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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

This paper proposes a cold start recommendation model that integrates contrastive learning, aiming to solve the problem of performance degradation of recommendation systems in cold start scenarios due to the scarcity of user and item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Jiacheng Hu , Tai An , Zidong Yu , Junliang Du , Yuanshuai Luo

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in enhancing recommender systems. However, addressing the cold-start recommendation problem, where users lack historical data, remains a considerable…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Hai-Dang Kieu , Minh Duc Nguyen , Thanh-Son Nguyen , Dung D. Le

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as promising recommendation systems, offering novel ways to model user preferences through generative approaches. However, many existing methods often rely solely on text semantics or incorporate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Leo Feng , Leonid Sigal , Mohamed Osama Ahmed

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

The cold-start problem is quite challenging for existing recommendation models. Specifically, for the new items with only a few interactions, their ID embeddings are trained inadequately, leading to poor recommendation performance. Some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Haonan Hu , Dazhong Rong , Jianhai Chen , Qinming He , Zhenguang Liu

Sequential recommendation systems aim to predict users' next likely interaction based on their history. However, these systems face data sparsity and cold-start problems. Utilizing data from other domains, known as multi-domain methods, is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Zuoli Tang , Zhaoxin Huan , Zihao Li , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Hu , Chilin Fu , Jun Zhou , Lixin Zou , Chenliang Li

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

Sequential recommender systems predict items that may interest users by modeling their preferences based on historical interactions. Traditional sequential recommendation methods rely on capturing implicit collaborative filtering signals…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shenghao Yang , Weizhi Ma , Peijie Sun , Qingyao Ai , Yiqun Liu , Mingchen Cai , Min Zhang

A huge amount of user generated content related to movies is created with the popularization of web 2.0. With these continues exponential growth of data, there is an inevitable need for recommender systems as people find it difficult to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Lasitha Uyangoda , Supunmali Ahangama , Tharindu Ranasinghe

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, prompting several studies to explore their potential in recommendation systems. However, these attempts have so far resulted in only modest improvements over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Junyi Chen , Lu Chi , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

Large language models (LLMs) are revolutionizing conversational recommender systems by adeptly indexing item content, understanding complex conversational contexts, and generating relevant item titles. However, controlling the distribution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zhankui He , Zhouhang Xie , Harald Steck , Dawen Liang , Rahul Jha , Nathan Kallus , Julian McAuley

Sequential recommendations (SR) predict users' future interactions based on their historical behavior. The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has brought powerful generative and reasoning capabilities, significantly enhancing SR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Qiyong Zhong , Jiajie Su , Ming Yang , Yunshan Ma , Xiaolin Zheng , Chaochao Chen

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

Cold-start recommendation is one of the major challenges faced by recommender systems (RS). Herein, we focus on the user cold-start problem. Recently, methods utilizing side information or meta-learning have been used to model cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiangyu Zhang , Zongqiang Kuang , Zehao Zhang , Fan Huang , Xianfeng Tan

Recommender systems have become an essential instrument in a wide range of industries to personalize the user experience. A significant issue that has captured both researchers' and industry experts' attention is the cold start problem for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Ivan Maksimov , Rodrigo Rivera-Castro , Evgeny Burnaev

In recent years, large language models (LLM) have emerged as powerful tools for diverse natural language processing tasks. However, their potential for recommender systems under the generative recommendation paradigm remains relatively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Jianchao Ji , Zelong Li , Shuyuan Xu , Wenyue Hua , Yingqiang Ge , Juntao Tan , Yongfeng Zhang

When SE data is scarce, "active learners" use models learned from tiny samples of the data to find the next most informative example to label. In this way, effective models can be generated using very little data. For multi-objective…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lohith Senthilkumar , Tim Menzies

This study deeply explores the application of large language model (LLM) in personalized recommendation system of e-commerce. Aiming at the limitations of traditional recommendation algorithms in processing large-scale and multi-dimensional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Wei Xu , Jue Xiao , Jianlong Chen

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