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This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu

Recommender systems help users deal with information overload by providing tailored item suggestions to them. The recommendation of news is often considered to be challenging, since the relevance of an article for a user can depend on a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira , Dietmar Jannach , Adilson Marques da Cunha

We address the cold start problem in recommendation systems assuming no contextual information is available neither about users, nor items. We consider the case in which we only have access to a set of ratings of items by users. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Jérémie Mary , Romaric Gaudel , Preux Philippe

In the Sequential Selection Problem (SSP), immediate and irrevocable decisions need to be made as candidates randomly arrive for a job interview. Standard SSP variants, such as the well-known secretary problem, begin with an empty selection…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Mathilde Fekom , Nicolas Vayatis , Argyris Kalogeratos

As one of major challenges, cold-start problem plagues nearly all recommender systems. In particular, new items will be overlooked, impeding the development of new products online. Given limited resources, how to utilize the knowledge of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jin-Hu Liu , Tao Zhou , Zi-Ke Zhang , Zimo Yang , Chuang Liu , Wei-Min 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

Web recommendation services bear great importance in e-commerce, as they aid the user in navigating through the items that are most relevant to her needs. In a typical Web site, long history of previous activities or purchases by the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Bálint Daróczy , Frederick Ayala-Gómez , András Benczúr

Selecting appropriate physical models is a critical yet difficult step in many areas of computational science and engineering. In multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), practitioners must choose among numerous closure model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 S. Hänsch , A. Sajdoková , A. Rębowski , F. Miškařík , K. Ramakrishna , F. Schlegel , V. Rybář , R. Alves , P. Kordík

In this work, we present an approach for mining user preferences and recommendation based on reviews. There have been various studies worked on recommendation problem. However, most of the studies beyond one aspect user generated- content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Xuan-Son Vu , Seong-Bae Park

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

In recent years, social media users have spent significant amounts of time on short-form video platforms. As a result, established platforms in other domains, such as e-commerce, have begun introducing short-form video content to engage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Andrii Dzhoha , Katya Mirylenka , Egor Malykh , Marco-Andrea Buchmann , Francesca Catino

Recommending cold items remains a significant challenge in billion-scale online recommendation systems. While warm items benefit from historical user behaviors, cold items rely solely on content features, limiting their recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Feiran Huang , Yuanchen Bei , Zhenghang Yang , Junyi Jiang , Hao Chen , Qijie Shen , Senzhang Wang , Fakhri Karray , Philip S. Yu

News recommender systems are designed to surface relevant information for online readers by personalizing their user experiences. A particular problem in that context is that online readers are often anonymous, which means that this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Gabriel de Souza P. Moreira , Dietmar Jannach , Adilson Marques da Cunha

Cold-start problem, which arises upon the new users arrival, is one of the fundamental problems in today's recommender approaches. Moreover, in some domains as TV or multime-dia-items take long time to experience by users, thus users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Juraj Visnovsky , Ondrej Kassak , Michal Kompan , Maria Bielikova

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

Recommender systems are widely applied in digital platforms such as news websites to personalize services based on user preferences. In news websites most of users are anonymous and the only available data is sequences of items in anonymous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Alireza Gharahighehi , Celine Vens

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

Recommender systems aim to fulfill the user's daily demands. While most existing research focuses on maximizing the user's engagement with the system, it has recently been pointed out that how frequently the users come back for the service…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Ziru Liu , Shuchang Liu , Bin Yang , Zhenghai Xue , Qingpeng Cai , Xiangyu Zhao , Zijian Zhang , Lantao Hu , Han Li , Peng Jiang

Recommender systems have become an essential instrument in a wide range of industries to personalize the user experience. A significant issue that has captured both researchers' and industry experts' attention is the cold start problem for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ivan Maksimov , Rodrigo Rivera-Castro , Evgeny Burnaev

Recommender systems are software tools used to generate and provide suggestions for items and other entities to the users by exploiting various strategies. Hybrid recommender systems combine two or more recommendation strategies in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Erion Çano , Maurizio Morisio