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Research about recommender systems emerges over the last decade and comprises valuable services to increase different companies' revenue. Several approaches exist in handling paper recommender systems. While most existing recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Zahra Zamanzadeh Darban , Mohammad Hadi Valipour

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained prominence in recommendation systems in recent years. By representing the user-item matrix as a bipartite and undirected graph, GNNs have demonstrated their potential to capture short- and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Daniele Malitesta , Claudio Pomo , Tommaso Di Noia

In this work, we present a fast and effective Linear approach for updating recommendations in a scalable graph-based recommender system UltraGCN. Solving this task is extremely important to maintain the relevance of the recommendations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Viacheslav Yusupov , Maxim Rakhuba , Evgeny Frolov

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

Recommender systems play a crucial role in addressing the issue of information overload by delivering personalized recommendations to users. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in leveraging graph neural networks (GNNs) for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Ziyang Liu , Chaokun Wang , Jingcao Xu , Cheng Wu , Kai Zheng , Yang Song , Na Mou , Kun Gai

In recent years, Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), which can naturally integrate node information and topological structure, have been demonstrated to be powerful in learning on graph data. These advantages of GNNs provide great potential to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Wenqi Fan , Yao Ma , Qing Li , Yuan He , Eric Zhao , Jiliang Tang , Dawei Yin

Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have shown remarkable performance in different tasks. However, there are a few studies about GNN on recommender systems. GCN as a type of GNNs can extract high-quality embeddings for different entities in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Taher Hekmatfar , Saman Haratizadeh , Parsa Razban , Sama Goliaei

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in the recommendation tasks and have obtained very appealing performance. However, most GNN-based recommendation methods suffer from the problem of data sparsity in practice. Meanwhile,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yiqi Wang , Chaozhuo Li , Zheng Liu , Mingzheng Li , Jiliang Tang , Xing Xie , Lei Chen , Philip S. Yu

Solving cold-start problems is indispensable to provide meaningful recommendation results for new users and items. Under sparsely observed data, unobserved user-item pairs are also a vital source for distilling latent users' information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Riku Togashi , Mayu Otani , Shin'ichi Satoh

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

The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems due to the lack of user-item interactions, which significantly hurts the recommendation effect over new users and items. Recently, meta-learning based methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Yuxiang Shi , Yue Ding , Bo Chen , Yuyang Huang , Yule Wang , Ruiming Tang , Dong Wang

GNN-based recommenders have excelled in modeling intricate user-item interactions through multi-hop message passing. However, existing methods often overlook the dynamic nature of evolving user-item interactions, which impedes the adaption…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Yuhao Yang , Lianghao Xia , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin , Chao Huang

In recent years, owing to the outstanding performance in graph representation learning, graph neural network (GNN) techniques have gained considerable interests in many real-world scenarios, such as recommender systems and social networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Weibin Li , Mingkai He , Zhengjie Huang , Xianming Wang , Shikun Feng , Weiyue Su , Yu Sun

User cold-start recommendation is a long-standing challenge for recommender systems due to the fact that only a few interactions of cold-start users can be exploited. Recent studies seek to address this challenge from the perspective of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Xixun Lin , Jia Wu , Chuan Zhou , Shirui Pan , Yanan Cao , Bin Wang

Recent studies have shown that graph neural networks (GNNs) exhibit strong biases towards the node degree: they usually perform satisfactorily on high-degree nodes with rich neighbor information but struggle with low-degree nodes. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Wenhao Yu , Neil Shah , Yanfang Ye

As a pivotal tool to alleviate the information overload problem, recommender systems aim to predict user's preferred items from millions of candidates by analyzing observed user-item relations. As for alleviating the sparsity and cold start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Yue Deng

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in recommendation systems. However, conventional graph-based recommenders, such as LightGCN, require maintaining embeddings of size $d$ for each node, resulting in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanping Zheng , Zhewei Wei , Frank de Hoog , Xu Chen , Hongteng Xu , Yuhang Ye , Jiadeng Huang

Demand forecasting is a prominent business use case that allows retailers to optimize inventory planning, logistics, and core business decisions. One of the key challenges in demand forecasting is accounting for relationships and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Nikita Kozodoi , Elizaveta Zinovyeva , Simon Valentin , João Pereira , Rodrigo Agundez

As an important branch in Recommender System, occasional group recommendation has received more and more attention. In this scenario, each occasional group (cold-start group) has no or few historical interacted items. As each occasional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Bowen Hao , Hongzhi Yin , Cuiping Li , Hong Chen

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have gained wide popularity in recommender systems due to their capability to capture higher-order structure information among the nodes of users and items. However, these methods need to collect personal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Guowei Wu , Weike Pan , Zhong Ming