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Recommender systems can mitigate the information overload problem by suggesting users' personalized items. In real-world recommendations such as e-commerce, a typical interaction between the system and its users is -- users are recommended…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Xiangyu Zhao , Long Xia , Liang Zhang , Zhuoye Ding , Dawei Yin , Jiliang Tang

Collaborative filtering (CF) has achieved great success in the field of recommender systems. In recent years, many novel CF models, particularly those based on deep learning or graph techniques, have been proposed for a variety of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Haiyang Zhang , Ivan Ganchev , Nikola S. Nikolov , Mark Stevenson

Recommender systems have been investigated for many years, with the aim of generating the most accurate recommendations possible. However, available data about new users is often insufficient, leading to inaccurate recommendations; an issue…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Toon De Pessemier , Sander Vanhove , Luc Martens

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a set of items to each user. However, the sparser interactions between users and bundles raise a big challenge, especially in cold-start scenarios. Traditional collaborative filtering methods do not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tuan-Nghia Bui , Huy-Son Nguyen , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le

When a user connects to the Internet to fulfill his needs, he often encounters a huge amount of related information. Recommender systems are the techniques for massively filtering information and offering the items that users find them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Mahdi Kherad , Amir Jalaly Bidgoly

A model-based collaborative filtering (CF) approach utilizing fast adaptive randomized singular value decomposition (SVD) is proposed for the matrix completion problem in recommender system. Firstly, a fast adaptive PCA frameworkis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xiangyun Ding , Wenjian Yu , Yuyang Xie , Shenghua Liu

Collaborative filtering (CF), as a standard method for recommendation with implicit feedback, tackles a semi-supervised learning problem where most interaction data are unobserved. Such a nature makes existing approaches highly rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Chenxiao Yang , Qitian Wu , Jipeng Jin , Xiaofeng Gao , Junwei Pan , Guihai Chen

The cold-start problem remains a critical challenge in real-world recommender systems, as new items with limited interaction data or insufficient information are frequently introduced. Despite recent advances leveraging external knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wooseong Yang , Weizhi Zhang , Yuqing Liu , Yuwei Han , Yu Wang , Junhyun Lee , Philip S. Yu

Among various recommender techniques, collaborative filtering (CF) is the most successful one. And a key problem in CF is how to represent users and items. Previous works usually represent a user (an item) as a vector of latent factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Gongshan He , Dongxing Zhao , Lixin Ding

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully used to provide users with personalized products and services. However, dealing with the increasing sparseness of user-item matrix still remains a challenge. To tackle such issue, hybrid CF…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu

Collaborative filtering (CF) allows the preferences of multiple users to be pooled to make recommendations regarding unseen products. We consider in this paper the problem of online and interactive CF: given the current ratings associated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Craig Boutilier , Richard S. Zemel , Benjamin Marlin

Item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) enjoys the advantages of high recommendation accuracy and ease in online penalization and thus is favored by the industrial recommender systems. ICF recommends items to a target user based on their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zhiyong Cheng , Fan Liu , Shenghan Mei , Yangyang Guo , Lei Zhu , Liqiang Nie

Recommendation efficiency and data sparsity problems have been regarded as two challenges of improving performance for online recommendation. Most of the previous related work focus on improving recommendation accuracy instead of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yan Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Hongzhi Yin , Guowu Yang , Defu Lian , Jingjing Li

Matrix factorization is a popular method to build a recommender system. In such a system, existing users and items are associated to a low-dimension vector called a profile. The profiles of a user and of an item can be combined (via inner…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Fabrice Benhamouda , Marc Joye

We present a novel dynamic recommendation model that focuses on users who have interactions in the past but turn relatively inactive recently. Making effective recommendations to these time-sensitive cold-start users is critical to maintain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Krishna Prasad Neupane , Ervine Zheng , Yu Kong , Qi Yu

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction has been one of the most central problems in computational advertising. Lately, embedding techniques that produce low-dimensional representations of ad IDs drastically improve CTR prediction accuracies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Feiyang Pan , Shuokai Li , Xiang Ao , Pingzhong Tang , Qing He

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

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

With the rapid growth of digital information, personalized recommendation systems have become an indispensable part of Internet services, especially in the fields of e-commerce, social media, and online entertainment. However, traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yuanshuai Luo , Rui Wang , Yaxin Liang , Ankai Liang , Wenyi Liu

This paper proposes a decentralized recommender system by formulating the popular collaborative filleting (CF) model into a decentralized matrix completion form over a set of users. In such a way, data storages and computations are fully…

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