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We showcase a novel solution to a recommendation system problem where we face a perpetual soft item cold start issue. Our system aims to recommend demanded products to prospective sellers for listing in Amazon stores. These products always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Faizan Ahemad

In this paper, based on the user-tag-object tripartite graphs, we propose a recommendation algorithm, which considers social tags as an important role for information retrieval. Besides its low cost of computational time, the experiment…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-06-19 Zi-Ke Zhang , Chuang Liu , Yi-Cheng Zhang , Tao Zhou

Online job boards are one of the central components of modern recruitment industry. With millions of candidates browsing through job postings everyday, the need for accurate, effective, meaningful, and transparent job recommendations is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Walid Shalaby , BahaaEddin AlAila , Mohammed Korayem , Layla Pournajaf , Khalifeh AlJadda , Shannon Quinn , Wlodek Zadrozny

Cold-start problem is a fundamental challenge for recommendation tasks. Despite the recent advances on Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) incorporate the high-order collaborative signal to alleviate the problem, the embeddings of the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Bowen Hao , Jing Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Encoder-decoder deep neural networks have been increasingly studied for multi-horizon time series forecasting, especially in real-world applications. However, to forecast accurately, these sophisticated models typically rely on a large…

Solving cold-start problems is indispensable to provide meaningful recommendation results for new users and items. Under sparsely observed data, unobserved user-item pairs are also a vital source for distilling latent users' information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Riku Togashi , Mayu Otani , Shin'ichi Satoh

The task of recommending items to a group of users, a.k.a. group recommendation, is receiving increasing attention. However, the cold-start problem inherent in recommender systems is amplified in group recommendation because interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Guo linxin , Tao yinghui , Gao Min , Yu Junliang , Zhao liang , Li Wentao

A major challenge in collaborative filtering methods is how to produce recommendations for cold items (items with no ratings), or integrate cold item into an existing catalog. Over the years, a variety of hybrid recommendation models have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Oren Barkan , Roy Hirsch , Ori Katz , Avi Caciularu , Jonathan Weill , Noam Koenigstein

The Recommender system is a vital information service on today's Internet. Recently, graph neural networks have emerged as the leading approach for recommender systems. We try to review recent literature on graph neural network-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Haojun Zhu , Vikram Kapoor , Priya Sharma

Recommender system is one of the most important information services on today's Internet. Recently, graph neural networks have become the new state-of-the-art approach to recommender systems. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Chen Gao , Yu Zheng , Nian Li , Yinfeng Li , Yingrong Qin , Jinghua Piao , Yuhan Quan , Jianxin Chang , Depeng Jin , Xiangnan He , Yong Li

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

With the explosive growth of online information, recommender systems play a key role to alleviate such information overload. Due to the important application value of recommender systems, there have always been emerging works in this field.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Shiwen Wu , Fei Sun , Wentao Zhang , Xu Xie , Bin Cui

Recommender systems suffer from the cold-start problem whenever a new user joins the platform or a new item is added to the catalog. To address item cold-start, we propose to replace the embedding layer in sequential recommenders with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Kuba Weimann , Tim O. F. Conrad

We address the cold start problem in recommendation systems assuming no contextual information is available neither about users, nor items. We consider the case in which we only have access to a set of ratings of items by users. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Jérémie Mary , Romaric Gaudel , Preux Philippe

Many sequential recommender systems suffer from the cold start problem, where items with few or no interactions cannot be effectively used by the model due to the absence of a trained embedding. Content-based approaches, which leverage item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Anton Pembek , Artem Fatkulin , Anton Klenitskiy , Alexey Vasilev

Among the machine learning applications to business, recommender systems would take one of the top places when it comes to success and adoption. They help the user in accelerating the process of search while helping businesses maximize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Kiran Rama , Pradeep Kumar , Bharat Bhasker

Recommender systems are a vital tool that helps us to overcome the information overload problem. They are being used by most e-commerce web sites and attract the interest of a broad scientific community. A recommender system uses data on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Fei Yu , An Zeng , Sebastien Gillard , Matus Medo

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

Tripartite graph-based recommender systems markedly diverge from traditional models by recommending unique combinations such as user groups and item bundles. Despite their effectiveness, these systems exacerbate the longstanding cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Linxin Guo , Yaochen Zhu , Min Gao , Yinghui Tao , Junliang Yu , Chen Chen

In recommendation systems, new items are continuously introduced, initially lacking interaction records but gradually accumulating them over time. Accurately predicting the click-through rate (CTR) for these items is crucial for enhancing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yaqing Wang , Hongming Piao , Daxiang Dong , Quanming Yao , Jingbo Zhou