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Advanced recommender systems usually involve multiple domains (such as scenarios or categories) for various marketing strategies, and users interact with them to satisfy diverse demands. The goal of multi-domain recommendation (MDR) is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Zixuan Xu , Penghui Wei , Shaoguo Liu , Weimin Zhang , Liang Wang , Bo Zheng

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

For many recommender systems, the primary data source is a historical record of user clicks. The associated click matrix is often very sparse, as the number of users x products can be far larger than the number of clicks. Such sparsity is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Julien Monteil , Volodymyr Vaskovych , Wentao Lu , Anirban Majumder , Anton van den Hengel

Sequential recommendation (SRS) has become the technical foundation in many applications recently, which aims to recommend the next item based on the user's historical interactions. However, sequential recommendation often faces the problem…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Qidong Liu , Fan Yan , Xiangyu Zhao , Zhaocheng Du , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Feng Tian

Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in recommender systems, whose objective is to provide personalized item suggestions to potential users based on their purchase or browsing history. However, personalized recommendations require…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Osama Alshareet , A. Ben Hamza

Cold-start problem, which arises upon the new users arrival, is one of the fundamental problems in today's recommender approaches. Moreover, in some domains as TV or multime-dia-items take long time to experience by users, thus users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Juraj Visnovsky , Ondrej Kassak , Michal Kompan , Maria Bielikova

Recommender systems are frequently challenged by the data sparsity problem. One approach to mitigate this issue is through cross-domain recommendation techniques. In a cross-domain context, sharing knowledge between domains can enhance the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Zixuan Yi , Iadh Ounis , Craig Macdonald

Many sequential recommender systems suffer from the cold start problem, where items with few or no interactions cannot be effectively used by the model due to the absence of a trained embedding. Content-based approaches, which leverage item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Anton Pembek , Artem Fatkulin , Anton Klenitskiy , Alexey Vasilev

The burgeoning presence of multimodal content-sharing platforms propels the development of personalized recommender systems. Previous works usually suffer from data sparsity and cold-start problems, and may fail to adequately explore…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xu Guo , Tong Zhang , Fuyun Wang , Xudong Wang , Xiaoya Zhang , Xin Liu , Zhen Cui

Collaborative filtering is a critical technique in recommender systems. It has been increasingly viewed as a conditional generative task for user feedback data, where newly developed diffusion model shows great potential. However, existing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Yunqin Zhu , Chao Wang , Qi Zhang , Hui Xiong

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is an essential task in industrial applications such as video recommendation. Recently, deep learning models have been proposed to learn the representation of users' overall interests, while ignoring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Shu-Ting Shi , Wenhao Zheng , Jun Tang , Qing-Guo Chen , Yao Hu , Jianke Zhu , Ming Li

With the outbreak of today's streaming data, the sequential recommendation is a promising solution to achieve time-aware personalized modeling. It aims to infer the next interacted item of a given user based on the historical item sequence.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Guanyu Lin , Chen Gao , Yinfeng Li , Yu Zheng , Zhiheng Li , Depeng Jin , Dong Li , Jianye Hao , Yong Li

Recently, diffusion-based recommendation methods have achieved impressive results. However, existing approaches predominantly treat each user's historical interactions as independent training samples, overlooking the potential of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Xuan Zhang , Xiang Deng , Hongxing Yuan , Chunyu Wei , Yushun Fan

Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (CDSR) leverages user behaviors across multiple domains to mitigate data sparsity and cold-start challenges in Single-Domain Sequential Recommendation. Existing methods primarily rely on shared users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Xuying Ning , Wujiang Xu , Tianxin Wei , Xiaolei Liu

Recommender systems struggle to provide accurate suggestions to new users with limited interaction history, a challenge known as the cold-user problem. This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach using Double and Dueling Deep…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Minda Zhao

Multimodal recommender systems leverage diverse data sources, such as user interactions, content features, and contextual information, to address challenges like cold-start and data sparsity. However, existing methods often suffer from one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Adamya Shyam , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Bharti Rana , Vikas Kumar

Recommending cold-start items is a long-standing and fundamental challenge in recommender systems. Without any historical interaction on cold-start items, CF scheme fails to use collaborative signals to infer user preference on these items.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Yinwei Wei , Xiang Wang , Qi Li , Liqiang Nie , Yan Li , Xuanping Li , Tat-Seng Chua

Two-tower models are widely adopted in the industrial-scale matching stage across a broad range of application domains, such as content recommendations, advertisement systems, and search engines. This model efficiently handles large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yihan Wang , Fei Xiong , Zhexin Han , Qi Song , Kaiqiao Zhan , Ben Wang

Nowadays, many recommender systems encompass various domains to cater to users' diverse needs, leading to user behaviors transitioning across different domains. In fact, user behaviors across different domains reveal changes in preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Changshuo Zhang , Teng Shi , Xiao Zhang , Qi Liu , Ruobing Xie , Jun Xu , Ji-Rong Wen

Social recommendation leverages social network to complement user-item interaction data for recommendation task, aiming to mitigate the data sparsity issue in recommender systems. However, existing social recommendation methods encounter…

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