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Matrix factorization (MF) is a classical collaborative filtering algorithm for recommender systems. It decomposes the user-item interaction matrix into a product of low-dimensional user representation matrix and item representation matrix.…

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Collaborative filtering generates recommendations by exploiting user-item similarities based on rating data, which often contains numerous unrated items. To predict scores for unrated items, matrix factorization techniques such as…

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Recommendation models can effectively estimate underlying user interests and predict one's future behaviors by factorizing an observed user-item rating matrix into products of two sets of latent factors. However, the user-specific embedding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Qitian Wu , Hengrui Zhang , Xiaofeng Gao , Junchi Yan , Hongyuan Zha

Matrix factorization (MS) is a collaborative filtering (CF) based approach, which is widely used for recommendation systems (RS). In this research work, we deal with the content recommendation problem for users in a content management…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-25 Debashish Roy , Rajarshi Roy Chowdhury , Abdullah Bin Nasser , Afdhal Azmi , Marzieh Babaeianjelodar

In recent years, neural networks and other complex models have dominated recommender systems, often setting new benchmarks for state-of-the-art performance. Yet, despite these advancements, award-winning research has demonstrated that…

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Recently, word embedding algorithms have been applied to map the entities of recommender systems, such as users and items, to new feature spaces using textual element-context relations among them. Unlike many other domains, this approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-06 Arash Khoeini , Bita Shams , Saman Haratizadeh

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

Recommending items to potentially interested users has been an important commercial task that faces two main challenges: accuracy and explainability. While most collaborative filtering models rely on statistical computations on a large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Lei Pan , Von-Wun Soo

Matrix factorization has found incredible success and widespread application as a collaborative filtering based approach to recommendations. Unfortunately, incorporating additional sources of evidence, especially ones that are incomplete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Nitish Gupta , Sameer Singh

Matrix factorization (MF) is extensively used to mine the user preference from explicit ratings in recommender systems. However, the reliability of explicit ratings is not always consistent, because many factors may affect the user's final…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Zhipeng Wu , Hui Tian , Xuzhen Zhu , Shuo Wang

The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. As a promising solution, content-based generative models usually project a cold-start item's content onto a warm-start item embedding to capture collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Zhihui Zhou , Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang

Recommender systems face a critical challenge in the item cold-start problem, which limits content diversity and exacerbates popularity bias by struggling to recommend new items. While existing solutions often rely on auxiliary data, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dong Wang , Junyi Jiao , Arnab Bhadury , Yaping Zhang , Mingyan Gao , Onkar Dalal

A huge amount of user generated content related to movies is created with the popularization of web 2.0. With these continues exponential growth of data, there is an inevitable need for recommender systems as people find it difficult to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Lasitha Uyangoda , Supunmali Ahangama , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Learning a good representation of text is key to many recommendation applications. Examples include news recommendation where texts to be recommended are constantly published everyday. However, most existing recommendation techniques, such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Ting Chen , Liangjie Hong , Yue Shi , Yizhou Sun

Matrix factorization has now become a dominant solution for personalized recommendation on the Social Web. To alleviate the cold start problem, previous approaches have incorporated various additional sources of information into traditional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Zhenghua Xu , Cheng Chen , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Yishu Miao

Recommender systems are an essential component of e-commerce marketplaces, helping consumers navigate massive amounts of inventory and find what they need or love. In this paper, we present an approach for generating personalized item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Tian Wang , Yuri M. Brovman , Sriganesh Madhvanath

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

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

Recommender systems can be formulated as a matrix completion problem, predicting ratings from user and item parameter vectors. Optimizing these parameters by subsampling data becomes difficult as the number of users and items grows. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Elias Tragas , Calvin Luo , Maxime Gazeau , Kevin Luk , David Duvenaud