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In this paper, based on the user-tag-object tripartite graphs, we propose a recommendation algorithm, which considers social tags as an important role for information retrieval. Besides its low cost of computational time, the experiment…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Zi-Ke Zhang , Chuang Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Tao Zhou

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

How to make the best decision between the opinions and tastes of your friends and acquaintances? Therefore, recommender systems are used to solve such issues. The common algorithms use a similarity measure to predict active users' tastes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Mostafa Khalaji , Nilufar Mohammadnejad

Recommender system is an applicable technique in most E-commerce commercial product technical designs. However, nearly all recommender system faces a challenge called the cold-start problem. The problem is so notorious that almost every…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hao Wang

The cold-start user issue further compromises the effectiveness of recommender systems in limiting access to the historical behavioral information. It is an effective pipeline to optimize instructional prompts on a few-shot large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Haowei Yang , Yushang Zhao , Sitao Min , Bo Su , Chao Yao , Wei Xu

During the past a few years, users' membership in the online system (i.e. the social groups that online users joined) are wildly investigated. Most of these works focus on the detection, formulation and growth of online communities. In this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Wei Zeng , An Zeng , Ming-Sheng Shang , Yi-Cheng Zhang

In recent years, research has been done on applying Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) as recommender systems. Results have been promising, especially in the session-based setting where RNNs have been shown to outperform state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Massimiliano Ruocco , Ole Steinar Lillestøl Skrede , Helge Langseth

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

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims at interconnecting everyday objects (including both things and users) and then using this connection information to provide customized user services. However, IoT does not work in its initial stages without…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Daqiang Zhang , Qin Zou , Haoyi Xiong

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 recommendation task predicts a personalized ranking over a set of items for each individual user. One paradigm is the rating-based methods that concentrate on explicit feedbacks and hence face the difficulties in collecting them.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Guang-Neng Hu , Xin-Yu Dai

Current state of the art algorithms for recommender systems are mainly based on collaborative filtering, which exploits user ratings to discover latent factors in the data. These algorithms unfortunately do not make effective use of other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Javier Maroto , Clément Vignac , Pascal Frossard

Matrix factorization is one of the most efficient approaches in recommender systems. However, such algorithms, which rely on the interactions between users and items, perform poorly for "cold-users" (users with little history of such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-18 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

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

In many digital contexts such as online news and e-tailing with many new users and items, recommendation systems face several challenges: i) how to make initial recommendations to users with little or no response history (i.e., cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Boya Xu , Yiting Deng , Carl Mela

We consider the information filtering problem, in which we face a stream of items, and must decide which ones to forward to a user to maximize the number of relevant items shown, minus a penalty for each irrelevant item shown. Forwarding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-31 Xiaoting Zhao , Peter I. Frazier

A fundamental challenge for sequential recommenders is to capture the sequential patterns of users toward modeling how users transit among items. In many practical scenarios, however, there are a great number of cold-start users with only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jianling Wang , Kaize Ding , James Caverlee

Personalized recommendations for new users, also known as the cold-start problem, can be formulated as a contextual bandit problem. Existing contextual bandit algorithms generally rely on features alone to capture user variability. Such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-25 Li Zhou , Emma Brunskill

Federated recommendation system usually trains a global model on the server without direct access to users' private data on their own devices. However, this separation of the recommendation model and users' private data poses a challenge in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

For many recommender systems, the primary data source is a historical record of user clicks. The associated click matrix is often very sparse, as the number of users x products can be far larger than the number of clicks. Such sparsity is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Julien Monteil , Volodymyr Vaskovych , Wentao Lu , Anirban Majumder , Anton van den Hengel
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