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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Lu Zheng , Zhao Tan , Kun Han , Ren Mao

Recommender systems are popular in e-commerce as they suggest items of interest to users. Researchers have addressed the cold-start problem where either the user or the item is new. However, the situation with both new user and new item has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-05-08 Fan Min , William Zhu

Recommender systems can automatically recommend users with items that they probably like. The goal of them is to model the user-item interaction by effectively representing the users and items. Existing methods have primarily learned the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Xue Dong , Xuemeng Song , Na Zheng , Yinwei Wei , Zhongzhou Zhao

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

Recommender systems suffer from the cold-start problem whenever a new user joins the platform or a new item is added to the catalog. To address item cold-start, we propose to replace the embedding layer in sequential recommenders with a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Kuba Weimann , Tim O. F. Conrad

Although Recommender Systems have been comprehensively studied in the past decade both in industry and academia, most of current recommender systems suffer from the following issues: 1) The data sparsity of the user-item matrix seriously…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Ze Wang , Hong Li

This paper is an extended version of [Burashnikova et al., 2021, arXiv: 2012.06910], where we proposed a theoretically supported sequential strategy for training a large-scale Recommender System (RS) over implicit feedback, mainly in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Aleksandra Burashnikova , Yury Maximov , Marianne Clausel , Charlotte Laclau , Franck Iutzeler , Massih-Reza Amini

Web recommendation services bear great importance in e-commerce, as they aid the user in navigating through the items that are most relevant to her needs. In a typical Web site, long history of previous activities or purchases by the user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-11-09 Bálint Daróczy , Frederick Ayala-Gómez , András Benczúr

Bundle recommendation aims to suggest a set of interconnected items to users. However, diverse interaction types and sparse interaction matrices often pose challenges for previous approaches in accurately predicting user-bundle adoptions.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tuan-Nghia Bui , Huy-Son Nguyen , Cam-Van Nguyen Thi , Hoang-Quynh Le , Duc-Trong Le

Predicting Click-Through Rates is a crucial function within recommendation and advertising platforms, as the output of CTR prediction determines the order of items shown to users. The Embedding \& MLP paradigm has become a standard approach…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Wenqiao Zhu , Lulu Wang , Jun Wu

Sequential recommendation task aims to predict user preference over items in the future given user historical behaviors. The order of user behaviors implies that there are resourceful sequential patterns embedded in the behavior history…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Jiarui Qin , Kan Ren , Yuchen Fang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

The item cold-start problem is crucial for online recommender systems, as the success of the cold-start phase determines whether items can transition into popular ones. Prompt learning, a powerful technique used in natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Yuezihan Jiang , Gaode Chen , Wenhan Zhang , Jingchi Wang , Yinjie Jiang , Qi Zhang , Jingjian Lin , Peng Jiang , Kaigui Bian

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

A fundamental challenge for sequential recommenders is to capture the sequential patterns of users toward modeling how users transit among items. In many practical scenarios, however, there are a great number of cold-start users with only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-15 Jianling Wang , Kaize Ding , James Caverlee

Cross-domain cold-start recommendation is an increasingly emerging issue for recommender systems. Existing works mainly focus on solving either cross-domain user recommendation or cold-start content recommendation. However, when a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Huiling Zhou , Jie Liu , Zhikang Li , Jin Yu , Hongxia Yang

Sequential Recommendation aims to recommend items that a target user will interact with in the near future based on the historically interacted items. While modeling temporal dynamics is crucial for sequential recommendation, most of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Zeyuan Chen , Wei Zhang , Junchi Yan , Gang Wang , Jianyong Wang

Sequential recommendation predicts each user's next item based on their historical interaction sequence. Recently, diffusion models have attracted significant attention in this area due to their strong ability to model user interest…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Li Li , Mingyue Cheng , Yuyang Ye , Zhiding Liu , Enhong Chen

Cold-start recommendation remains a central challenge in dynamic, open-world platforms, requiring models to recommend for newly registered users (user cold-start) and to recommend newly introduced items to existing users (item cold-start)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Zhen Zhang , Jujia Zhao , Xinyu Ma , Xin Xin , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

As one of the most popular services over online communities, the social recommendation has attracted increasing research efforts recently. Among all the recommendation tasks, an important one is social item recommendation over high speed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Xiangmin Zhou , Dong Qin , Xiaolu Lu , Lei Chen , Yanchun Zhang

Recently, industrial recommendation services have been boosted by the continual upgrade of deep learning methods. However, they still face de-biasing challenges such as exposure bias and cold-start problem, where circulations of machine…

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