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Collaborative filtering is used to recommend items to a user without requiring a knowledge of the item itself and tends to outperform other techniques. However, collaborative filtering suffers from the cold-start problem, which occurs when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-06-10 Michael R. Smith , Tony Martinez , Michael Gashler

To leverage user behavior data from the Internet more effectively in recommender systems, this paper proposes a novel collaborative filtering (CF) method called Local Collaborative Filtering (LCF). LCF utilizes local similarities among…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhaoxin Shen , Dan Wu

Collaborative filtering is an effective recommendation approach in which the preference of a user on an item is predicted based on the preferences of other users with similar interests. A big challenge in using collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yu Zhang , Bin Cao , Dit-Yan Yeung

The data scarcity of user preferences and the cold-start problem often appear in real-world applications and limit the recommendation accuracy of collaborative filtering strategies. Leveraging the selections of social friends and foes can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Dimitrios Rafailidis

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

Collaborative filtering algorithms haven been widely used in recommender systems. However, they often suffer from the data sparsity and cold start problems. With the increasing popularity of social media, these problems may be solved by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-12-25 Chen Luo , Wei Pang , Zhe Wang

Many bipartite networks describe systems where an edge represents a relation between a user and an item. Measuring the similarity between either users or items is the basis of memory-based collaborative filtering, a widely used method to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Giambattista Albora , Lavinia Rossi-Mori , Andrea Zaccaria

There is much empirical evidence that item-item collaborative filtering works well in practice. Motivated to understand this, we provide a framework to design and analyze various recommendation algorithms. The setup amounts to online binary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Guy Bresler , Devavrat Shah , Luis F. Voloch

Giving or recommending appropriate content based on the quality of experience is the most important and challenging issue in recommender systems. As collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most prominent and popular techniques used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Cong Tran , Jang-Young Kim , Won-Yong Shin , Sang-Wook Kim

In Recommender Systems research, algorithms are often characterized as either Collaborative Filtering (CF) or Content Based (CB). CF algorithms are trained using a dataset of user preferences while CB algorithms are typically based on item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Oren Barkan , Noam Koenigstein , Eylon Yogev , Ori Katz

One of the most efficient methods in collaborative filtering is matrix factorization, which finds the latent vector representations of users and items based on the ratings of users to items. However, a matrix factorization based algorithm…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-15 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

The essence of the challenges cold start and sparsity in Recommender Systems (RS) is that the extant techniques, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Matrix Factorization (MF), mainly rely on the user-item rating matrix, which sometimes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Fangfang Li , Guandong Xu , Longbing Cao

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a core component of popular web-based services such as Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, and Twitter. Most applications use CF to recommend a small set of items to the user. For instance, YouTube presents to a user a…

Recommendation systems aim to provide personalized predictions by identifying items that are most appealing to individual users. Among various recommendation approaches, k-nearest-neighbor (kNN)-based collaborative filtering (CF) remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongyu Wang

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

Collaborative Filtering is largely applied to personalize item recommendation but its performance is affected by the sparsity of rating data. In order to address this issue, recent systems have been developed to improve recommendation by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Noemi Mauro , Liliana Ardissono

Collaborative Filtering (CF) models lie at the core of most recommendation systems due to their state-of-the-art accuracy. They are commonly adopted in e-commerce and online services for their impact on sales volume and/or diversity, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Yashar Deldjoo , Tommaso Di Noia , Felice Antonio Merra

Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods dominate real-world recommender systems given their ability to learn high-quality, sparse ID-embedding tables that effectively capture user preferences. These tables scale linearly with the number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Donald Loveland , Xinyi Wu , Tong Zhao , Danai Koutra , Neil Shah , Mingxuan Ju

Collaborative Filtering aims at exploiting the feedback of users to provide personalised recommendations. Such algorithms look for latent variables in a large sparse matrix of ratings. They can be enhanced by adding side information to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-20 Florian Strub , Jeremie Mary , Romaric Gaudel

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