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Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is an important method to improve recommender system performance, especially when observations in target domains are sparse. However, most existing cross-domain recommendations fail to fully utilize the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Yuhao Luo , Shiwei Ma , Mingjun Nie , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Jingping Shao , Qianfang Xu

Federated learning (FL), as a type of collaborative machine learning framework, is capable of preserving private data from mobile terminals (MTs) while training the data into useful models. Nevertheless, from a viewpoint of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

Cross-domain Recommendation (CDR) exploits multi-domain correlations to alleviate data sparsity. As a core task within this field, inter-domain recommendation focuses on predicting preferences for users who interact in a source domain but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Ziang Lu , Lei Sang , Lin Mu , Yiwen Zhang

Cross-platform recommendation aims to improve recommendation accuracy by gathering heterogeneous features from different platforms. However, such cross-silo collaborations between platforms are restricted by increasingly stringent privacy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Sheng Wan , Dashan Gao , Hanlin Gu , Daning Hu

Learning accurate cross-domain preference mappings in the absence of overlapped users/items has presented a persistent challenge in Non-overlapping Cross-domain Recommendation (NOCDR). Despite the efforts made in previous studies to address…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Jing Du , Zesheng Ye , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Lina Yao

Federated learning enables distributed clients to collaborate on training while storing their data locally to protect client privacy. However, due to the heterogeneity of data, models, and devices, the final global model may need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Wolong Xing , Zhenkui Shi , Hongyan Peng , Xiantao Hu , Xianxian Li

Federated recommendations (FRs) have emerged as an on-device privacy-preserving paradigm, attracting considerable attention driven by rising demands for data security. Existing FRs predominantly adapt ID embeddings to represent items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kang Fu , Honglei Zhang , Zikai Zhang , Jundong Chen , Xin Zhou , Zhiqi Shen , Dusit Niyato , Yidong Li

Federated cross-domain recommendation (Federated CDR) aims to collaboratively learn personalized recommendation models across heterogeneous domains while preserving data privacy. Recently, large language model (LLM)-based recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Xinrui He , Ting-Wei Li , Tianxin Wei , Xuying Ning , Xinyu He , Wenxuan Bao , Hanghang Tong , Jingrui He

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is a promising paradigm inspired by transfer learning to solve the cold-start problem in recommender systems. Existing state-of-the-art CDR methods train an explicit mapping function to transfer the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Guohang Zeng , Qian Zhang , Guangquan Zhang , Jie Lu

Online platforms such as Amazon and Netflix serve users across multiple countries and regions, underscoring the importance of multi-market recommendation (MMR). Most MMR methods adopt a pre-training and fine-tuning paradigm, in which a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Jun Zhang , Dugang Liu , Xing Tang , Xiuqiang He , Zhong Ming

User cold-start problem is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. Fortunately, cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has emerged as a highly effective remedy for the user cold-start challenge, with recently developed diffusion…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xiaodong Li , Juwei Yue , Xinghua Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Wenyuan Zhang , Taoyu Su , Zefeng Zhang , Tingwen Liu

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) methods are proposed to tackle the sparsity problem in click through rate (CTR) estimation. Existing CDR methods directly transfer knowledge from the source domains to the target domain and ignore the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ke Xu , Ziliang Wang , Wei Zheng , Yuhao Ma , Chenglin Wang , Nengxue Jiang , Cai Cao

Cross-domain recommender (CDR) systems aim to enhance the performance of the target domain by utilizing data from other related domains. However, irrelevant information from the source domain may instead degrade target domain performance,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Hanyu Li , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Jiayu Li , Cunxiang Yin , Yancheng He , Guoqiang Xu , Min Zhang , Shaoping Ma

This paper proposes a data privacy protection framework based on federated learning, which aims to realize effective cross-domain data collaboration under the premise of ensuring data privacy through distributed learning. Federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yiwei Zhang , Jie Liu , Jiawei Wang , Lu Dai , Fan Guo , Guohui Cai

Personalized News Recommendation systems (PNR) have emerged as a solution to information overload by predicting and suggesting news items tailored to individual user interests. However, traditional PNR systems face several challenges,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Mehdi Khalaj , Shahrzad Golestani Najafabadi , Julita Vassileva

Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) is an effective way to alleviate the cold-start problem. However, previous work severely ignores fairness and bias when learning the mapping function, which is used to obtain the representations for fresh…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiakai Tang , Xu Chen , Xueyang Feng

Integrating Foundation Models (FMs) into recommendation systems is an emerging and promising research direction. However, centralized paradigms face growing pressure from privacy concerns and strict regulatory requirements. Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhiwei Li , Guodong Long , Chunxu Zhang , Honglei Zhang , Jing Jiang , Chengqi Zhang

Recommender systems can be privacy-sensitive. To protect users' private historical interactions, federated learning has been proposed in distributed learning for user representations. Using federated recommender (FedRec) systems, users can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Qi Hu , Yangqiu Song

In the real world, users always have multiple interests while surfing different services to enrich their daily lives, e.g., watching hot short videos/live streamings. To describe user interests precisely for a better user experience, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yu Liu , Hanbin Jiang , Lei Zhu , Yu Zhang , Yuqi Mao , Jiangxia Cao , Shuchao Pang

In addressing the persistent challenges of data-sparsity and cold-start issues in domain-expert recommender systems, Cross-Domain Recommendation (CDR) emerges as a promising methodology. CDR aims at enhancing prediction performance in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Jiangxia Cao , Shen Wang , Gaode Chen , Rui Huang , Shuang Yang , Zhaojie Liu , Guorui Zhou