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Among the machine learning applications to business, recommender systems would take one of the top places when it comes to success and adoption. They help the user in accelerating the process of search while helping businesses maximize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Kiran Rama , Pradeep Kumar , Bharat Bhasker

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

State-of-the-art music recommender systems are based on collaborative filtering, which builds upon learning similarities between users and songs from the available listening data. These approaches inherently face the cold-start problem, as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Paul Magron , Cédric Févotte

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a core component of popular web-based services such as Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, and Twitter. Most applications use CF to recommend a small set of items to the user. For instance, YouTube presents to a user a…

Collaborative filtering problems are commonly solved based on matrix completion techniques which recover the missing values of user-item interaction matrices. In a matrix, the rating position specifically represents the user given and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Taejun Lim , Siqu Long , Josiah Poon , Soyeon Caren Han

Forecasting multivariate time series data, which involves predicting future values of variables over time using historical data, has significant practical applications. Although deep learning-based models have shown promise in this field,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zahra Fatemi , Minh Huynh , Elena Zheleva , Zamir Syed , Xiaojun Di

Recently, matrix factorization-based recommendation methods have been criticized for the problem raised by the triangle inequality violation. Although several metric learning-based approaches have been proposed to overcome this issue,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Chanyoung Park , Donghyun Kim , Xing Xie , Hwanjo Yu

Recommender system is a very promising way to address the problem of overabundant information for online users. Though the information filtering for the online commercial systems received much attention recently, almost all of the previous…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-12-20 Fuguo Zhang , An Zeng

The quality of learned features by representation learning determines the performance of learning algorithms and the related application tasks (such as high-dimensional data clustering). As a relatively new paradigm for representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Zhao Zhang , Yan Zhang , Mingliang Xu , Li Zhang , Yi Yang , Shuicheng Yan

Classic resource recommenders like Collaborative Filtering (CF) treat users as being just another entity, neglecting non-linear user-resource dynamics shaping attention and interpretation. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Paul Seitlinger , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi , Tobias Ley , Elisabeth Lex

Personalized recommendation is ubiquitous, playing an important role in many online services. Substantial research has been dedicated to learning vector representations of users and items with the goal of predicting a user's preference for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianing Sun , Yingxue Zhang , Chen Ma , Mark Coates , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He

The growth of recommender systems (RecSys) is driven by digitization and the need for personalized content in areas such as e-commerce and video streaming. The content in these systems often changes rapidly and therefore they constantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shiyu Wang , Hao Ding , Yupeng Gu , Sergul Aydore , Kousha Kalantari , Branislav Kveton

Matrix factorization (MF), a cornerstone of recommender systems, decomposes user-item interaction matrices into latent representations. Traditional MF approaches, however, employ a two-stage, non-end-to-end paradigm, sequentially performing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shangde Gao , Ke Liu , Yichao Fu , Hongxia Xu , Jian Wu

The cold start problem in recommender systems is a long-standing challenge, which requires recommending to new users (items) based on attributes without any historical interaction records. In these recommendation systems, warm users (items)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Shuai Wang , Kun Zhang , Le Wu , Haiping Ma , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Playlist recommendation involves producing a set of songs that a user might enjoy. We investigate this problem in three cold-start scenarios: (i) cold playlists, where we recommend songs to form new personalised playlists for an existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Dawei Chen , Cheng Soon Ong , Aditya Krishna Menon

Item-item collaborative filtering (CF) models are a well known and studied family of recommender systems, however current literature does not provide any theoretical explanation of the conditions under which item-based recommendations will…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Recommender systems are often designed based on a collaborative filtering approach, where user preferences are predicted by modelling interactions between users and items. Many common approaches to solve the collaborative filtering task are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yinchong Yang , Florian Buettner

The past few years have witnessed the great success of recommender systems, which can significantly help users find out personalized items for them from the information era. One of the most widely applied recommendation methods is the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Chu-Xu Zhang , Zi-Ke Zhang , Lu Yu , Chuang Liu , Hao Liu , Xiao-Yong Yan

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

Facebook Marketplace is quickly gaining momentum among consumers as a favored customer-to-customer (C2C) product trading platform. The recommendation system behind it helps to significantly improve the user experience. Building the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Lu Zheng , Zhao Tan , Kun Han , Ren Mao