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Traditional collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems tend to perform poorly when the user-item interactions/ratings are highly scarce. To address this, we propose a learning framework that improves collaborative filtering with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Wenlin Wang , Hongteng Xu , Ruiyi Zhang , Wenqi Wang , Piyush Rai , Lawrence Carin

This paper proposes a decentralized recommender system by formulating the popular collaborative filleting (CF) model into a decentralized matrix completion form over a set of users. In such a way, data storages and computations are fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Zhangyang Wang , Xianming Liu , Shiyu Chang , Jiayu Zhou , Guo-Jun Qi , Thomas S. Huang

Collaborative filtering (CF) and content-based filtering (CBF) have widely been used in information filtering applications. Both approaches have their strengths and weaknesses which is why researchers have developed hybrid systems. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Kai Yu , Anton Schwaighofer , Volker Tresp , Wei-Ying Ma , HongJiang Zhang

Classical collaborative filtering, and content-based filtering methods try to learn a static recommendation model given training data. These approaches are far from ideal in highly dynamic recommendation domains such as news recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Shuai Li , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Claudio Gentile

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully used to provide users with personalized products and services. However, dealing with the increasing sparseness of user-item matrix still remains a challenge. To tackle such issue, hybrid CF…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Shuai Zhang , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu

Matrix factorization (MF) is a common method for collaborative filtering. MF represents user preferences and item attributes by latent factors. Despite that MF is a powerful method, it suffers from not be able to identifying strong…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Binh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

Recent studies empirically indicate that language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge beyond mere semantics, attracting significant attention across various fields. However, in the recommendation domain, it remains uncertain whether…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Leheng Sheng , An Zhang , Yi Zhang , Yuxin Chen , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

In this paper, several Collaborative Filtering (CF) approaches with latent variable methods were studied using user-item interactions to capture important hidden variations of the sparse customer purchasing behaviours. The latent factors…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Karthik Raja Kalaiselvi Bhaskar , Deepa Kundur , Yuri Lawryshyn

Personalized decision-making can be implemented in a Federated learning (FL) framework that can collaboratively train a decision model by extracting knowledge across intelligent clients, e.g. smartphones or enterprises. FL can mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Guodong Long , Ming Xie , Tao Shen , Tianyi Zhou , Xianzhi Wang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a popular technique in today's recommender systems, and matrix approximation-based CF methods have achieved great success in both rating prediction and top-N recommendation tasks. However, real-world…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Dongsheng Li , Chao Chen , Qin Lv , Junchi Yan , Li Shang , Stephen M. Chu

Recommendation systems aim to provide personalized predictions by identifying items that are most appealing to individual users. Among various recommendation approaches, k-nearest-neighbor (kNN)-based collaborative filtering (CF) remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Yongyu Wang

Personalized recommendation is ubiquitous, playing an important role in many online services. Substantial research has been dedicated to learning vector representations of users and items with the goal of predicting a user's preference for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jianing Sun , Yingxue Zhang , Chen Ma , Mark Coates , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Xiuqiang He

Generative models have shown great promise in collaborative filtering by capturing the underlying distribution of user interests and preferences. However, existing approaches struggle with inaccurate posterior approximations and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Jianling Wang , Rex Ying , James Caverlee

Two main challenges in recommender systems are modeling users with heterogeneous taste, and providing explainable recommendations. In this paper, we propose the neural Attentive Multi-Persona Collaborative Filtering (AMP-CF) model as a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Oren Barkan , Yonatan Fuchs , Avi Caciularu , Noam Koenigstein

We present a general approach for collaborative filtering (CF) using spectral regularization to learn linear operators from "users" to the "objects" they rate. Recent low-rank type matrix completion approaches to CF are shown to be special…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-19 Jacob Abernethy , Francis Bach , Theodoros Evgeniou , Jean-Philippe Vert

Collaborative filtering (CF), as a fundamental approach for recommender systems, is usually built on the latent factor model with learnable parameters to predict users' preferences towards items. However, designing a proper CF model for a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Chen Gao , Quanming Yao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Collaborative filtering is the most popular approach for recommender systems. One way to perform collaborative filtering is matrix factorization, which characterizes user preferences and item attributes using latent vectors. These latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-15 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Kenro Aihara , Atsuhiro Takasu

In the world of big data, many people find it difficult to access the information they need quickly and accurately. In order to overcome this, research on the system that recommends information accurately to users is continuously conducted.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Keum Gang Cha , Soo-Ryeon Lee , Jung-Woo Lee , Seung Bin Baik

Product recommendation systems are important for major movie studios during the movie greenlight process and as part of machine learning personalization pipelines. Collaborative Filtering (CF) models have proved to be effective at powering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Miguel Campo , JJ Espinoza , Julie Rieger , Abhinav Taliyan

Item-based collaborative filtering (ICF) enjoys the advantages of high recommendation accuracy and ease in online penalization and thus is favored by the industrial recommender systems. ICF recommends items to a target user based on their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zhiyong Cheng , Fan Liu , Shenghan Mei , Yangyang Guo , Lei Zhu , Liqiang Nie