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It is well known that collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems provide better modeling of users and items associated with considerable rating history. The lack of historical ratings results in the user and the item cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Oren Anava , Shahar Golan , Nadav Golbandi , Zohar Karnin , Ronny Lempel , Oleg Rokhlenko , Oren Somekh

Existing collaborative ranking based recommender systems tend to perform best when there is enough observed ratings for each user and the observation is made completely at random. Under this setting recommender systems can properly suggest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-18 Iman Barjasteh , Rana Forsati , Abdol-Hossein Esfahanian , Hayder Radha

This work explores the ability of collective matrix factorization models in recommender systems to make predictions about users and items for which there is side information available but no feedback or interactions data, and proposes a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-17 David Cortes

Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is commonly used for optimization in large-scale machine learning problems. Langford et al. (2009) introduce a sparse online learning method to induce sparsity via truncated gradient. With high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-05-10 Yuting Ma , Tian Zheng

Particle dynamics and multi-agent systems provide accurate dynamical models for studying and forecasting the behavior of complex interacting systems. They often take the form of a high-dimensional system of differential equations…

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Thermal comfort assessment for the built environment has become more available to analysts and researchers due to the proliferation of sensors and subjective feedback methods. These data can be used for modeling comfort behavior to support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Matias Quintana , Stefano Schiavon , Kwok Wai Tham , Clayton Miller

Collaborative filtering is the de facto standard for analyzing users' activities and building recommendation systems for items. In this work we develop Sliced Anti-symmetric Decomposition (SAD), a new model for collaborative filtering based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Shiwen Zhao , Charles Crissman , Guillermo R Sapiro

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), as a framework for estimating generative models via an adversarial process, have attracted huge attention and have proven to be powerful in a variety of tasks. However, training GANs is well known for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-09 Zi-Yi Dou

We introduce a generative adversarial network (GAN) model to simulate the 3-dimensional Lagrangian motion of particles trapped in the recirculation zone of a buoyancy-opposed flame. The GAN model comprises a stochastic recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-15 Jingwei Gan , Pai Liu , Rajan K. Chakrabarty

Data sparsity and data imbalance are practical and challenging issues in cross-domain recommender systems. This paper addresses those problems by leveraging the concepts which derive from representation learning, adversarial learning and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Cheng Wang , Mathias Niepert , Hui Li

Recommendation systems have been widely used by commercial service providers for giving suggestions to users. Collaborative filtering (CF) systems, one of the most popular recommendation systems, utilize the history of behaviors of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-16 Saber Shokat Fadaee , Mohammad Sajjad Ghaemi , Ravi Sundaram , Hossein Azari Soufiani

The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiao Zhou , Danyang Liu , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie

Learning effective latent representations for users and items is the cornerstone of recommender systems. Traditional approaches rely on user-item interaction data to map users and items into a shared latent space, but the sparsity of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Hoang V. Dong , Yuan Fang , Hady W. Lauw

An ultimate goal of recommender systems (RS) is to improve user engagement. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a promising paradigm for this goal, as it directly optimizes overall performance of sequential recommendation. However, many existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Guoxi Zhang , Xing Yao , Xuanji Xiao

Large language models are increasingly used as personal assistants, yet most lack a persistent user model, forcing users to repeatedly restate preferences across sessions. We propose Vector-Adapted Retrieval Scoring (VARS), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yuren Hao , Shuhaib Mehri , ChengXiang Zhai , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Soft sensing infers hard-to-measure data through a large number of easily obtainable variables. However, in complex industrial scenarios, the issue of insufficient data volume persists, which diminishes the reliability of soft sensing.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zesen Wang , Yonggang Li , Lijuan Lan

Embedding & MLP has become a paradigm for modern large-scale recommendation system. However, this paradigm suffers from the cold-start problem which will seriously compromise the ecological health of recommendation systems. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Xu Zhao , Yi Ren , Ying Du , Shenzheng Zhang , Nian Wang

Machine learning methods are increasingly helping astronomers identify new radio pulsars. However, they require a large amount of labelled data, which is time consuming to produce and biased. Here we describe a Semi-Supervised Generative…

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This paper proposes a novel neural network, joint training capsule network (JTCN), for the cold start recommendation task. We propose to mimic the high-level user preference other than the raw interaction history based on the side…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Tingting Liang , Congying Xia , Yuyu Yin , Philip S. Yu

The Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) was recently introduced in the literature as a novel machine learning method for training generative models. It has many applications in statistics such as nonparametric clustering and nonparametric…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-26 Sehwan Kim , Qifan Song , Faming Liang