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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in recommendation systems. However, conventional graph-based recommenders, such as LightGCN, require maintaining embeddings of size $d$ for each node, resulting in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Yanping Zheng , Zhewei Wei , Frank de Hoog , Xu Chen , Hongteng Xu , Yuhang Ye , Jiadeng Huang

We showcase a novel solution to a recommendation system problem where we face a perpetual soft item cold start issue. Our system aims to recommend demanded products to prospective sellers for listing in Amazon stores. These products always…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Faizan Ahemad

This paper studies recommender systems with knowledge graphs, which can effectively address the problems of data sparsity and cold start. Recently, a variety of methods have been developed for this problem, which generally try to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Weiping Song , Zhijian Duan , Ziqing Yang , Hao Zhu , Ming Zhang , Jian Tang

Social recommendation based on social network has achieved great success in improving the performance of recommendation system. Since social network (user-user relations) and user-item interactions are both naturally represented as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Yiming Zhang , Lingfei Wu , Qi Shen , Yitong Pang , Zhihua Wei , Fangli Xu , Ethan Chang , Bo Long

In order to improve the accuracy of cross-platform advertisement recommendation, a graph neural network (GNN)- based advertisement recommendation method is analyzed. Through multi-dimensional modeling, user behavior data (e.g., click…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xiang Li , Xinyu Wang , Yifan Lin

To alleviate the cold start problem caused by collaborative filtering in recommender systems, knowledge graphs (KGs) are increasingly employed by many methods as auxiliary resources. However, existing work incorporated with KGs cannot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Xinze Lyu , Guangyao Li , Jiacheng Huang , Wei Hu

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) and their variants have achieved significant performances on various recommendation tasks. However, many existing GCN models tend to perform recursive aggregations among all related nodes, which can arise…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yue Xu , Hao Chen , Zengde Deng , Yuanchen Bei , Feiran Huang

Graph-based and sequential methods are two popular recommendation paradigms, each excelling in its domain but lacking the ability to leverage signals from the other. To address this, we propose a novel method that integrates both approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Yuwei Cao , Liangwei Yang , Zhiwei Liu , Yuqing Liu , Chen Wang , Yueqing Liang , Hao Peng , Philip S. Yu

Recommendation models utilizing Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance, as they can integrate both the node information and the topological structure of the user-item interaction graph. However, these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Xin Zhou , Donghui Lin , Yong Liu , Chunyan Miao

This paper introduces a simple and effective form of data augmentation for recommender systems. A paraphrase similarity model is applied to widely available textual data, such as reviews and product descriptions, yielding new semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Federico López , Martin Scholz , Jessica Yung , Marie Pellat , Michael Strube , Lucas Dixon

The cold-start problem remains a critical challenge in real-world recommender systems, as new items with limited interaction data or insufficient information are frequently introduced. Despite recent advances leveraging external knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wooseong Yang , Weizhi Zhang , Yuqing Liu , Yuwei Han , Yu Wang , Junhyun Lee , Philip S. Yu

Graph Convolution Network (GCN) has become new state-of-the-art for collaborative filtering. Nevertheless, the reasons of its effectiveness for recommendation are not well understood. Existing work that adapts GCN to recommendation lacks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Xiangnan He , Kuan Deng , Xiang Wang , Yan Li , Yongdong Zhang , Meng Wang

Recommendation systems, as widely implemented nowadays on various platforms, recommend relevant items to users based on their preferences. The classical methods which rely on user-item interaction matrices has limitations, especially in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Guangyi Liu , Quanming Yao , Yongqi Zhang , Lei Chen

The cold start problem, where new users or items have no interaction history, remains a critical challenge in recommender systems (RS). A common solution involves using Knowledge Graphs (KG) to train entity embeddings or Graph Neural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Jibril Frej , Marta Knezevic , Tanja Kaser

Matrix completion is a classic problem underlying recommender systems. It is traditionally tackled with matrix factorization. Recently, deep learning based methods, especially graph neural networks, have made impressive progress on this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Tieyun Qian , Yile Liang , Qing Li

To solve the information explosion problem and enhance user experience in various online applications, recommender systems have been developed to model users preferences. Although numerous efforts have been made toward more personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Qingyu Guo , Fuzhen Zhuang , Chuan Qin , Hengshu Zhu , Xing Xie , Hui Xiong , Qing He

With the tremendous success of Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs), they have been widely applied to recommender systems and have shown promising performance. However, most GCN-based methods rigorously stick to a common GCN learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Shaowen Peng , Kazunari Sugiyama , Tsunenori Mine

Complementary product recommendation, which aims to suggest items that are used together to enhance customer value, is a crucial yet challenging task in e-commerce. While existing graph neural network (GNN) approaches have made significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zekun Xu , Yudi Zhang

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

Dynamic recommendation, focusing on modeling user preference from historical interactions and providing recommendations on current time, plays a key role in many personalized services. Recent works show that pre-trained dynamic graph neural…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhen Tao , Yuehang Cao , Yang Fang , Yunhui Liu , Xiang Zhao , Tieke He