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One-class collaborative filtering (OC-CF) is a common class of recommendation problem where only the positive class is explicitly observed (e.g., purchases, clicks). Autoencoder based recommenders such as AutoRec and variants demonstrate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Jin Peng Zhou , Ga Wu , Zheda Mai , Scott Sanner

Collaborative Filtering (CF) based recommendation methods have been widely studied, which can be generally categorized into two types, i.e., representation learning-based CF methods and matching function learning-based CF methods.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Zi-Yuan Hu , Jin Huang , Zhi-Hong Deng , Chang-Dong Wang , Ling Huang , Jian-Huang Lai , Philip S. Yu

Current sequential recommender systems are proposed to tackle the dynamic user preference learning with various neural techniques, such as Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, inference from the highly sparse user behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Yuhao Yang , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Chunzhen Huang , Da Luo , Kangyi Lin

Efficiency is crucial to the online recommender systems. Representing users and items as binary vectors for Collaborative Filtering (CF) can achieve fast user-item affinity computation in the Hamming space, in recent years, we have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Chenghao Liu , Tao Lu , Xin Wang , Zhiyong Cheng , Jianling Sun , Steven C. H. Hoi

Collaborative filtering (CF) aims to build a model from users' past behaviors and/or similar decisions made by other users, and use the model to recommend items for users. Despite of the success of previous collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-04 Junhua He , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Jarvan Law

Third-party libraries (TPLs) have become an integral part of modern software development, enhancing developer productivity and accelerating time-to-market. However, identifying suitable candidates from a rapidly growing and continuously…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Minh Hoang Vuong , Anh M. T. Bui , Phuong T. Nguyen , Davide Di Ruscio

Deep neural networks have emerged as a powerful technique for learning representations from user-item interaction data in collaborative filtering (CF) for recommender systems. However, many existing methods heavily rely on unique user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xubin Ren , Chao Huang

Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Cesare Bernardis , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

Collaborative Filtering(CF) recommender is a crucial application in the online market and ecommerce. However, CF recommender has been proven to suffer from persistent problems related to sparsity of the user rating that will further lead to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Elliot Dang , Zheyuan Hu , Tong Li

Recommender systems often struggle with data sparsity and cold-start scenarios, limiting their ability to provide accurate suggestions for new or infrequent users. This paper presents a Graph Attention Network (GAT) based Collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Danial Ebrat , Sepideh Ahmadian , Luis Rueda

In many digital contexts such as online news and e-tailing with many new users and items, recommendation systems face several challenges: i) how to make initial recommendations to users with little or no response history (i.e., cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Boya Xu , Yiting Deng , Carl Mela

Tripartite graph-based recommender systems markedly diverge from traditional models by recommending unique combinations such as user groups and item bundles. Despite their effectiveness, these systems exacerbate the longstanding cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Linxin Guo , Yaochen Zhu , Min Gao , Yinghui Tao , Junliang Yu , Chen Chen

Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods dominate real-world recommender systems given their ability to learn high-quality, sparse ID-embedding tables that effectively capture user preferences. These tables scale linearly with the number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Donald Loveland , Xinyi Wu , Tong Zhao , Danai Koutra , Neil Shah , Mingxuan Ju

The trend of data mining using deep learning models on graph neural networks has proven effective in identifying object features through signal encoders and decoders, particularly in recommendation systems utilizing collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Manh Mai Van , Tin T. Tran

Embedding & MLP has become a paradigm for modern large-scale recommendation system. However, this paradigm suffers from the cold-start problem which will seriously compromise the ecological health of recommendation systems. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Xu Zhao , Yi Ren , Ying Du , Shenzheng Zhang , Nian Wang

Cross-Domain Collaborative Filtering (CDCF) provides a way to alleviate data sparsity and cold-start problems present in recommendation systems by exploiting the knowledge from related domains. Existing CDCF models are either based on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Vijaikumar M , Shirish Shevade , M N Murty

For tackling the well known cold-start user problem in model-based recommender systems, one approach is to recommend a few items to a cold-start user and use the feedback to learn a profile. The learned profile can then be used to make good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Sampoorna Biswas , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Senjuti Basu Ray

Traditional recommendation systems rely on past usage data in order to generate new recommendations. Those approaches fail to generate sensible recommendations for new users and items into the system due to missing information about their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Ivica Obadić , Gjorgji Madjarov , Ivica Dimitrovski , Dejan Gjorgjevikj

User-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular approaches to create recommender systems. CF, however, suffers from data sparsity and the cold-start problem since users often rate only a small fraction of available items.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Tomislav Duricic , Emanuel Lacic , Dominik Kowald , Elisabeth Lex

The cold-start problem is a common challenge for most recommender systems. The practical application of most cold-start methods is hindered by the deficiency in auxiliary content information for users. Moreover, most methods necessitate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Linan Zheng , Jiale Chen , Pengsheng Liu , Guangfa Zhang , Jinyun Fang