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Personalized fashion recommendation is a difficult task because 1) the decisions are highly correlated with users' aesthetic appetite, which previous work frequently overlooks, and 2) many new items are constantly rolling out that cause…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chongxian Chen , Fan Mo , Xin Fan , Hayato Yamana

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

Recommender systems face a critical challenge in the item cold-start problem, which limits content diversity and exacerbates popularity bias by struggling to recommend new items. While existing solutions often rely on auxiliary data, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dong Wang , Junyi Jiao , Arnab Bhadury , Yaping Zhang , Mingyan Gao , Onkar Dalal

For tackling the well known cold-start user problem in model-based recommender systems, one approach is to recommend a few items to a cold-start user and use the feedback to learn a profile. The learned profile can then be used to make good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Sampoorna Biswas , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Senjuti Basu Ray

We describe a completely automated large scale visual recommendation system for fashion. Existing approaches have primarily relied on purely computational models to solving this problem that ignore the role of users in the system. In this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Anurag Bhardwaj , Vignesh Jagadeesh , Wei Di , Robinson Piramuthu , Elizabeth Churchill

Finding clothes that fit is a hot topic in the e-commerce fashion industry. Most approaches addressing this problem are based on statistical methods relying on historical data of articles purchased and returned to the store. Such approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Nour Karessli , Romain Guigourès , Reza Shirvany

Predicting Click-Through Rates is a crucial function within recommendation and advertising platforms, as the output of CTR prediction determines the order of items shown to users. The Embedding \& MLP paradigm has become a standard approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Wenqiao Zhu , Lulu Wang , Jun Wu

Visually-aware recommender systems use visual signals present in the underlying data to model the visual characteristics of items and users' preferences towards them. In the domain of clothing recommendation, incorporating items' visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-23 Charles Packer , Julian McAuley , Arnau Ramisa

Cold-start problem, which arises upon the new users arrival, is one of the fundamental problems in today's recommender approaches. Moreover, in some domains as TV or multime-dia-items take long time to experience by users, thus users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Juraj Visnovsky , Ondrej Kassak , Michal Kompan , Maria Bielikova

Accurately recommending products has long been a subject requiring in-depth research. This study proposes a multimodal paradigm for clothing recommendations. Specifically, it designs a multimodal analysis method that integrates clothing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Bingjie Huang , Qingyi Lu , Shuaishuai Huang , Xue-she Wang , Haowei Yang

Recommender systems have become an essential instrument in a wide range of industries to personalize the user experience. A significant issue that has captured both researchers' and industry experts' attention is the cold start problem for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ivan Maksimov , Rodrigo Rivera-Castro , Evgeny Burnaev

The item cold-start problem is critical for online recommendation systems, as the success of this phase determines whether high-quality new items can transition to popular ones, receive essential feedback to inspire creators, and thus lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yu-Ting Lan , Yang Huo , Yi Shen , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Pure methods generally perform excellently in either recommendation accuracy or diversity, whereas hybrid methods generally outperform pure cases in both recommendation accuracy and diversity, but encounter the dilemma of optimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Tian Qiu , Zi-Ke Zhang , Guang Chen

This paper proposes a cold start recommendation model that integrates contrastive learning, aiming to solve the problem of performance degradation of recommendation systems in cold start scenarios due to the scarcity of user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jiacheng Hu , Tai An , Zidong Yu , Junliang Du , Yuanshuai Luo

Active preference learning offers an efficient approach to modeling preferences, but it is hindered by the cold-start problem, which leads to a marked decline in performance when no initial labeled data are available. While cold-start…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mojtaba Fayaz-Bakhsh , Danial Ataee , MohammadAmin Fazli

A huge amount of user generated content related to movies is created with the popularization of web 2.0. With these continues exponential growth of data, there is an inevitable need for recommender systems as people find it difficult to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Lasitha Uyangoda , Supunmali Ahangama , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Traditional recommendation systems rely on past usage data in order to generate new recommendations. Those approaches fail to generate sensible recommendations for new users and items into the system due to missing information about their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ivica Obadić , Gjorgji Madjarov , Ivica Dimitrovski , Dejan Gjorgjevikj

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…

We propose a new approach that enables end users to directly solve the cold start problem by themselves. The cold start problem is a common issue in recommender systems, and many methods have been proposed to address the problem on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ryoma Sato

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is widely used in large-scale recommendation engines because of its efficiency, accuracy and scalability. However, in practice, the fact that recommendation engines based on CF require interactions between users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jianbo Yuan , Walid Shalaby , Mohammed Korayem , David Lin , Khalifeh AlJadda , Jiebo Luo
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