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The cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommender systems. As a promising solution, content-based generative models usually project a cold-start item's content onto a warm-start item embedding to capture collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Zhihui Zhou , Lilin Zhang , Ning Yang

In recent years, bundle recommendation systems have gained significant attention in both academia and industry due to their ability to enhance user experience and increase sales by recommending a set of items as a bundle rather than…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Meng Sun , Lin Li , Ming Li , Xiaohui Tao , Dong Zhang , Qing Xie , Peipei Wang , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

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

A standard approach to Collaborative Filtering (CF), i.e. prediction of user ratings on items, relies on Matrix Factorization techniques. Representations for both users and items are computed from the observed ratings and used for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Gabriella Contardo , Ludovic Denoyer , Thierry Artieres

This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu

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

In the WWW (World Wide Web), dynamic development and spread of data has resulted a tremendous amount of information available on the Internet, yet user is unable to find relevant information in a short span of time. Consequently, a system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Denis Selimi , Krenare Pireva Nuci

The cold-start recommendation is an urgent problem in contemporary online applications. It aims to provide users whose behaviors are literally sparse with as accurate recommendations as possible. Many data-driven algorithms, such as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang , Jian Yu , Changsheng Xu

Many e-commerce websites use recommender systems to recommend items to users. When a user or item is new, the system may fail because not enough information is available on this user or item. Various solutions to this `cold-start problem'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-08-06 Lucas Bernardi , Jaap Kamps , Julia Kiseleva , Melanie JI Müller

Cold-start problem, which arises upon the new users arrival, is one of the fundamental problems in today's recommender approaches. Moreover, in some domains as TV or multime-dia-items take long time to experience by users, thus users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Juraj Visnovsky , Ondrej Kassak , Michal Kompan , Maria Bielikova

Bundle recommendation seeks to recommend a bundle of related items to users to improve both user experience and the profits of platform. Existing bundle recommendation models have progressed from capturing only user-bundle interactions to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Yunshan Ma , Yingzhi He , Xiang Wang , Yinwei Wei , Xiaoyu Du , Yuyangzi Fu , Tat-Seng Chua

The item cold-start problem is critical for online recommendation systems, as the success of this phase determines whether high-quality new items can transition to popular ones, receive essential feedback to inspire creators, and thus lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yu-Ting Lan , Yang Huo , Yi Shen , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

Recommender systems have become fundamental building blocks of modern online products and services, and have a substantial impact on user experience. In the past few years, deep learning methods have attracted a lot of research, and are now…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Davide Buffelli , Ashish Gupta , Agnieszka Strzalka , Vassilis Plachouras

Graph Neural Network (GNN)-based models have become the mainstream approach for recommender systems. Despite the effectiveness, they are still suffering from the cold-start problem, i.e., recommend for few-interaction items. Existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Taichi Liu , Chen Gao , Zhenyu Wang , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Recommender systems face a critical challenge in the item cold-start problem, which limits content diversity and exacerbates popularity bias by struggling to recommend new items. While existing solutions often rely on auxiliary data, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Dong Wang , Junyi Jiao , Arnab Bhadury , Yaping Zhang , Mingyan Gao , Onkar Dalal

Pure methods generally perform excellently in either recommendation accuracy or diversity, whereas hybrid methods generally outperform pure cases in both recommendation accuracy and diversity, but encounter the dilemma of optimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-26 Tian Qiu , Zi-Ke Zhang , Guang Chen

The KNN approach, which is widely used in recommender systems because of its efficiency, robustness and interpretability, is proposed for session-based recommendation recently and outperforms recurrent neural network models. It captures the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Feng Liu , Yuzhou Zhang

Recommender systems create enormous value for businesses and their consumers. They increase revenue for businesses while improving the consumer experience by recommending relevant products amidst huge product base. Product bundling is an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Ashutosh Nayak , Prajwal NJ , Sameeksha Keshav , Kavitha S. N. , Roja Reddy , Rajasekhara Reddy Duvvuru Muni

It is well known that collaborative filtering (CF) based recommender systems provide better modeling of users and items associated with considerable rating history. The lack of historical ratings results in the user and the item cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Oren Anava , Shahar Golan , Nadav Golbandi , Zohar Karnin , Ronny Lempel , Oleg Rokhlenko , Oren Somekh

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