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Click-Through Rate prediction (CTR) is a crucial task in recommender systems, and it gained considerable attention in the past few years. The primary purpose of recent research emphasizes obtaining meaningful and powerful representations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Shereen Elsayed , Lars Schmidt-Thieme

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction, a core task in recommendation systems, aims to estimate the probability of users clicking on items. Existing models predominantly follow a discriminative paradigm, which relies heavily on explicit…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mingjia Yin , Junwei Pan , Hao Wang , Ximei Wang , Shangyu Zhang , Jie Jiang , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Data sparsity and cold-start problems are persistent challenges in recommendation systems. Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) is a promising solution that utilizes knowledge from the source domain to improve the recommendation performance in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yanyu Chen , Yao Yao , Wai Kin Victor Chan , Li Xiao , Kai Zhang , Liang Zhang , Yun Ye

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

A recommender system aims to recommend items that a user is interested in among many items. The need for the recommender system has been expanded by the information explosion. Various approaches have been suggested for providing meaningful…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Sungwoon Choi , Heonseok Ha , Uiwon Hwang , Chanju Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Sungroh Yoon

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been used recently to align diffusion models with downstream objectives such as aesthetic quality and text-image consistency by fine-tuning them to maximize a single reward function under a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Min Cheng , Fatemeh Doudi , Dileep Kalathil , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Panganamala R. Kumar

On online advertising platforms, newly introduced promotional ads face the cold-start problem, as they lack sufficient user feedback for model training. In this work, we propose LLM-HYPER, a novel framework that treats large language models…

Online travel platforms (OTPs), e.g., Ctrip.com or Fliggy.com, can effectively provide travel-related products or services to users. In this paper, we focus on the multi-scenario click-through rate (CTR) prediction, i.e., training a unified…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Peilin Chen , Hong Wen , Jing Zhang , Fuyu Lv , Zhao Li , Qijie Shen , Wanjie Tao , Ying Zhou , Chao Zhang

Cold-start problem is still a very challenging problem in recommender systems. Fortunately, the interactions of the cold-start users in the auxiliary source domain can help cold-start recommendations in the target domain. How to transfer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yongchun Zhu , Zhenwei Tang , Yudan Liu , Fuzhen Zhuang , Ruobing Xie , Xu Zhang , Leyu Lin , Qing He

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

Recent advances in generative models have inspired the field of recommender systems to explore generative approaches, but most existing research focuses on sequence generation, a paradigm ill-suited for click-through rate (CTR) prediction.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Moyu Zhang , Yun Chen , Yujun Jin , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang

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

Recommendation systems have been extensively studied by many literature in the past and are ubiquitous in online advertisement, shopping industry/e-commerce, query suggestions in search engines, and friend recommendation in social networks.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Farzaneh Rajabi , Jack Siyuan He

Recommendation systems suffer in the strict cold-start (SCS) scenario, where the user-item interactions are entirely unavailable. The ID-based approaches completely fail to work. Cold-start recommenders, on the other hand, leverage item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yuwei Cao , Liangwei Yang , Chen Wang , Zhiwei Liu , Hao Peng , Chenyu You , Philip S. Yu

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction is a crucial task in recommendation systems, online searches, and advertising platforms, where accurately capturing users' real interests in content is essential for performance. However, existing methods…

Many platforms, such as e-commerce websites, offer both search and recommendation services simultaneously to better meet users' diverse needs. Recommendation services suggest items based on user preferences, while search services allow…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Yuening Wang , Man Chen , Yaochen Hu , Wei Guo , Yingxue Zhang , Huifeng Guo , Yong Liu , Mark Coates

Cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has demonstrated to be an effective solution for alleviating the user cold-start issue. By leveraging rich user-item interactions available in a richly informative source domain, CDR could improve the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiaodong Li , Jiawei Sheng , Jiangxia Cao , Xinghua Zhang , Wenyuan Zhang , Yong Sun , Shirui Pan , Zhihong Tian , Tingwen Liu

Click-through rate prediction is an essential task in industrial applications, such as online advertising. Recently deep learning based models have been proposed, which follow a similar Embedding\&MLP paradigm. In these methods large scale…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-09-14 Guorui Zhou , Chengru Song , Xiaoqiang Zhu , Ying Fan , Han Zhu , Xiao Ma , Yanghui Yan , Junqi Jin , Han Li , Kun Gai

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

Reranking plays a crucial role in modern multi-stage recommender systems by rearranging the initial ranking list to model interplay between items. Considering the inherent challenges of reranking such as combinatorial searching space, some…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Xiao Lin , Xiaokai Chen , Chenyang Wang , Hantao Shu , Linfeng Song , Biao Li , Peng jiang