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User cold-start recommendation is a long-standing challenge for recommender systems due to the fact that only a few interactions of cold-start users can be exploited. Recent studies seek to address this challenge from the perspective of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Xixun Lin , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan , Yanan Cao , Bin Wang

The exponential growth of volume, variety and velocity of data is raising the need for investigations of automated or semi-automated ways to extract useful patterns from the data. It requires deep expert knowledge and extensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Abbas Raza Ali , Marcin Budka , Bogdan Gabrys

The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems due to the lack of user-item interactions, which significantly hurts the recommendation effect over new users and items. Recently, meta-learning based methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuxiang Shi , Yue Ding , Bo Chen , Yuyang Huang , Yule Wang , Ruiming Tang , Dong Wang

We present a novel dynamic recommendation model that focuses on users who have interactions in the past but turn relatively inactive recently. Making effective recommendations to these time-sensitive cold-start users is critical to maintain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Krishna Prasad Neupane , Ervine Zheng , Yu Kong , Qi Yu

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

The effectiveness of recommender system algorithms varies in different real-world scenarios. It is difficult to choose a best algorithm for a scenario due to the quantity of algorithms available, and because of their varying performances.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-19 Andrew Collins , Joeran Beel

In recommender systems, cold-start issues are situations where no previous events, e.g. ratings, are known for certain users or items. In this paper, we focus on the item cold-start problem. Both content information (e.g. item attributes)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Yu Zhu , Jinhao Lin , Shibi He , Beidou Wang , Ziyu Guan , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

Online recommender systems should be always aligned with users' current interest to accurately suggest items that each user would like. Since user interest usually evolves over time, the update strategy should be flexible to quickly catch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Minseok Kim , Hwanjun Song , Yooju Shin , Dongmin Park , Kijung Shin , Jae-Gil Lee

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

Loss function learning is a new meta-learning paradigm that aims to automate the essential task of designing a loss function for a machine learning model. Existing techniques for loss function learning have shown promising results, often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Christian Raymond , Qi Chen , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Practical recommender systems experience a cold-start problem when observed user-item interactions in the history are insufficient. Meta learning, especially gradient based one, can be adopted to tackle this problem by learning initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xidong Feng , Chen Chen , Dong Li , Mengchen Zhao , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang

One of the most challenging recommendation tasks is recommending to a new, previously unseen user. This is known as the 'user cold start' problem. Assuming certain features or attributes of users are known, one approach for handling new…

Large-scale Electronic Health Record (EHR) databases have become indispensable in supporting clinical decision-making through data-driven treatment recommendations. However, existing medication recommender methods often struggle with a user…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Arya Hadizadeh Moghaddam , Mohsen Nayebi Kerdabadi , Dongjie Wang , Mei Liu , Zijun Yao

Cold-start recommendation is one of the major challenges faced by recommender systems (RS). Herein, we focus on the user cold-start problem. Recently, methods utilizing side information or meta-learning have been used to model cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiangyu Zhang , Zongqiang Kuang , Zehao Zhang , Fan Huang , Xianfeng Tan

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

For many machine learning algorithms, predictive performance is critically affected by the hyperparameter values used to train them. However, tuning these hyperparameters can come at a high computational cost, especially on larger datasets,…

Cold-start item recommendation is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. A common remedy is to use a content-based approach, but rich information from raw contents in various forms has not been fully utilized. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jooeun Kim , Jinri Kim , Kwangeun Yeo , Eungi Kim , Kyoung-Woon On , Jonghwan Mun , Joonseok Lee

A central capability of intelligent systems is the ability to continuously build upon previous experiences to speed up and enhance learning of new tasks. Two distinct research paradigms have studied this question. Meta-learning views this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Chelsea Finn , Aravind Rajeswaran , Sham Kakade , Sergey Levine

The Algorithm Selection Problem for recommender systems-choosing the best algorithm for a given user or context-remains a significant challenge. Traditional meta-learning approaches often treat algorithms as categorical choices, ignoring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jarne Mathi Decker , Joeran Beel

An effective online recommendation system should jointly capture users' long-term and short-term preferences in both users' internal behaviors (from the target recommendation task) and external behaviors (from other tasks). However, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ruobing Xie , Yalong Wang , Rui Wang , Yuanfu Lu , Yuanhang Zou , Feng Xia , Leyu Lin