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User cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. Fortunately, cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has emerged as a highly effective remedy for the user cold-start challenge, with recently developed diffusion…

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Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become an integral part of modern software development, enhancing developer productivity and accelerating time-to-market. However, identifying suitable candidates from a rapidly growing and continuously…

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Data sparsity and cold-start problems are persistent challenges in recommendation systems. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is a promising solution that utilizes knowledge from the source domain to improve the recommendation performance in…

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A common challenge in personalized user preference prediction is the cold-start problem. Due to the lack of user-item interactions, directly learning from the new users' log data causes serious over-fitting problem. Recently, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Runsheng Yu , Yu Gong , Xu He , Bo An , Yu Zhu , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

This paper proposes a recommender system to alleviate the cold-start problem that can estimate user preferences based on only a small number of items. To identify a user's preference in the cold state, existing recommender systems, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Hoyeop Lee , Jinbae Im , Seongwon Jang , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

One of the main challenges in Recommender Systems (RSs) is the New User problem which happens when the system has to generate personalised recommendations for a new user whom the system has no information about. Active Learning tries to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Roberto Pagano , Massimo Quadrana , Mehdi Elahi , Paolo Cremonesi

To help merchants/customers to provide/access a variety of services through miniapps, online service platforms have occupied a critical position in the effective content delivery, in which how to recommend items in the new domain launched…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Chunjing Gan , Bo Huang , Binbin Hu , Jian Ma , Ziqi Liu , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou , Guannan Zhang , Wenliang Zhong

In practical scenarios, the effectiveness of sequential recommendation systems is hindered by the user cold-start problem, which arises due to limited interactions for accurately determining user preferences. Previous studies have attempted…

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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

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) methods aim to tackle the data sparsity and cold-start problems present in Single-Domain Sequential Recommendation (SDSR). Existing CDSR works design their elaborate structures relying on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Wujiang Xu , Qitian Wu , Runzhong Wang , Mingming Ha , Qiongxu Ma , Linxun Chen , Bing Han , Junchi Yan

Cross-domain Recommendation (CDR) exploits multi-domain correlations to alleviate data sparsity. As a core task within this field, inter-domain recommendation focuses on predicting preferences for users who interact in a source domain but…

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Bundle recommendation seeks to recommend a bundle of related items to users to improve both user experience and the profits of platform. Existing bundle recommendation models have progressed from capturing only user-bundle interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , Xiang Wang , Yinwei Wei , Xiaoyu Du , Yuyangzi Fu , Tat-Seng Chua

Cross-domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) aims to extract the preference from the user's historical interactions across various domains. Despite some progress in CDSR, two problems set the barrier for further advancements, i.e., overlap…

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In this paper we propose to solve an important problem in recommendation -- user cold start, based on meta leaning method. Previous meta learning approaches finetune all parameters for each new user, which is both computing and storage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Zhao , Yang Wang , Daxiang Dong , Hao Tian

In this paper we present a new approach to content-based transfer learning for solving the data sparsity problem in cases when the users' preferences in the target domain are either scarce or unavailable, but the necessary information on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-16 Naseem Biadsy , Lior Rokach , Armin Shmilovici

Nowadays, users open multiple accounts on social media platforms and e-commerce sites, expressing their personal preferences on different domains. However, users' behaviors change across domains, depending on the content that users interact…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Dimitrios Rafailidis , Gerhard Weiss

Recently, web platforms have been operating various service domains simultaneously. Targeting a platform that operates multiple service domains, we introduce a new task, Multi-Domain Recommendation to Attract Users (MDRAU), which recommends…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Hyunjun Ju , SeongKu Kang , Dongha Lee , Junyoung Hwang , Sanghwan Jang , Hwanjo Yu

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a bundle of related items to users, which can satisfy the users' various needs with one-stop convenience. Recent methods usually take advantage of both user-bundle and user-item interactions…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , An Zhang , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Cross-domain recommender (CDR) systems aim to enhance the performance of the target domain by utilizing data from other related domains. However, irrelevant information from the source domain may instead degrade target domain performance,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Hanyu Li , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Jiayu Li , Cunxiang Yin , Yancheng He , Guoqiang Xu , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

Recommender systems are popular in e-commerce as they suggest items of interest to users. Researchers have addressed the cold-start problem where either the user or the item is new. However, the situation with both new user and new item has…

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