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Recommender systems have been widely adopted by electronic commerce and entertainment industries for individualized prediction and recommendation, which benefit consumers and improve business intelligence. In this article, we propose an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-07 Xuan Bi , Annie Qu , Xiaotong Shen

Sequential Recommendation (SR) models user dynamics and predicts the next preferred items based on the user history. Existing SR methods model the 'was interacted before' item-item transitions observed in sequences, which can be viewed as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ziwei Fan , Zhiwei Liu , Chen Wang , Peijie Huang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xiaodong Li , Juwei Yue , Xinghua Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Wenyuan Zhang , Taoyu Su , Zefeng Zhang , Tingwen Liu

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

Recommender systems can be formulated as a matrix completion problem, predicting ratings from user and item parameter vectors. Optimizing these parameters by subsampling data becomes difficult as the number of users and items grows. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Elias Tragas , Calvin Luo , Maxime Gazeau , Kevin Luk , David Duvenaud

Web recommendation services bear great importance in e-commerce, as they aid the user in navigating through the items that are most relevant to her needs. In a typical Web site, long history of previous activities or purchases by the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Bálint Daróczy , Frederick Ayala-Gómez , András Benczúr

As e-commerce platforms expand their product catalogs, accurately recommending long-tail items becomes increasingly important for enhancing both user experience and platform revenue. A key challenge is the long-tail problem, where extreme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qingyi Lu , Haotian Lyu , Jiayun Zheng , Yang Wang , Li Zhang , Chengrui Zhou

Large-language Models (LLMs) have been extremely successful at tasks like complex dialogue understanding, reasoning and coding due to their emergent abilities. These emergent abilities have been extended with multi-modality to include…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Li Yang , Anushya Subbiah , Hardik Patel , Judith Yue Li , Yanwei Song , Reza Mirghaderi , Vikram Aggarwal , Qifan Wang

How can we recommend cold-start bundles to users? The cold-start problem in bundle recommendation is crucial because new bundles are continuously created on the Web for various marketing purposes. Despite its importance, existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Hyunsik Jeon , Jong-eun Lee , Jeongin Yun , U Kang

The wide development of mobile applications provides a considerable amount of data of all types (images, texts, sounds, videos, etc.). Thus, two main issues have to be considered: assist users in finding information and reduce search and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Djallel Bouneffouf

Multimodal recommendation aims to recommend user-preferred candidates based on her/his historically interacted items and associated multimodal information. Previous studies commonly employ an embed-and-retrieve paradigm: learning user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Han Liu , Yinwei Wei , Xuemeng Song , Weili Guan , Yuan-Fang Li , Liqiang Nie

Cold-start problems are enormous challenges in practical recommender systems. One promising solution for this problem is cross-domain recommendation (CDR) which leverages rich information from an auxiliary (source) domain to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yongchun Zhu , Kaikai Ge , Fuzhen Zhuang , Ruobing Xie , Dongbo Xi , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

The item cold-start problem is critical for online recommendation systems, as the success of this phase determines whether high-quality new items can transition to popular ones, receive essential feedback to inspire creators, and thus lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yu-Ting Lan , Yang Huo , Yi Shen , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Active learning promises to improve annotation efficiency by iteratively selecting the most important data to be annotated first. However, we uncover a striking contradiction to this promise: active learning fails to select data as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Liangyu Chen , Yutong Bai , Siyu Huang , Yongyi Lu , Bihan Wen , Alan L. Yuille , Zongwei Zhou

Traditional recommender systems leverage users' item preference history to recommend novel content that users may like. However, modern dialog interfaces that allow users to express language-based preferences offer a fundamentally different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Scott Sanner , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski , Ben Wedin , Lucas Dixon

Multi-criteria recommender systems have been increasingly valuable for helping consumers identify the most relevant items based on different dimensions of user experiences. However, previously proposed multi-criteria models did not take…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

In recommender systems, one common challenge is the cold-start problem, where interactions are very limited for fresh users in the systems. To address this challenge, recently, many works introduce the meta-optimization idea into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Tianxin Wei , Jingrui He

Recommending new items to existing users has remained a challenging problem due to absence of user's past preferences for these items. The user personalized non-collaborative methods based on item features can be used to address this item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Mohit Sharma , Jiayu Zhou , Junling Hu , George Karypis

The growing ubiquity of Extended Reality (XR) is driving Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRS) toward visually immersive experiences. We formalize this paradigm as Immersive CRS (ICRS), where recommended items are highlighted directly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiazhou Liang , Yifan Simon Liu , David Guo , Minqi Sun , Yilun Jiang , Scott Sanner

Online job boards are one of the central components of modern recruitment industry. With millions of candidates browsing through job postings everyday, the need for accurate, effective, meaningful, and transparent job recommendations is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Walid Shalaby , BahaaEddin AlAila , Mohammed Korayem , Layla Pournajaf , Khalifeh AlJadda , Shannon Quinn , Wlodek Zadrozny