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Matrix factorization is a simple and effective solution to the recommendation problem. It has been extensively employed in the industry and has attracted much attention from the academia. However, it is unclear what the low-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-29 Farhan Khawar , Nevin L. Zhang

Cold start problem in Collaborative Filtering can be solved by asking new users to rate a small seed set of representative items or by asking representative users to rate a new item. The question is how to build a seed set that can give…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Alexander Fonarev , Alexander Mikhalev , Pavel Serdyukov , Gleb Gusev , Ivan Oseledets

This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu

Recommendation systems personalise suggestions to individuals to help them in their decision making and exploration tasks. In the ideal case, these recommendations, besides of being accurate, should also be novel and explainable. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-26 Ludovik Coba , Panagiotis Symeonidis , Markus Zanker

Recommender systems are widely used to recommend the most appealing items to users. These recommendations can be generated by applying collaborative filtering methods. The low-rank matrix completion method is the state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Mohit Sharma , George Karypis

Recently, linear regression models, such as EASE and SLIM, have shown to often produce rather competitive results against more sophisticated deep learning models. On the other side, the (weighted) matrix factorization approaches have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Ruoming Jin , Dong Li , Jing Gao , Zhi Liu , Li Chen , Yang Zhou

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

Matrix factorization (MF) is one of the most efficient methods for rating predictions. MF learns user and item representations by factorizing the user-item rating matrix. Further, textual contents are integrated to conventional MF to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

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

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

Matrix factorization (MF), a cornerstone of recommender systems, decomposes user-item interaction matrices into latent representations. Traditional MF approaches, however, employ a two-stage, non-end-to-end paradigm, sequentially performing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shangde Gao , Ke Liu , Yichao Fu , Hongxia Xu , Jian Wu

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

In this paper we propose to solve an important problem in recommendation -- user cold start, based on meta leaning method. Previous meta learning approaches finetune all parameters for each new user, which is both computing and storage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Zhao , Yang Wang , Daxiang Dong , Hao Tian

Product recommendation systems are important for major movie studios during the movie greenlight process and as part of machine learning personalization pipelines. Collaborative Filtering (CF) models have proved to be effective at powering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Miguel Campo , JJ Espinoza , Julie Rieger , Abhinav Taliyan

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

Federated recommendation addresses the data silo and privacy problems altogether for recommender systems. Current federated recommender systems mainly utilize cryptographic or obfuscation methods to protect the original ratings from…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Liu Yang , Junxue Zhang , Di Chai , Leye Wang , Kun Guo , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

Recommender systems are one of the most applied methods in machine learning and find applications in many areas, ranging from economics to the Internet of things. This article provides a general overview of modern approaches to recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Irina Beregovskaya , Mikhail Koroteev

Recommender systems are often designed based on a collaborative filtering approach, where user preferences are predicted by modelling interactions between users and items. Many common approaches to solve the collaborative filtering task are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Yinchong Yang , Florian Buettner

Matrix Factorization has been very successful in practical recommendation applications and e-commerce. Due to data shortage and stringent regulations, it can be hard to collect sufficient data to build performant recommender systems for a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Dashan Gao , Ben Tan , Ce Ju , Vincent W. Zheng , Qiang Yang

Recommender systems struggle to provide accurate suggestions to new users with limited interaction history, a challenge known as the cold-user problem. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach using Double and Dueling Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Minda Zhao