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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

Recent advances in research have demonstrated the effectiveness of knowledge graphs (KG) in providing valuable external knowledge to improve recommendation systems (RS). A knowledge graph is capable of encoding high-order relations that…

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Conversational recommender system (CRS), which combines the techniques of dialogue system and recommender system, has obtained increasing interest recently. In contrast to traditional recommender system, it learns the user preference better…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yunwen Xia , Hui Fang , Jie Zhang , Chong Long

Mitigating the new user cold-start problem has been critical in the recommendation system for online service providers to influence user experience in decision making which can ultimately affect the intention of users to use a particular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Po-Lin Lai , Chih-Yun Chen , Liang-Wei Lo , Chien-Chin Chen

To alleviate the cold start problem caused by collaborative filtering in recommender systems, knowledge graphs (KGs) are increasingly employed by many methods as auxiliary resources. However, existing work incorporated with KGs cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Xinze Lyu , Guangyao Li , Jiacheng Huang , Wei Hu

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have become important auxiliary information for helping recommender systems obtain a good understanding of user preferences. Despite recent advances in KG-based recommender systems, existing methods are prone to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Xuhui Ren , Wei Yuan , Tong Chen , Chaoqun Yang , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

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

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

Knowledge graph (KG) plays an increasingly important role to improve the recommendation performance and interpretability. A recent technical trend is to design end-to-end models based on information propagation schemes. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Yuntao Du , Xinjun Zhu , Lu Chen , Baihua Zheng , Yunjun Gao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved state-of-the-art results for semi-supervised node classification on graphs. Nevertheless, the challenge of how to effectively learn GNNs with very few labels is still under-explored. As one of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Yayong Li , Jie Yin , Ling Chen

Knowledge graphs (KGs) have proven to be effective for high-quality recommendation, where the connectivities between users and items provide rich and complementary information to user-item interactions. Most existing methods, however, are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Xiao Sha , Zhu Sun , Jie Zhang

\textit{Knowledge-aware} recommendation methods (KGR) based on \textit{graph neural networks} (GNNs) and \textit{contrastive learning} (CL) have achieved promising performance. However, they fall short in modeling fine-grained user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Taotian Pang , Xingyu Lou , Fei Zhao , Zhen Wu , Kuiyao Dong , Qiuying Peng , Yue Qi , Xinyu Dai

In recommender systems, knowledge graph (KG) can offer critical information that is lacking in the original user-item interaction graph (IG). Recent process has explored this direction and shows that contrastive learning is a promising way…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Haibo Ye , Xinjie Li , Yuan Yao , Hanghang Tong

The task of Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC) aims to automatically infer the missing fact information in Knowledge Graph (KG). In this paper, we take a new perspective that aims to leverage rich user-item interaction data (user interaction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Gaole He , Junyi Li , Wayne Xin Zhao , Peiju Liu , Ji-Rong Wen

Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Cesare Bernardis , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

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

Interactive recommender system (IRS) has drawn huge attention because of its flexible recommendation strategy and the consideration of optimal long-term user experiences. To deal with the dynamic user preference and optimize accumulative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Sijin Zhou , Xinyi Dai , Haokun Chen , Weinan Zhang , Kan Ren , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He , Yong Yu

Cold start is an essential and persistent problem in recommender systems. State-of-the-art solutions rely on training hybrid models for both cold-start and existing users/items, based on the auxiliary information. Such a hybrid model would…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Hao Chen , Zefan Wang , Yue Xu , Xiao Huang , Feiran Huang

Cold-start recommendation remains a central challenge in dynamic, open-world platforms, requiring models to recommend for newly registered users (user cold-start) and to recommend newly introduced items to existing users (item cold-start)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhen Zhang , Jujia Zhao , Xinyu Ma , Xin Xin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

As a pivotal tool to alleviate the information overload problem, recommender systems aim to predict user's preferred items from millions of candidates by analyzing observed user-item relations. As for alleviating the sparsity and cold start…

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