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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

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

The application of machine learning techniques to large-scale personalized recommendation problems is a challenging task. Such systems must make sense of enormous amounts of implicit feedback in order to understand user preferences across…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Thom Lake , Sinead A. Williamson , Alexander T. Hawk , Christopher C. Johnson , Benjamin P. Wing

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

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

Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recommendations. Due to the diversification of internet platforms…

An Item based recommender system works by computing a similarity between items, which can exploit past user interactions (collaborative filtering) or item features (content based filtering). Collaborative algorithms have been proven to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Alberto Gasparin , Paolo Cremonesi

Recommender systems are crucial to alleviate the information overload problem in online worlds. Most of the modern recommender systems capture users' preference towards items via their interactions based on collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Dawei Yin , Jianping Wang , Jiliang Tang , Qing Li

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

Privacy-preserving recommendations are recently gaining momentum, since the decentralized user data is increasingly harder to collect, by recommendation service providers, due to the serious concerns over user privacy and data security.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Mingkai Huang , Hao Li , Bing Bai , Chang Wang , Kun Bai , Fei Wang

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in optimizing long-term user interest in recommender systems. However, existing RL-based recommendation methods need a large number of interactions for each user to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yanan Wang , Yong Ge , Li Li , Rui Chen , Tong Xu

Mitigating the new user cold-start problem has been critical in the recommendation system for online service providers to influence user experience in decision making which can ultimately affect the intention of users to use a particular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Po-Lin Lai , Chih-Yun Chen , Liang-Wei Lo , Chien-Chin Chen

This paper contributes to addressing the item cold start problem in large-scale recommender systems, focusing on how to efficiently gain initial visibility for newly ingested content. We propose an exploration system designed to efficiently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Dong Wang , Junyi Jiao , Arnab Bhadury , Yaping Zhang , Mingyan Gao

Deep neural network based recommendation systems have achieved great success as information filtering techniques in recent years. However, since model training from scratch requires sufficient data, deep learning-based recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Chunyang Wang , Yanmin Zhu , Haobing Liu , Tianzi Zang , Jiadi Yu , Feilong Tang

In the WWW (World Wide Web), dynamic development and spread of data has resulted a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet, yet user is unable to find relevant information in a short span of time. Consequently, a system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Denis Selimi , Krenare Pireva Nuci

Cold-start has being a critical issue in recommender systems with the explosion of data in e-commerce. Most existing studies proposed to alleviate the cold-start problem are also known as hybrid recommender systems that learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yan Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Lixin Duan

Many sequential recommender systems suffer from the cold start problem, where items with few or no interactions cannot be effectively used by the model due to the absence of a trained embedding. Content-based approaches, which leverage item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Anton Pembek , Artem Fatkulin , Anton Klenitskiy , Alexey Vasilev

Item cold-start is a pervasive challenge for collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems. Existing methods often train cold-start models by mapping auxiliary item content, such as images or text descriptions, into the embedding space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Gregor Meehan , Johan Pauwels

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is widely used in recommender systems to model user-item interactions. With the great success of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in various fields, advanced works recently have proposed several DNN-based models for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yuhan Fang , Yuqiao Liu , Yanan Sun

Product recommendation systems are important for major movie studios during the movie greenlight process and as part of machine learning personalization pipelines. Collaborative Filtering (CF) models have proved to be effective at powering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Miguel Campo , JJ Espinoza , Julie Rieger , Abhinav Taliyan