas , Gregorio F. Azevedo , Tiago A. Almeida

Cold-start problem is a fundamental challenge for recommendation tasks. Despite the recent advances on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) incorporate the high-order collaborative signal to alleviate the problem, the embeddings of the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Bowen Hao , Jing Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

The item cold-start problem is critical for online recommendation systems, as the success of this phase determines whether high-quality new items can transition to popular ones, receive essential feedback to inspire creators, and thus lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yu-Ting Lan , Yang Huo , Yi Shen , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Recommender systems often use latent features to explain the behaviors of users and capture the properties of items. As users interact with different items over time, user and item features can influence each other, evolve and co-evolve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Hanjun Dai , Yichen Wang , Rakshit Trivedi , Le Song

Matrix completion is a classic problem underlying recommender systems. It is traditionally tackled with matrix factorization. Recently, deep learning based methods, especially graph neural networks, have made impressive progress on this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Tieyun Qian , Yile Liang , Qing Li

Cold-start recommendation remains a central challenge in dynamic, open-world platforms, requiring models to recommend for newly registered users (user cold-start) and to recommend newly introduced items to existing users (item cold-start)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhen Zhang , Jujia Zhao , Xinyu Ma , Xin Xin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

The item cold-start problem is crucial for online recommender systems, as the success of the cold-start phase determines whether items can transition into popular ones. Prompt learning, a powerful technique used in natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuezihan Jiang , Gaode Chen , Wenhan Zhang , Jingchi Wang , Yinjie Jiang , Qi Zhang , Jingjian Lin , Peng Jiang , Kaigui Bian

Cold-start recommendation is one of the major challenges faced by recommender systems (RS). Herein, we focus on the user cold-start problem. Recently, methods utilizing side information or meta-learning have been used to model cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiangyu Zhang , Zongqiang Kuang , Zehao Zhang , Fan Huang , Xianfeng Tan

Recommender systems are essential information technologies today, and recommendation algorithms combined with deep learning have become a research hotspot in this field. The recommendation model known as LFM (Latent Factor Model), which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Junyi Liu

Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to build a recommendation system. In this paper, we propose a hybrid collaborative filtering model based on a Makovian random walk to address the data sparsity and cold…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Shang Shang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Paul W. Cuff , Pan Hui

Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach for recommender systems. One way to perform collaborative filtering is matrix factorization, which characterizes user preferences and item attributes using latent vectors. These latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-15 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Kenro Aihara , Atsuhiro Takasu

Cold-start item recommendation is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. A common remedy is to use a content-based approach, but rich information from raw contents in various forms has not been fully utilized. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jooeun Kim , Jinri Kim , Kwangeun Yeo , Eungi Kim , Kyoung-Woon On , Jonghwan Mun , Joonseok Lee

This survey provides an examination of the use of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) in Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommendation systems. As the digital world increasingly relies on data-driven approaches, traditional CF techniques face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Pang Li , Shahrul Azman Mohd Noah , Hafiz Mohd Sarim

Accurate prediction of users' responses to items is one of the main aims of many computational advising applications. Examples include recommending movies, news articles, songs, jobs, clothes, books and so forth. Accurate prediction of…

Applications · Statistics 2022-12-20 Baode Gao , Guangpeng Zhan , Hanzhang Wang , Yiming Wang , Shengxin Zhu

The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. As a promising solution, content-based generative models usually project a cold-start item's content onto a warm-start item embedding to capture collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Zhihui Zhou , Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang

Collaborative Filtering (CF) based recommendation methods have been widely studied, which can be generally categorized into two types, i.e., representation learning-based CF methods and matching function learning-based CF methods.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi-Yuan Hu , Jin Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Chang-Dong Wang , Ling Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

This work addresses the problem of tracking maneuvering objects with complex motion patterns, a task in which conventional methods often struggle due to their reliance on predefined motion models. We integrate a data-driven liquid neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-30 Minti Liu , Qinghua Guo , Cao Zeng , Yanguang Yu , Jun Li , Ming Jin

While multivariate logistic regression classifiers are a great way of implementing collaborative filtering - a method of making automatic predictions about the interests of a user by collecting preferences or taste information from many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Arya Chakraborty