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Recommender Systems are an integral part of music sharing platforms. Often the aim of these systems is to increase the time, the user spends on the platform and hence having a high commercial value. The systems which aim at increasing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Noveen Sachdeva , Kartik Gupta , Vikram Pudi

Despite recommender systems play a key role in network content platforms, mining the user's interests is still a significant challenge. Existing works predict the user interest by utilizing user behaviors, i.e., clicks, views, etc., but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xuanji Xiao , Huaqiang Dai , Qian Dong , Shuzi Niu , Yuzhen Liu , Pei Liu

Recommender systems are software tools used to generate and provide suggestions for items and other entities to the users by exploiting various strategies. Hybrid recommender systems combine two or more recommendation strategies in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Erion Çano , Maurizio Morisio

We present a collection recommender system that can automatically create and recommend collections of items at a user level. Unlike regular recommender systems, which output top-N relevant items, a collection recommender system outputs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Sanidhya Singal , Piyush Singh , Manjeet Dahiya

We propose a novel software service recommendation model to help users find their suitable repositories in GitHub. Our model first designs a novel context-induced repository graph embedding method to leverage rich contextual information of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Mingwei Zhang , Jiayuan Liu , Weipu Zhang , Ke Deng , Hai Dong , Ying Liu

In recent years, streaming music platforms have become very popular mainly due to the huge number of songs these systems make available to users. This enormous availability means that recommendation mechanisms that help users to select the…

With the increasing use and impact of recommender systems in our daily lives, how to achieve fairness in recommendation has become an important problem. Previous works on fairness-aware recommendation mainly focus on a predefined set of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Yunqi Li , Dingxian Wang , Hanxiong Chen , Yongfeng Zhang

Sequential recommendation systems often struggle to make predictions or take action when dealing with cold-start items that have limited amount of interactions. In this work, we propose SimRec - a new approach to mitigate the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shaked Brody , Shoval Lagziel

Cross-domain sequential recommendation is an important development direction of recommender systems. It combines the characteristics of sequential recommender systems and cross-domain recommender systems, which can capture the dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Zhaohao Lin , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming

Recommender systems learn about user preferences over time, automatically finding things of similar interest. This reduces the burden of creating explicit queries. Recommender systems do, however, suffer from cold-start problems where no…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Stuart E. Middleton , Harith Alani , David C. De Roure

Providing customized products and services in the modern business world is one of the most efficient solutions to improve users' experience and their engagements with the industries. To aim, recommender systems, by producing personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Fallahi , Azam Bastanfard , Amineh Amini , Hadi Saboohi

In recommender systems, one common challenge is the cold-start problem, where interactions are very limited for fresh users in the systems. To address this challenge, recently, many works introduce the meta-optimization idea into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianxin Wei , Jingrui He

In recent years, research has been done on applying Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) as recommender systems. Results have been promising, especially in the session-based setting where RNNs have been shown to outperform state-of-the-art…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Massimiliano Ruocco , Ole Steinar Lillestøl Skrede , Helge Langseth

Pinterest is a leading visual discovery platform where recommender systems (RecSys) are key to delivering relevant, engaging, and fresh content to our users. In this paper, we study the problem of improving RecSys model predictions for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Saeed Ebrahimi , Weijie Jiang , Jaewon Yang , Olafur Gudmundsson , Yucheng Tu , Huizhong Duan

Most of the existing recommender systems assume that user's visiting history can be constantly recorded. However, in recent online services, the user identification may be usually unknown and only limited online user behaviors can be used.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

Due to the growing volume of user generated content, hashtags are employed as topic indicators to manage content efficiently on social media platforms. However, finding these vital topics is challenging in microvideos since they contain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Shubhi Bansal , Kushaan Gowda , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw , Nagendra Kumar

Recommendation systems help users find matched items based on their previous behaviors. Personalized recommendation becomes challenging in the absence of historical user-item interactions, a practical problem for startups known as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Xuansheng Wu , Huachi Zhou , Yucheng Shi , Wenlin Yao , Xiao Huang , Ninghao Liu

The cold-start problem has been commonly recognized in recommendation systems and studied by following a general idea to leverage the abundant interaction records of warm users to infer the preference of cold users. However, the performance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Taicheng Guo , Lu Yu , Basem Shihada , Xiangliang Zhang

This paper aims to improve upon the generic recommendations that Reddit provides for its users. We propose a novel personalized recommender system that learns from both, the presence and the content of user-subreddit interaction, using…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Abhishek K Das , Nikhil Bhat , Sukanto Guha , Janvi Palan

Recommendation systems have become essential in modern music streaming platforms, shaping how users discover and engage with songs. One common approach in recommendation systems is collaborative filtering, which suggests content based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Terence Zeng , Abhishek K. Umrawal