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Cross domain recommendation (CDR) is one popular research topic in recommender systems. This paper focuses on a popular scenario for CDR where different domains share the same set of users but no overlapping items. The majority of recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Xu Chen , Ya Zhang , Ivor Tsang , Yuangang Pan , Jingchao Su

Cold-start problems are enormous challenges in practical recommender systems. One promising solution for this problem is cross-domain recommendation (CDR) which leverages rich information from an auxiliary (source) domain to improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yongchun Zhu , Kaikai Ge , Fuzhen Zhuang , Ruobing Xie , Dongbo Xi , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) offers a promising solution to the data sparsity problem by enabling knowledge transfer across source and target domains. However, many recent CDR models overlook crucial issues such as privacy as well as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ziqi Yang , Zhaopeng Peng , Zihui Wang , Jianzhong Qi , Chaochao Chen , Weike Pan , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang , Xiaoliang Fan

Multi-Task Learning (MTL) is a framework, where multiple related tasks are learned jointly and benefit from a shared representation space, or parameter transfer. To provide sufficient learning support, modern MTL uses annotated data with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Dimitrios Kollias , Viktoriia Sharmanska , Stefanos Zafeiriou

In many practical transfer learning scenarios, the feature distribution is different across the source and target domains (i.e. non-i.i.d.). Maximum mean discrepancy (MMD), as a domain discrepancy metric, has achieved promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Lei Zhang , Shanshan Wang , Guang-Bin Huang , Wangmeng Zuo , Jian Yang , David Zhang

Cross-domain recommendation is an important method to improve recommender system performance, especially when observations in target domains are sparse. However, most existing techniques focus on single-target or dual-target cross-domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chenglin Li , Yuanzhen Xie , Chenyun Yu , Bo Hu , Zang li , Guoqiang Shu , Xiaohu Qie , Di Niu

Transfer learning has been demonstrated to be successful and essential in diverse applications, which transfers knowledge from related but different source domains to the target domain. Online transfer learning(OTL) is a more challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Yuntao Du , Zhiwen Tan , Qian Chen , Yi Zhang , Chongjun Wang

In this paper, we present a new approach to Transfer Learning (TL) in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for cross-domain tasks. Many of the available techniques approach the transfer architecture as a method of speeding up the target task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-23 Girish Joshi , Girish Chowdhary

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a successful approach commonly used by many recommender systems. Conventional CF-based methods use the ratings given to items by users as the sole source of information for learning to make recommendation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Hao Wang , Naiyan Wang , Dit-Yan Yeung

Recommender systems frequently encounter data sparsity issues, particularly when addressing cold-start scenarios involving new users or items. Multi-source cross-domain recommendation (CDR) addresses these challenges by transferring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Lili Xie , Yi Zhang , Ruihong Qiu , Jiajun Liu , Sen Wang

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in Multi-Target Cross-Domain Recommendation (MTCDR), which aims to enhance recommendation performance across multiple domains simultaneously. Existing MTCDR methods primarily rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jinqiu Jin , Yang Zhang , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He

This paper presents an online transfer learning framework for improving temperature predictions in residential buildings. In transfer learning, prediction models trained under a set of available data from a target domain (e.g., house with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-14 Thomas Grubinger , Georgios Chasparis , Thomas Natschlaeger

Multi-task learning (MTL) is an active field in deep learning in which we train a model to jointly learn multiple tasks by exploiting relationships between the tasks. It has been shown that MTL helps the model share the learned features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Akihiro Nakano , Shi Chen , Kazuyuki Demachi

Transfer learning is a problem defined over two domains. These two domains share the same feature space and class label space, but have significantly different distributions. One domain has sufficient labels, named as source domain, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Hongqi Wang , Anfeng Xu , Shanshan Wang , Sunny Chughtai

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) aims to leverage the correlation of users' behaviors in both the source and target domains to improve the user preference modeling in the target domain. Conventional CDR methods typically explore the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Haokai Ma , Ruobing Xie , Lei Meng , Xin Chen , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Jie Zhou

The capacity to transfer knowledge across scientific domains relies on shared organizational principles. However, existing transfer-learning methodologies often fail to bridge radically heterogeneous systems, particularly under severe data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Daniele Caligiore

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR), aiming to extract and transfer knowledge across domains, has attracted wide attention for its efficacy in addressing data sparsity and cold-start problems. Despite significant advances in representation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Luankang Zhang , Hao Wang , Suojuan Zhang , Mingjia Yin , Yongqiang Han , Jiaqing Zhang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Transferring knowledge across many streaming processes remains an uncharted territory in the existing literature and features unique characteristics: no labelled instance of the target domain, covariate shift of source and target domain,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Mahardhika Pratama , Marcus de Carvalho , Renchunzi Xie , Edwin Lughofer , Jie Lu

Machine learning (ML) tasks often utilize large-scale data that is drawn from several distinct sources, such as different locations, treatment arms, or groups. In such settings, practitioners often desire predictions that not only exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Gauri Jain , Dominik Rothenhäusler , Kirk Bansak , Elisabeth Paulson

Deep text matching approaches have been widely studied for many applications including question answering and information retrieval systems. To deal with a domain that has insufficient labeled data, these approaches can be used in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Chen Qu , Feng Ji , Minghui Qiu , Liu Yang , Zhiyu Min , Haiqing Chen , Jun Huang , W. Bruce Croft