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Recommendation systems have become ubiquitous in today's online world and are an integral part of practically every e-commerce platform. While traditional recommender systems use customer history, this approach is not feasible in 'cold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Michael Shekasta , Gilad Katz , Asnat Greenstein-Messica , Lior Rokach , Bracha Shapira

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

How can we recommend cold-start bundles to users? The cold-start problem in bundle recommendation is crucial because new bundles are continuously created on the Web for various marketing purposes. Despite its importance, existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hyunsik Jeon , Jong-eun Lee , Jeongin Yun , U Kang

In many machine learning applications, labeling datasets can be an arduous and time-consuming task. Although research has shown that semi-supervised learning techniques can achieve high accuracy with very few labels within the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Evelyn J. Mannix , Howard D. Bondell

Although Recommender Systems have been comprehensively studied in the past decade both in industry and academia, most of current recommender systems suffer from the following issues: 1) The data sparsity of the user-item matrix seriously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ze Wang , Hong Li

In multi-task learning several related tasks are considered simultaneously, with the hope that by an appropriate sharing of information across tasks, each task may benefit from the others. In the context of learning linear functions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-09-12 Laurent Jacob , Francis Bach , Jean-Philippe Vert

Learning recommender systems with multi-class optimization objective is a prevalent setting in recommendation. However, as observed user feedback often accounts for a tiny fraction of the entire item pool, the standard Softmax loss tends to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Hao Zhang , Mingyue Cheng , Qi Liu , Yucong Luo , Rui Li , Enhong Chen

Sharing information between multiple tasks enables algorithms to achieve good generalization performance even from small amounts of training data. However, in a realistic scenario of multi-task learning not all tasks are equally related to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-12-04 Anastasia Pentina , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Christoph H. Lampert

Personalized learning is a student-centered educational approach that adapts content, pace, and assessment to meet each learner's unique needs. As the key technique to implement the personalized learning, learning path recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Afsana Nasrin , Lijun Qian , Pamela Obiomon , Xishuang Dong

As music has become more available especially on music streaming platforms, people have started to have distinct preferences to fit to their varying listening situations, also known as context. Hence, there has been a growing interest in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Karim M. Ibrahim , Elena V. Epure , Geoffroy Peeters , Gaël Richard

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

With the rise of e-commerce and short videos, online recommender systems that can capture users' interests and update new items in real-time play an increasingly important role. In both online and offline recommendation systems, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yunze Luo , Yuezihan Jiang , Yinjie Jiang , Gaode Chen , Jingchi Wang , Kaigui Bian , Peiyi Li , Qi Zhang

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a set of items to each user. However, the sparser interactions between users and bundles raise a big challenge, especially in cold-start scenarios. Traditional collaborative filtering methods do not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tuan-Nghia Bui , Huy-Son Nguyen , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le

Recommender system plays a crucial role in modern E-commerce platform. Due to the lack of historical interactions between users and items, cold-start recommendation is a challenging problem. In order to alleviate the cold-start issue, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Luo Ji , Qin Qi , Bingqing Han , Hongxia Yang

Cold-start problem is a fundamental challenge for recommendation tasks. The recent self-supervised learning (SSL) on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) model, PT-GNN, pre-trains the GNN model to reconstruct the cold-start embeddings and has shown…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Bowen Hao , Hongzhi Yin , Jing Zhang , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Cold-start has being a critical issue in recommender systems with the explosion of data in e-commerce. Most existing studies proposed to alleviate the cold-start problem are also known as hybrid recommender systems that learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Yan Zhang , Ivor W. Tsang , Lixin Duan

In recent years, bundle recommendation systems have gained significant attention in both academia and industry due to their ability to enhance user experience and increase sales by recommending a set of items as a bundle rather than…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Meng Sun , Lin Li , Ming Li , Xiaohui Tao , Dong Zhang , Qing Xie , Peipei Wang , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Deep learning is very data hungry, and supervised learning especially requires massive labeled data to work well. Machine listening research often suffers from limited labeled data problem, as human annotations are costly to acquire, and…

Sound · Computer Science 2021-02-08 Ho-Hsiang Wu , Chieh-Chi Kao , Qingming Tang , Ming Sun , Brian McFee , Juan Pablo Bello , Chao Wang

Cold temperatures during fall and spring have the potential to cause frost damage to grapevines and other fruit plants, which can significantly decrease harvest yields. To help prevent these losses, farmers deploy expensive frost mitigation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Aseem Saxena , Paola Pesantez-Cabrera , Rohan Ballapragada , Kin-Ho Lam , Markus Keller , Alan Fern

We consider the problem of optimal decision referrals in human-automation teams performing binary classification tasks. The automation, which includes a pre-trained classifier, observes data for a batch of independent tasks, analyzes them,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Kesav Kaza , Jerome Le Ny , Aditya Mahajan