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The reasoning and generalization capabilities of LLMs can help us better understand user preferences and item characteristics, offering exciting prospects to enhance recommendation systems. Though effective while user-item interactions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jianling Wang , Haokai Lu , James Caverlee , Ed Chi , Minmin Chen

For tackling the well known cold-start user problem in model-based recommender systems, one approach is to recommend a few items to a cold-start user and use the feedback to learn a profile. The learned profile can then be used to make good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Sampoorna Biswas , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Senjuti Basu Ray

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

Recommending cold items remains a significant challenge in billion-scale online recommendation systems. While warm items benefit from historical user behaviors, cold items rely solely on content features, limiting their recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Feiran Huang , Yuanchen Bei , Zhenghang Yang , Junyi Jiang , Hao Chen , Qijie Shen , Senzhang Wang , Fakhri Karray , Philip S. Yu

Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Cesare Bernardis , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Federated recommendation system usually trains a global model on the server without direct access to users' private data on their own devices. However, this separation of the recommendation model and users' private data poses a challenge in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

The cold-start issue is the challenge when we talk about recommender systems, especially in the case when we do not have the past interaction data of new users or new items. Content-based features or hybrid solutions are common as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yushang Zhao , Xinyue Han , Qian Leng , Qianyi Sun , Haotian Lyu , Chengrui Zhou

Sequential recommendation is a fundamental task for network applications, and it usually suffers from the item cold start problem due to the insufficiency of user feedbacks. There are currently three kinds of popular approaches which are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Qiang Cui , Shu Wu , Qiang Liu , Wen Zhong , Liang Wang

The data sparsity problem significantly hinders the performance of recommender systems, as traditional models rely on limited historical interactions to learn user preferences and item properties. While incorporating multimodal information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jinfeng Xu , Zheyu Chen , Jinze Li , Shuo Yang , Hewei Wang , Yijie Li , Mengran Li , Puzhen Wu , Edith C. H. Ngai

Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based models have become the mainstream approach for recommender systems. Despite the effectiveness, they are still suffering from the cold-start problem, i.e., recommend for few-interaction items. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Taichi Liu , Chen Gao , Zhenyu Wang , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

An Item based recommender system works by computing a similarity between items, which can exploit past user interactions (collaborative filtering) or item features (content based filtering). Collaborative algorithms have been proven to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Alberto Gasparin , Paolo Cremonesi

Recommender systems face a critical challenge in the item cold-start problem, which limits content diversity and exacerbates popularity bias by struggling to recommend new items. While existing solutions often rely on auxiliary data, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dong Wang , Junyi Jiao , Arnab Bhadury , Yaping Zhang , Mingyan Gao , Onkar Dalal

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a set of items to users for overall consumption. Existing bundle recommendation models primarily depend on observed user-bundle interactions, limiting exploration of newly-emerged bundles that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yihang Li , Zhuo Liu , Wei Wei

I present a hybrid matrix factorisation model representing users and items as linear combinations of their content features' latent factors. The model outperforms both collaborative and content-based models in cold-start or sparse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Maciej Kula

Recommendation systems suffer in the strict cold-start (SCS) scenario, where the user-item interactions are entirely unavailable. The ID-based approaches completely fail to work. Cold-start recommenders, on the other hand, leverage item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yuwei Cao , Liangwei Yang , Chen Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Hao Peng , Chenyu You , 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

Rating elicitation is a success element for recommender systems to perform well at cold-starting, in which the systems need to recommend items to a newly arrived user with no prior knowledge about the user's preference. Existing elicitation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Hieu Trung Nguyen , Duy Nguyen , Khoa Doan , Viet Anh Nguyen

Item recommendation task predicts a personalized ranking over a set of items for each individual user. One paradigm is the rating-based methods that concentrate on explicit feedbacks and hence face the difficulties in collecting them.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-15 Guang-Neng Hu , Xin-Yu Dai

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in optimizing long-term user interest in recommender systems. However, existing RL-based recommendation methods need a large number of interactions for each user to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yanan Wang , Yong Ge , Li Li , Rui Chen , Tong Xu

Recommender systems have been widely deployed in many real-world applications, but usually suffer from the long-standing user cold-start problem. As a promising way, Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) has attracted a surge of interest, which…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Jiangxia Cao , Jiawei Sheng , Xin Cong , Tingwen Liu , Bin Wang