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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

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

This paper presents a solution to the challenges faced by contrastive learning in sequential recommendation systems. In particular, it addresses the issue of false negative, which limits the effectiveness of recommendation algorithms. By…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jaeheyoung Jeon , Jung Hyun Ryu , Jewoong Cho , Myungjoo Kang

Addressing the challenges related to data sparsity, cold-start problems, and diversity in recommendation systems is both crucial and demanding. Many current solutions leverage knowledge graphs to tackle these issues by combining both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yejin Kim , Scott Rome , Kevin Foley , Mayur Nankani , Rimon Melamed , Javier Morales , Abhay Yadav , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H. Howie Huang

Cold-start challenges in recommender systems necessitate leveraging auxiliary features beyond user-item interactions. However, the presence of irrelevant or noisy features can degrade predictive performance, whereas an excessive number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Nikita Sukhorukov , Danil Gusak , Evgeny Frolov

Sequential recommenders have made great strides in capturing a user's preferences. Nevertheless, the cold-start recommendation remains a fundamental challenge as they typically involve limited user-item interactions for personalization.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Minchang Kim , Yongjin Yang , Jung Hyun Ryu , Taesup Kim

In this paper we propose to solve an important problem in recommendation -- user cold start, based on meta leaning method. Previous meta learning approaches finetune all parameters for each new user, which is both computing and storage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Liang Zhao , Yang Wang , Daxiang Dong , Hao Tian

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a set of items to users for overall consumption. Existing bundle recommendation models primarily depend on observed user-bundle interactions, limiting exploration of newly-emerged bundles that are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yihang Li , Zhuo Liu , Wei Wei

In neutrino physics, analyses often depend on large simulated datasets, making it essential for models to generalise effectively to real-world detector data. Contrastive learning, a well-established technique in deep learning, offers a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-23 Alex Wilkinson , Radi Radev , Saul Alonso-Monsalve

Recent years have witnessed growing interests in multimedia recommendation, which aims to predict whether a user will interact with an item with multimodal contents. Previous studies focus on modeling user-item interactions with multimodal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Jinghao Zhang , Yanqiao Zhu , Qiang Liu , Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Recommender systems, which analyze users' preference patterns to suggest potential targets, are indispensable in today's society. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is the most popular recommendation model. Specifically, Graph Neural Network…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Zhuang Liu , Yunpu Ma , Yuanxin Ouyang , Zhang Xiong

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

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in optimizing long-term user interest in recommender systems. However, existing RL-based recommendation methods need a large number of interactions for each user to learn a robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Yanan Wang , Yong Ge , Li Li , Rui Chen , Tong Xu

As medical diagnoses increasingly leverage multimodal data, machine learning models are expected to effectively fuse heterogeneous information while remaining robust to missing modalities. In this work, we propose a novel multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yi Gu , Kuniaki Saito , Jiaxin Ma

Micro-video recommender systems suffer from the ubiquitous noises in users' behaviors, which might render the learned user representation indiscriminating, and lead to trivial recommendations (e.g., popular items) or even weird ones that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Shengyu Zhang , Bofang Li , Dong Yao , Fuli Feng , Jieming Zhu , Wenyan Fan , Zhou Zhao , Xiaofei He , Tat-seng Chua , Fei Wu

A well-informed recommendation framework could not only help users identify their interested items, but also benefit the revenue of various online platforms (e.g., e-commerce, social media). Traditional recommendation models usually assume…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Wei Wei , Chao Huang , Lianghao Xia , Yong Xu , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Modern Review Helpfulness Prediction systems are dependent upon multiple modalities, typically texts and images. Unfortunately, those contemporary approaches pay scarce attention to polish representations of cross-modal relations and tend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Thong Nguyen , Xiaobao Wu , Anh-Tuan Luu , Cong-Duy Nguyen , Zhen Hai , Lidong Bing

Along with the exponential growth of online platforms and services, recommendation systems have become essential for identifying relevant items based on user preferences. The domain of sequential recommendation aims to capture evolving user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Jung Hyun Ryu , Jaeheyoung Jeon , Jewoong Cho , Myungjoo Kang 1

Recommender systems and search are both indispensable in facilitating personalization and ease of browsing in online fashion platforms. However, the two tools often operate independently, failing to combine the strengths of recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Karin Sevegnani , Arjun Seshadri , Tian Wang , Anurag Beniwal , Julian McAuley , Alan Lu , Gerard Medioni

Session-based recommendation aims to predict intents of anonymous users based on limited behaviors. With the ability in alleviating data sparsity, contrastive learning is prevailing in the task. However, we spot that existing contrastive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xiaokun Zhang , Bo Xu , Fenglong Ma , Zhizheng Wang , Liang Yang , Hongfei Lin
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