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The cold start problem in recommender systems is a long-standing challenge, which requires recommending to new users (items) based on attributes without any historical interaction records. In these recommendation systems, warm users (items)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Shuai Wang , Kun Zhang , Le Wu , Haiping Ma , Richang Hong , Meng Wang

Active preference learning offers an efficient approach to modeling preferences, but it is hindered by the cold-start problem, which leads to a marked decline in performance when no initial labeled data are available. While cold-start…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Mojtaba Fayaz-Bakhsh , Danial Ataee , MohammadAmin Fazli

Collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems struggle with making predictions on unseen, or 'cold', items. Systems designed to address this challenge are often trained with supervision from warm CF models in order to leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Gregor Meehan , Johan Pauwels

This paper proposes a cold start recommendation model that integrates contrastive learning, aiming to solve the problem of performance degradation of recommendation systems in cold start scenarios due to the scarcity of user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jiacheng Hu , Tai An , Zidong Yu , Junliang Du , Yuanshuai Luo

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Fan Min , William Zhu

In this paper, we study a cold-start problem in recommendation systems where we have completely new users entered the systems. There is not any interaction or feedback of the new users with the systems previoustly, thus no ratings are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-30 Hai Thanh Nguyen , Jérémie Mary , Philippe Preux

In modern recommender systems, experimental settings typically include filtering out cold users and items based on a minimum interaction threshold. However, these thresholds are often chosen arbitrarily and vary widely across studies,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Danil Gusak , Nikita Sukhorukov , Evgeny Frolov

Traditional recommender systems primarily leverage identity-based (ID) representations for users and items, while the advent of pre-trained language models (PLMs) has introduced rich semantic modeling of item descriptions. However, PLMs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Chen Wang , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Xiaolong Liu , Mingdai Yang , Yueqing Liang , Philip S. Yu

In recommendation systems, predicting Click-Through Rate (CTR) is crucial for accurately matching users with items. To improve recommendation performance for cold-start and long-tail items, recent studies focus on leveraging item multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yining Yao , Ziwei Li , Shuwen Xiao , Boya Du , Jialin Zhu , Junjun Zheng , Xiangheng Kong , Yuning Jiang

Practical recommender systems experience a cold-start problem when observed user-item interactions in the history are insufficient. Meta learning, especially gradient based one, can be adopted to tackle this problem by learning initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Xidong Feng , Chen Chen , Dong Li , Mengchen Zhao , Jianye Hao , Jun Wang

This paper contributes to addressing the item cold start problem in large-scale recommender systems, focusing on how to efficiently gain initial visibility for newly ingested content. We propose an exploration system designed to efficiently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Dong Wang , Junyi Jiao , Arnab Bhadury , Yaping Zhang , Mingyan Gao

Cold start scenarios present fundamental obstacles to effective recommendation generation, particularly when dealing with users lacking interaction history or items with sparse metadata. This research proposes an innovative hybrid framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Nikita Zmanovskii

Multimodal learning has shown promising performance in content-based recommendation due to the auxiliary user and item information of multiple modalities such as text and images. However, the problem of incomplete and missing modality is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Cheng Wang , Mathias Niepert , Hui Li

A standard approach to Collaborative Filtering (CF), i.e. prediction of user ratings on items, relies on Matrix Factorization techniques. Representations for both users and items are computed from the observed ratings and used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Gabriella Contardo , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artieres

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential for improving recommendation systems through their inherent reasoning capabilities and extensive knowledge base. Yet, existing studies predominantly address warm-start scenarios…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shijun Li , Yu Wang , Jin Wang , Ying Li , Joydeep Ghosh , Anne Cocos

Recommender systems have become fundamental building blocks of modern online products and services, and have a substantial impact on user experience. In the past few years, deep learning methods have attracted a lot of research, and are now…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Davide Buffelli , Ashish Gupta , Agnieszka Strzalka , Vassilis Plachouras

Recommender system has attracted lots of attentions since it helps users alleviate the information overload problem. Matrix factorization technique is one of the most widely employed collaborative filtering techniques in the research of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Yonghong Yu , Can Wang , Yang Gao

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…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Minh Hoang Vuong , Anh M. T. Bui , Phuong T. Nguyen , Davide Di Ruscio

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been proven as a promising way to tackle the user cold-start problem, which aims to make recommendations for users in the target domain by transferring the user preference derived from the source…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Xiaodong Li , Jiawei Sheng , Jiangxia Cao , Wenyuan Zhang , Quangang Li , Tingwen Liu

Recommending appropriate tags to items can facilitate content organization, retrieval, consumption and other applications, where hybrid tag recommender systems have been utilized to integrate collaborative information and content…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Jing Yi , Xubin Ren , Zhenzhong Chen