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Algorithmic efficiency techniques such as distillation (\cite{hinton2015distillation}) are useful in improving model quality without increasing serving costs, provided a larger teacher model is available for a smaller student model to learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Khoa Trinh , Gaurav Menghani , Erik Vee

Despite the popularity of Collaborative Filtering (CF), CF-based methods are haunted by the \textit{cold-start} problem, which has a significantly negative impact on users' experiences with Recommender Systems (RS). In this paper, to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-09-03 Lei Zheng , Chun-Ta Lu , Fei Jiang , Jiawei Zhang , Philip S. Yu

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang

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

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

Item recommendation tasks are a widely studied topic. Recent developments in deep learning and spectral methods paved a path towards efficient graph embedding techniques. But little research has been done on applying these graph embedding…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Vishwas Sathish , Tanya Mehrotra , Simran Dhinwa , Bhaskarjyoti Das

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

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

While knowledge distillation has seen widespread use in pre-training and instruction tuning, its application to aligning language models with human preferences remains underexplored, particularly in the more realistic cross-tokenizer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Truong Nguyen , Phi Van Dat , Ngan Nguyen , Linh Ngo Van , Trung Le , Thanh Hong Nguyen

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

When a user connects to the Internet to fulfill his needs, he often encounters a huge amount of related information. Recommender systems are the techniques for massively filtering information and offering the items that users find them…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Mahdi Kherad , Amir Jalaly Bidgoly

Semi-supervised learning on graphs is an important problem in the machine learning area. In recent years, state-of-the-art classification methods based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown their superiority over traditional ones such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Cheng Yang , Jiawei Liu , Chuan Shi

In recent years, knowledge graph completion (KGC) models based on pre-trained language model (PLM) have shown promising results. However, the large number of parameters and high computational cost of PLM models pose challenges for their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Cunhang Fan , Yujie Chen , Jun Xue , Yonghui Kong , Jianhua Tao , Zhao Lv

Recently, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven their effectiveness for recommender systems. Existing studies have applied GNNs to capture collaborative relations in the data. However, in real-world scenarios, the relations in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Xiaohan Li , Zhiwei Liu , Stephen Guo , Zheng Liu , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu , Kannan Achan

While federated learning is promising for privacy-preserving collaborative learning without revealing local data, it remains vulnerable to white-box attacks and struggles to adapt to heterogeneous clients. Federated distillation (FD), built…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Jiawei Shao , Fangzhao Wu , Jun Zhang

Collaborative filtering (CF) models have demonstrated remarkable performance in recommender systems, which represent users and items as embedding vectors. Recently, due to the powerful modeling capability of graph neural networks for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Hao Chen , Yuanchen Bei , Wenbing Huang , Shengyuan Chen , Feiran Huang , Xiao Huang

Human preference alignment presents a critical yet underexplored challenge for diffusion models in text-to-3D generation. Existing solutions typically require task-specific fine-tuning, posing significant hurdles in data-scarce 3D domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Shuyuan Tu , Haidong Cao , Sicheng Xie , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCN) have been recently employed as core component in the construction of recommender system algorithms, interpreting user-item interactions as the edges of a bipartite graph. However, in the absence of side…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Edoardo D'Amico , Khalil Muhammad , Elias Tragos , Barry Smyth , Neil Hurley , Aonghus Lawlor

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

Deep learning methods have achieved a lot of success in various applications involving converting wearable sensor data to actionable health insights. A common application areas is activity recognition, where deep-learning methods still…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Eun Som Jeon , Hongjun Choi , Ankita Shukla , Yuan Wang , Hyunglae Lee , Matthew P. Buman , Pavan Turaga