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The widespread use of the internet has led to an overwhelming amount of data, which has resulted in the problem of information overload. Recommender systems have emerged as a solution to this problem by providing personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Hui Fang , Xu Feng , Lu Qin , Zhu Sun

Product recommendation systems are important for major movie studios during the movie greenlight process and as part of machine learning personalization pipelines. Collaborative Filtering (CF) models have proved to be effective at powering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Miguel Campo , JJ Espinoza , Julie Rieger , Abhinav Taliyan

Online dating platforms have fundamentally transformed the formation of romantic relationships, with millions of users worldwide relying on algorithmic matching systems to find compatible partners. However, current recommendation systems in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Madhav Kotecha

Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-10 Enze Shi , Linglong Kong , Bei Jiang

The fairness-aware online learning framework has emerged as a potent tool within the context of continuous lifelong learning. In this scenario, the learner's objective is to progressively acquire new tasks as they arrive over time, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Chen Zhao , Feng Mi , Xintao Wu , Kai Jiang , Latifur Khan , Feng Chen

Cold-start item recommendation is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. A common remedy is to use a content-based approach, but rich information from raw contents in various forms has not been fully utilized. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jooeun Kim , Jinri Kim , Kwangeun Yeo , Eungi Kim , Kyoung-Woon On , Jonghwan Mun , Joonseok Lee

Deep learning is increasingly being used in high-stake decision making applications that affect individual lives. However, deep learning models might exhibit algorithmic discrimination behaviors with respect to protected groups, potentially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Mengnan Du , Fan Yang , Na Zou , Xia Hu

In this paper, we study collaborative filtering in an interactive setting, in which the recommender agents iterate between making recommendations and updating the user profile based on the interactive feedback. The most challenging problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Lixin Zou , Long Xia , Yulong Gu , Xiangyu Zhao , Weidong Liu , Jimmy Xiangji Huang , Dawei Yin

Automated Team Formation is becoming increasingly important for a plethora of applications in open source community projects, remote working platforms, as well as online educational systems. The latter case, in particular, poses significant…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Maria Kalantzi , Agoritsa Polyzou , George Karypis

Item cold-start is a pervasive challenge for collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems. Existing methods often train cold-start models by mapping auxiliary item content, such as images or text descriptions, into the embedding space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Gregor Meehan , Johan Pauwels

We propose a new approach that enables end users to directly solve the cold start problem by themselves. The cold start problem is a common issue in recommender systems, and many methods have been proposed to address the problem on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ryoma Sato

Multimodal recommendation has emerged as an effective paradigm for enhancing collaborative filtering by incorporating heterogeneous content modalities. Existing multimodal recommenders predominantly focus on reinforcing cross-modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hao Zhan , Yihui Wang , Yonghui Yang , Danyang Yue , Yu Wang , Pengyang Shao , Fei Shen , Fei Liu , Le Wu

Collaborative Filtering~(CF) plays a crucial role in modern recommender systems, leveraging historical user-item interactions to provide personalized suggestions. However, CF-based methods often encounter biases due to imbalances in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Miaomiao Cai , Min Hou , Lei Chen , Le Wu , Haoyue Bai , Yong Li , Meng Wang

Cold-start recommendation remains a central challenge in dynamic, open-world platforms, requiring models to recommend for newly registered users (user cold-start) and to recommend newly introduced items to existing users (item cold-start)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhen Zhang , Jujia Zhao , Xinyu Ma , Xin Xin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

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

Though deep learning has pushed the boundaries of classification forward, in recent years hints of the limits of standard classification have begun to emerge. Problems such as fooling, adding new classes over time, and the need to retrain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Navid Kardan , Kenneth O. Stanley

With the global transformation of the fashion industry and a rise in the demand for fashion items worldwide, the need for an effectual fashion recommendation has never been more. Despite various cutting-edge solutions proposed in the past…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Dhruv Verma , Kshitij Gulati , Rajiv Ratn Shah

How can we build recommender systems to take into account fairness? Real-world recommender systems are often composed of multiple models, built by multiple teams. However, most research on fairness focuses on improving fairness in a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Xuezhi Wang , Nithum Thain , Anu Sinha , Flavien Prost , Ed H. Chi , Jilin Chen , Alex Beutel

Building a universal Video-Language model for solving various video understanding tasks (\emph{e.g.}, text-video retrieval, video question answering) is an open challenge to the machine learning field. Towards this goal, most recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Jingjia Huang , Yinan Li , Jiashi Feng , Xinglong Wu , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Recommender systems are essential for personalizing digital experiences on e-commerce sites, streaming services, and social media platforms. While these systems are necessary for modern digital interactions, they face fairness, bias,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Falguni Roy , Xiaofeng Ding , K. -K. R. Choo , Pan Zhou