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This paper proposes a recommender system to alleviate the cold-start problem that can estimate user preferences based on only a small number of items. To identify a user's preference in the cold state, existing recommender systems, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Hoyeop Lee , Jinbae Im , Seongwon Jang , Hyunsouk Cho , Sehee Chung

Recommendation for new users, also called user cold start, has been a well-recognized challenge for online recommender systems. Most existing methods view the crux as the lack of initial data. However, in this paper, we argue that there are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shangfeng Dai , Haobin Lin , Zhichen Zhao , Jianying Lin , Honghuan Wu , Zhe Wang , Sen Yang , Ji Liu

Personalized fashion recommendation is a difficult task because 1) the decisions are highly correlated with users' aesthetic appetite, which previous work frequently overlooks, and 2) many new items are constantly rolling out that cause…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Chongxian Chen , Fan Mo , Xin Fan , Hayato Yamana

State of the art music recommender systems mainly rely on either matrix factorization-based collaborative filtering approaches or deep learning architectures. Deep learning models usually use metadata for content-based filtering or predict…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Khalil Damak , Olfa Nasraoui

This paper leverages heterogeneous auxiliary information to address the data sparsity problem of recommender systems. We propose a model that learns a shared feature space from heterogeneous data, such as item descriptions, product tags and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Tianyu Li , Yukun Ma , Jiu Xu , Bjorn Stenger , Chen Liu , Yu Hirate

The use of user/product information in sentiment analysis is important, especially for cold-start users/products, whose number of reviews are very limited. However, current models do not deal with the cold-start problem which is typical in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Jihyeok Kim , Sua Sung , Seung-won Hwang

Recently deep learning based recommendation systems have been actively explored to solve the cold-start problem using a hybrid approach. However, the majority of previous studies proposed a hybrid model where collaborative filtering and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Jongpil Lee , Kyungyun Lee , Jiyoung Park , Jangyeon Park , Juhan Nam

Exposure bias is a well-known issue in recommender systems where items and suppliers are not equally represented in the recommendation results. This is especially problematic when bias is amplified over time as a few items (e.g., popular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Masoud Mansoury , Bamshad Mobasher , Herke van Hoof

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

Recommender system has attracted lots of attentions since it helps users alleviate the information overload problem. Matrix factorization technique is one of the most widely employed collaborative filtering techniques in the research of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Yonghong Yu , Can Wang , Yang Gao

Recommender systems can be formulated as a matrix completion problem, predicting ratings from user and item parameter vectors. Optimizing these parameters by subsampling data becomes difficult as the number of users and items grows. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Elias Tragas , Calvin Luo , Maxime Gazeau , Kevin Luk , David Duvenaud

Explainable recommendation is far from being well solved partly due to three challenges. The first is the personalization of preference learning, which requires that different items/users have different contributions to the learning of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Huanrui Luo , Ning Yang , Philip S. Yu

Recommendation systems are essential ingredients in producing matches between products and buyers. Despite their ubiquity, they face two important challenges. First, they are data-intensive, a feature that precludes sophisticated…

General Economics · Economics 2020-10-08 Pedro M. Gardete , Carlos D. Santos

Using only implicit data, many recommender systems fail in general to provide a precise set of recommendations to users with limited interaction history. This issue is regarded as the "Cold Start" problem and is typically resolved by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-04-11 Yubo Zhou , Ali Nadaf

Combining simple elements from the literature, we define a linear model that is geared toward sparse data, in particular implicit feedback data for recommender systems. We show that its training objective has a closed-form solution, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Harald Steck

We propose a new approach that enables end users to directly solve the cold start problem by themselves. The cold start problem is a common issue in recommender systems, and many methods have been proposed to address the problem on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Ryoma Sato

A common challenge for most current recommender systems is the cold-start problem. Due to the lack of user-item interactions, the fine-tuned recommender systems are unable to handle situations with new users or new items. Recently, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Manqing Dong , Feng Yuan , Lina Yao , Xiwei Xu , Liming Zhu

Recommender Systems have been widely used to help users in finding what they are looking for thus tackling the information overload problem. After several years of research and industrial findings looking after better algorithms to improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Vito Bellini , Angelo Schiavone , Tommaso Di Noia , Azzurra Ragone , Eugenio Di Sciascio

The item cold-start problem poses a fundamental challenge for music recommendation: newly added tracks lack the interaction history that collaborative filtering (CF) requires. Existing approaches often address this problem by learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yan-Martin Tamm , Gregor Meehan , Vojtěch Nekl , Vojtěch Vančura , Rodrigo Alves , Johan Pauwels , Anna Aljanaki

Bundle recommendation aims to recommend a set of items to each user. However, the sparser interactions between users and bundles raise a big challenge, especially in cold-start scenarios. Traditional collaborative filtering methods do not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tuan-Nghia Bui , Huy-Son Nguyen , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le