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The large demand of mobile devices creates significant concerns about the quality of mobile applications (apps). Developers need to guarantee the quality of mobile apps before it is released to the market. There have been many approaches…

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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…

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Users review about an app is a crucial component for open mobile application market, such as the AppStore and the Google play. Analyzing these reviews can reveal user's sentiment towards a feature in the app. There exist several analytical…

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Writing and maintaining UI tests for mobile apps is a time-consuming and tedious task. While decades of research have produced automated approaches for UI test generation, these approaches typically focus on testing for crashes or…

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On an artist's profile page, music streaming services frequently recommend a ranked list of "similar artists" that fans also liked. However, implementing such a feature is challenging for new artists, for which usage data on the service…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Guillaume Salha-Galvan , Romain Hennequin , Benjamin Chapus , Viet-Anh Tran , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Explainability, i.e. the ability of a system to explain its behavior to users, has become an important quality of software-intensive systems. Recent work has focused on methods for generating explanations for various algorithmic paradigms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Max Unterbusch , Mersedeh Sadeghi , Jannik Fischbach , Martin Obaidi , Andreas Vogelsang

Image quality assessment (IQA) focuses on the perceptual visual quality of images, playing a crucial role in downstream tasks such as image reconstruction, compression, and generation. The rapid advancement of multi-modal large language…

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Mobile app distribution platforms such as Google Play Store allow users to share their feedback about downloaded apps in the form of a review comment and a corresponding star rating. Typically, the star rating ranges from one to five stars,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Rahul Aralikatte , Giriprasad Sridhara , Neelamadhav Gantayat , Senthil Mani

In recent years, with the vigorous development of the video game industry, the proportion of gaming videos on major video websites like YouTube has dramatically increased. However, relatively little research has been done on the automatic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Xiangxu Yu , Zhengzhong Tu , Neil Birkbeck , Yilin Wang , Balu Adsumilli , Alan C. Bovik

Google app market captures the school of thought of users via ratings and text reviews. The critique's viewpoint regarding an app is proportional to their satisfaction level. Consequently, this helps other users to gain insights before…

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The competing nature of the app market motivates us to shift our focus on apps that provide similar functionalities and directly compete with each other (i.e., peer apps). In this work, we study the ratings and the review text of 100…

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As software systems grow in scale, developers face increasing difficulty in selecting appropriate Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) from numerous options. Efficiently identifying APIs that satisfy functional requirements has become…

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Aggregating neighbor features is essential for point cloud classification. In the existing work, each point in the cloud may inevitably be selected as the neighbors of multiple aggregation centers, as all centers will gather neighbor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Tao Lu , Chunxu Liu , Youxin Chen , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

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…

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We tackle the blog recommendation problem in Tumblr for mobile users in this paper. Blog recommendation is challenging since most mobile users would suffer from the cold start when there are only a limited number of blogs followed by the…

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Pre-search query recommendation, widely known as HintQ on Taobao's homepage, plays a vital role in intent capture and demand discovery, yet traditional methods suffer from shallow semantics, poor cold-start performance and low serendipity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Jingcao Xu , Jianyun Zou , Renkai Yang , Zili Geng , Qiang Liu , Haihong Tang

The cold start problem in recommender systems remains a critical challenge. Current solutions often train hybrid models on auxiliary data for both cold and warm users/items, potentially degrading the experience for the latter. This drawback…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Hao Chen , Yu Yang , Yuanchen Bei , Zefan Wang , Yue Xu , Feiran Huang

In the realm of modern service-oriented architecture, ensuring Quality of Service (QoS) is of paramount importance. The ability to predict QoS values in advance empowers users to make informed decisions. However, achieving accurate QoS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Suraj Kumar , Soumi Chattopadhyay

Ubiquitous technologies such as mobile software applications (mobile apps) have a tremendous influence on the evolution of the social, cultural, economic, and political facets of life in society. Mobile apps fulfil many practical purposes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Humphrey O. Obie , Waqar Hussain , Xin Xia , John Grundy , Li Li , Burak Turhan , Jon Whittle , Mojtaba Shahin

With the rapid prevalence of mobile devices and the dramatic proliferation of mobile applications (apps), app recommendation becomes an emergent task that would benefit both app users and stockholders. How to effectively organize and make…

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