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Recommending cold-start items is a long-standing and fundamental challenge in recommender systems. Without any historical interaction on cold-start items, CF scheme fails to use collaborative signals to infer user preference on these items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang , Qi Li , Liqiang Nie , Yan Li , Xuanping Li , Tat-Seng Chua

With the rise of e-commerce and short videos, online recommender systems that can capture users' interests and update new items in real-time play an increasingly important role. In both online and offline recommendation systems, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Yunze Luo , Yuezihan Jiang , Yinjie Jiang , Gaode Chen , Jingchi Wang , Kaigui Bian , Peiyi Li , Qi Zhang

Sequential recommendation systems often struggle to make predictions or take action when dealing with cold-start items that have limited amount of interactions. In this work, we propose SimRec - a new approach to mitigate the cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Shaked Brody , Shoval Lagziel

The data scarcity of user preferences and the cold-start problem often appear in real-world applications and limit the recommendation accuracy of collaborative filtering strategies. Leveraging the selections of social friends and foes can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Dimitrios Rafailidis

We present a novel dynamic recommendation model that focuses on users who have interactions in the past but turn relatively inactive recently. Making effective recommendations to these time-sensitive cold-start users is critical to maintain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Krishna Prasad Neupane , Ervine Zheng , Yu Kong , Qi Yu

Collaborative filtering often suffers from sparsity and cold start problems in real recommendation scenarios, therefore, researchers and engineers usually use side information to address the issues and improve the performance of recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Hongwei Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Miao Zhao , Wenjie Li , Xing Xie , Minyi Guo

Mitigating the new user cold-start problem has been critical in the recommendation system for online service providers to influence user experience in decision making which can ultimately affect the intention of users to use a particular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Po-Lin Lai , Chih-Yun Chen , Liang-Wei Lo , Chien-Chin Chen

Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommender models highly depend on user-item interactions to learn CF representations, thus falling short of recommending cold-start items. To address this issue, prior studies mainly introduce item features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Xinyu Lin , Wenjie Wang , Jujia Zhao , Yongqi Li , Fuli Feng , Tat-Seng Chua

Predicting Click-Through Rates is a crucial function within recommendation and advertising platforms, as the output of CTR prediction determines the order of items shown to users. The Embedding \& MLP paradigm has become a standard approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Wenqiao Zhu , Lulu Wang , Jun Wu

Federated recommendation system usually trains a global model on the server without direct access to users' private data on their own devices. However, this separation of the recommendation model and users' private data poses a challenge in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chunxu Zhang , Guodong Long , Tianyi Zhou , Zijian Zhang , Peng Yan , Bo Yang

Among the machine learning applications to business, recommender systems would take one of the top places when it comes to success and adoption. They help the user in accelerating the process of search while helping businesses maximize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Kiran Rama , Pradeep Kumar , Bharat Bhasker

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

A common challenge for most current recommender systems is the cold-start problem. Due to the lack of user-item interactions, the fine-tuned recommender systems are unable to handle situations with new users or new items. Recently, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Manqing Dong , Feng Yuan , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

We address the cold start problem in recommendation systems assuming no contextual information is available neither about users, nor items. We consider the case in which we only have access to a set of ratings of items by users. Most of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Jérémie Mary , Romaric Gaudel , Preux Philippe

Recommending suitable items to a group of users, commonly referred to as the group recommendation task, is becoming increasingly urgent with the development of group activities. The challenges within the group recommendation task involve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Juntao Zhang , Sheng Wang , Zhiyu Chen , Xiandi Yang , Zhiyong Peng

Group Recommendation (GR), which aims to recommend items to groups of users, has become a promising and practical direction for recommendation systems. This paper points out two issues of the state-of-the-art GR models. (1) The pre-defined…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yue Liu , Shihao Zhu , Tianyuan Yang , Jian Ma , Wenliang Zhong

Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to build a recommendation system. In this paper, we propose a hybrid collaborative filtering model based on a Makovian random walk to address the data sparsity and cold…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Shang Shang , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Paul W. Cuff , Pan Hui

In this paper, we present a theoretical framework for tackling the cold-start collaborative filtering problem, where unknown targets (items or users) keep coming to the system, and there is a limited number of resources (users or items)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Xiaoxue Zhao , Jun Wang

Recommendation systems are essential ingredients in producing matches between products and buyers. Despite their ubiquity, they face two important challenges. First, they are data-intensive, a feature that precludes sophisticated…

General Economics · Economics 2020-10-08 Pedro M. Gardete , Carlos D. Santos

Group recommendation aims at providing optimized recommendations tailored to diverse groups, enabling groups to enjoy appropriate items. On the other hand, most existing group recommendation methods are built upon deep neural network (DNN)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chae-Hyun Kim , Yoon-Ryung Choi , Jin-Duk Park , Won-Yong Shin