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Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a vital task in industrial recommendation systems. Most existing methods focus on the network architecture design of the CTR model for better accuracy and suffer from the data sparsity problem.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Qi Liu , Xuyang Hou , Defu Lian , Zhe Wang , Haoran Jin , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Cold-start bundle recommendation focuses on modeling new bundles with insufficient information to provide recommendations. Advanced bundle recommendation models usually learn bundle representations from multiple views (e.g., interaction…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Ming Li , Lin Li , Xiaohui Tao , Dong Zhang , Jimmy Xiangji Huang

Cold-start is a very common and still open problem in the Recommender Systems literature. Since cold start items do not have any interaction, collaborative algorithms are not applicable. One of the main strategies is to use pure or hybrid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Cesare Bernardis , Maurizio Ferrari Dacrema , Paolo Cremonesi

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

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction has become an essential task in digital industries, such as digital advertising or online shopping. Many deep learning-based methods have been implemented and have become state-of-the-art models in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ibrahim Can Yilmaz , Said Aldemir

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

Recommender systems predict personalized item rankings based on user preference distributions derived from historical behavior data. Recently, diffusion models (DMs) have gained attention in recommendation for their ability to model complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shuo Liu , An Zhang , Guoqing Hu , Hong Qian , Tat-seng Chua

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…

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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

Item cold-start is a pervasive challenge for collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems. Existing methods often train cold-start models by mapping auxiliary item content, such as images or text descriptions, into the embedding space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Gregor Meehan , Johan Pauwels

Understanding user interests is crucial for Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction tasks. In sequential recommendation, pre-training from user historical behaviors through self-supervised learning can better comprehend user dynamic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Ruidong Han , Qianzhong Li , He Jiang , Rui Li , Yurou Zhao , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction holds a paramount position in recommender systems. The prevailing ID-based paradigm underperforms in cold-start scenarios due to the skewed distribution of feature frequency. Additionally, the utilization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Xingmei Wang , Weiwen Liu , Xiaolong Chen , Qi Liu , Xu Huang , Yichao Wang , Xiangyang Li , Yasheng Wang , Zhenhua Dong , Defu Lian , Ruiming Tang

A large-scale industrial recommendation platform typically consists of multiple associated scenarios, requiring a unified click-through rate (CTR) prediction model to serve them simultaneously. Existing approaches for multi-scenario CTR…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Xing Tang , Yang Qiao , Yuwen Fu , Fuyuan Lyu , Dugang Liu , Xiuqiang He

Facebook Marketplace is quickly gaining momentum among consumers as a favored customer-to-customer (C2C) product trading platform. The recommendation system behind it helps to significantly improve the user experience. Building the…

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The rapid evolution of technology has transformed business operations and customer interactions worldwide, with personalization emerging as a key opportunity for e-commerce companies to engage customers more effectively. The application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Miguel Alves Gomes , Philipp Meisen , Tobias Meisen

Collaborative filtering often suffers from sparsity and cold start problems in real recommendation scenarios, therefore, researchers and engineers usually use side information to address the issues and improve the performance of recommender…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Hongwei Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Miao Zhao , Wenjie Li , Xing Xie , Minyi Guo

Modern industrial recommendation systems improve recommendation performance by integrating multimodal representations from pre-trained models into ID-based Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction frameworks. However, existing approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Alin Fan , Hanqing Li , Sihan Lu , Jingsong Yuan , Jiandong Zhang

Click-through rate (CTR) estimation is a fundamental task in personalized advertising and recommender systems and it's important for ranking models to effectively capture complex high-order features.Inspired by the success of ELMO and Bert…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Zhiqiang Wang , Qingyun She , PengTao Zhang , Junlin Zhang

The data scarcity of user preferences and the cold-start problem often appear in real-world applications and limit the recommendation accuracy of collaborative filtering strategies. Leveraging the selections of social friends and foes can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Dimitrios Rafailidis

CTR prediction is essential for modern recommender systems. Ranging from early factorization machines to deep learning based models in recent years, existing CTR methods focus on capturing useful feature interactions or mining important…

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