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Internet has brought about a tremendous increase in content of all forms and, in that, video content constitutes the major backbone of the total content being published as well as watched. Thus it becomes imperative for video recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Yaman Kumar , Agniv Sharma , Abhigyan Khaund , Akash Kumar , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru , Rajiv Ratn Shah

In the WWW (World Wide Web), dynamic development and spread of data has resulted a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet, yet user is unable to find relevant information in a short span of time. Consequently, a system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Denis Selimi , Krenare Pireva Nuci

Cold-start is a notoriously difficult problem which can occur in recommendation systems, and arises when there is insufficient information to draw inferences for users or items. To address this challenge, a contextual bandit algorithm --…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-13 Jack R. McKenzie , Peter A. Appleby , Thomas House , Neil Walton

Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recommendations. Due to the diversification of internet platforms…

Item representations in recommendation systems are expected to reveal the properties of items. Collaborative recommender methods usually represent an item as one single latent vector. Nowadays the e-commercial platforms provide various…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Zeyu Cui , Feng Yu , Shu Wu , Qiang Liu , Liang Wang

The essence of the challenges cold start and sparsity in Recommender Systems (RS) is that the extant techniques, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Matrix Factorization (MF), mainly rely on the user-item rating matrix, which sometimes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Fangfang Li , Guandong Xu , Longbing Cao

Recommendation systems have become ubiquitous in today's online world and are an integral part of practically every e-commerce platform. While traditional recommender systems use customer history, this approach is not feasible in 'cold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Michael Shekasta , Gilad Katz , Asnat Greenstein-Messica , Lior Rokach , Bracha Shapira

On online advertising platforms, newly introduced promotional ads face the cold-start problem, as they lack sufficient user feedback for model training. In this work, we propose LLM-HYPER, a novel framework that treats large language models…

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been proven as a promising way to alleviate the cold-start issue, in which the most critical problem is how to draw an informative user representation in the target domain via the transfer of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaodong Li , Hengzhu Tang , Jiawei Sheng , Xinghua Zhang , Li Gao , Suqi Cheng , Dawei Yin , Tingwen Liu

Cold-start cross-domain recommender (CDR) systems predict a user's preferences in a target domain using only their source-domain behavior, yet existing CDR models either map opaque embeddings or rely on post-hoc or LLM-generated rationales…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yingjun Dai , Ahmed El-Roby

Recommender systems are extensively utilised across various areas to predict user preferences for personalised experiences and enhanced user engagement and satisfaction. Traditional recommender systems, however, are complicated by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Jianfeng Deng , Qingfeng Chen , Debo Cheng , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Xiaojing Du

Deep learning recommendation models (DLRMs) are at the heart of the current e-commerce industry. However, the amount of training data used to train these large models is growing exponentially, leading to substantial training hurdles. The…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Hossein Entezari Zarch , Abdulla Alshabanah , Chaoyi Jiang , Murali Annavaram

Accurately predicting counterfactual user feedback is essential for building effective recommender systems. However, latent confounding bias can obscure the true causal relationship between user feedback and item exposure, ultimately…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Jianfeng Deng , Qingfeng Chen , Debo Cheng , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Shichao Zhang

Online reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly popular for the personalized mobile health (mHealth) intervention. It is able to personalize the type and dose of interventions according to user's ongoing statuses and changing needs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Feiyun Zhu , Peng Liao

Based on the user-item bipartite network, collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems predict users' interests according to their history collections, which is a promising way to solve the information exploration problem. However, CF…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2011-12-13 Zhao-Guo Xuan , Zhan Li , Jian-Guo Liu

Sequential Recommendation (SR) aims to leverage the sequential patterns in users' historical interactions to accurately track their preferences. However, the primary reliance of existing SR methods on collaborative data results in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Yuhao Wang , Junwei Pan , Pengyue Jia , Wanyu Wang , Maolin Wang , Zhixiang Feng , Xiaotian Li , Jie Jiang , Xiangyu Zhao

Information Retrieval (IR) systems used in search and recommendation platforms frequently employ Learning-to-Rank (LTR) models to rank items in response to user queries. These models heavily rely on features derived from user interactions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Randy Ardywibowo , Rakesh Sunki , Lucy Kuo , Sankalp Nayak

Selecting appropriate physical models is a critical yet difficult step in many areas of computational science and engineering. In multiphase Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), practitioners must choose among numerous closure model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-13 S. Hänsch , A. Sajdoková , A. Rębowski , F. Miškařík , K. Ramakrishna , F. Schlegel , V. Rybář , R. Alves , P. Kordík

We consider the problem of computing the optimal solution and objective of a linear program under linearly changing linear constraints. The problem studied is given by $\min c^t x \text{ s.t } Ax + \lambda Dx \leq b$ where $\lambda$ belongs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Guillaume Derval , Bardhyl Miftari , Damien Ernst , Quentin Louveaux

Current state of the art algorithms for recommender systems are mainly based on collaborative filtering, which exploits user ratings to discover latent factors in the data. These algorithms unfortunately do not make effective use of other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Javier Maroto , Clément Vignac , Pascal Frossard