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Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however, suffer from cold-start problems where no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stuart E. Middleton , Harith Alani , David C. De Roure

Recommender systems use data on past user preferences to predict possible future likes and interests. A key challenge is that while the most useful individual recommendations are to be found among diverse niche objects, the most reliably…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2010-03-15 Tao Zhou , Zoltan Kuscsik , Jian-Guo Liu , Matus Medo , Joseph R. Wakeling , Yi-Cheng Zhang

Multimodal learning has shown promising performance in content-based recommendation due to the auxiliary user and item information of multiple modalities such as text and images. However, the problem of incomplete and missing modality is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cheng Wang , Mathias Niepert , Hui Li

Online reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly popular for the personalized mobile health (mHealth) intervention. It is able to personalize the type and dose of interventions according to user's ongoing statuses and changing needs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Feiyun Zhu , Peng Liao

In recommender systems, a cold-start problem occurs when there is no past interaction record associated with the user or item. Typical solutions to the cold-start problem make use of contextual information, such as user demographic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Yihong Zhang , Takuya Maekawa , Takahiro Hara

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction on cold users is a challenging task in recommender systems. Recent researches have resorted to meta-learning to tackle the cold-user challenge, which either perform few-shot user representation learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-31 Yanyan Shen , Lifan Zhao , Weiyu Cheng , Zibin Zhang , Wenwen Zhou , Kangyi Lin

User preferences for items can be inferred from either explicit feedback, such as item ratings, or implicit feedback, such as rental histories. Research in collaborative filtering has concentrated on explicit feedback, resulting in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Andriy Mnih , Yee Whye Teh

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

In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for tackling the cold-start collaborative filtering problem, where unknown targets (items or users) keep coming to the system, and there is a limited number of resources (users or items)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Xiaoxue Zhao , Jun Wang

One of the main challenges in Recommender Systems (RSs) is the New User problem which happens when the system has to generate personalised recommendations for a new user whom the system has no information about. Active Learning tries to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Roberto Pagano , Massimo Quadrana , Mehdi Elahi , Paolo Cremonesi

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Mohammmadmahdi Maheri , Reza Abdollahzadeh , Bardia Mohammadi , Mina Rafiei , Jafar Habibi , Hamid R. Rabiee

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become an integral part of modern software development, enhancing developer productivity and accelerating time-to-market. However, identifying suitable candidates from a rapidly growing and continuously…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Minh Hoang Vuong , Anh M. T. Bui , Phuong T. Nguyen , Davide Di Ruscio

User and item reviews are valuable for the construction of recommender systems. In general, existing review-based methods for recommendation can be broadly categorized into two groups: the siamese models that build static user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Hansi Zeng , Zhichao Xu , Qingyao Ai

While recommendation systems generally observe user behavior passively, there has been an increased interest in directly querying users to learn their specific preferences. In such settings, considering queries at different levels of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Yuheng Bu , Kevin Small

Pinterest is a leading visual discovery platform where recommender systems (RecSys) are key to delivering relevant, engaging, and fresh content to our users. In this paper, we study the problem of improving RecSys model predictions for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Saeed Ebrahimi , Weijie Jiang , Jaewon Yang , Olafur Gudmundsson , Yucheng Tu , Huizhong Duan

With the emergence of personality computing as a new research field related to artificial intelligence and personality psychology, we have witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of personality-aware recommendation systems. Unlike…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Sahraoui Dhelim , Nyothiri Aung , Mohammed Amine Bouras , Huansheng Ning , Erik Cambria

The cold-start problem has been commonly recognized in recommendation systems and studied by following a general idea to leverage the abundant interaction records of warm users to infer the preference of cold users. However, the performance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Taicheng Guo , Lu Yu , Basem Shihada , Xiangliang Zhang

Cold-start problems are long-standing challenges for practical recommendations. Most existing recommendation algorithms rely on extensive observed data and are brittle to recommendation scenarios with few interactions. This paper addresses…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Zhengxiao Du , Xiaowei Wang , Hongxia Yang , Jingren Zhou , Jie Tang

Facebook Marketplace is quickly gaining momentum among consumers as a favored customer-to-customer (C2C) product trading platform. The recommendation system behind it helps to significantly improve the user experience. Building the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Lu Zheng , Zhao Tan , Kun Han , Ren Mao

Sequential recommendation is a fundamental task for network applications, and it usually suffers from the item cold start problem due to the insufficiency of user feedbacks. There are currently three kinds of popular approaches which are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Qiang Cui , Shu Wu , Qiang Liu , Wen Zhong , Liang Wang