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Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most used methods for Recommender System. Because of the Bayesian nature and nonlinearity, deep generative models, e.g. Variational Autoencoder (VAE), have been applied into CF task, and have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-26 Teng Xiao , Shangsong Liang , Hong Shen , Zaiqiao Meng

Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to build a recommendation system. In this paper, we propose a hybrid collaborative filtering model based on a Makovian random walk to address the data sparsity and cold…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Shang Shang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Paul W. Cuff , Pan Hui

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most commonly used recommendation methods. CF consists in predicting whether, or how much, a user will like (or dislike) an item by leveraging the knowledge of the user's preferences as well as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek , Esther Pacitti , Maximilien Servajean , Florent Masseglia , Amr El Abbadi

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

User and item cold starts present significant challenges in industrial applications of recommendation systems. Supplementing user-item interaction data with metadata is a common solution-but often at the cost of introducing additional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Edward DongBo Cui , Lu Zhang , William Ping-hsun Lee

Collaborative filtering is the simplest but oldest machine learning algorithm in the field of recommender systems. In spite of its long history, it remains a discussion topic in research venues. Usually people use users/items whose…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Hao Wang

Integrating automatic speech scoring/assessment systems has become a critical aspect of second-language speaking education. With self-supervised learning advancements, end-to-end speech scoring approaches have exhibited promising results.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Jungbae Park , Seungtaek Choi

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Hao Wang , Naiyan Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung

Collaborative Filtering(CF) recommender is a crucial application in the online market and ecommerce. However, CF recommender has been proven to suffer from persistent problems related to sparsity of the user rating that will further lead to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Elliot Dang , Zheyuan Hu , Tong Li

In general, recommendation can be viewed as a matching problem, i.e., match proper items for proper users. However, due to the huge semantic gap between users and items, it's almost impossible to directly match users and items in their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Zhi-Hong Deng , Ling Huang , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Recommender systems often struggle with data sparsity and cold-start scenarios, limiting their ability to provide accurate suggestions for new or infrequent users. This paper presents a Graph Attention Network (GAT) based Collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Danial Ebrat , Sepideh Ahmadian , Luis Rueda

Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in recommender systems, whose objective is to provide personalized item suggestions to potential users based on their purchase or browsing history. However, personalized recommendations require…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Osama Alshareet , A. Ben Hamza

The cold-start problem is quite challenging for existing recommendation models. Specifically, for the new items with only a few interactions, their ID embeddings are trained inadequately, leading to poor recommendation performance. Some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Haonan Hu , Dazhong Rong , Jianhai Chen , Qinming He , Zhenguang Liu

Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Cesare Bernardis , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Recently, embedding techniques have achieved impressive success in recommender systems. However, the embedding techniques are data demanding and suffer from the cold-start problem. Especially, for the cold-start item which only has limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yongchun Zhu , Ruobing Xie , Fuzhen Zhuang , Kaikai Ge , Ying Sun , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Juan Cao

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

Many of the traditional recommendation algorithms are designed based on the fundamental idea of mining or learning correlative patterns from data to estimate the user-item correlative preference. However, pure correlative learning may lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shuyuan Xu , Yingqiang Ge , Yunqi Li , Zuohui Fu , Xu Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Deep neural networks have seen tremendous success for different modalities of data including images, videos, and speech. This success has led to their deployment in mobile and embedded systems for real-time applications. However, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-31 Nitthilan Kannappan Jayakodi , Anwesha Chatterjee , Wonje Choi , Janardhan Rao Doppa , Partha Pratim Pande

The item cold-start problem poses a fundamental challenge for music recommendation: newly added tracks lack the interaction history that collaborative filtering (CF) requires. Existing approaches often address this problem by learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yan-Martin Tamm , Gregor Meehan , Vojtěch Nekl , Vojtěch Vančura , Rodrigo Alves , Johan Pauwels , Anna Aljanaki

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