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The item cold-start problem is critical for online recommendation systems, as the success of this phase determines whether high-quality new items can transition to popular ones, receive essential feedback to inspire creators, and thus lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Yu-Ting Lan , Yang Huo , Yi Shen , Xiao Yang , Zuotao Liu

In recommender systems, cold-start issues are situations where no previous events, e.g. ratings, are known for certain users or items. In this paper, we focus on the item cold-start problem. Both content information (e.g. item attributes)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Yu Zhu , Jinhao Lin , Shibi He , Beidou Wang , Ziyu Guan , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai

Recommending cold items remains a significant challenge in billion-scale online recommendation systems. While warm items benefit from historical user behaviors, cold items rely solely on content features, limiting their recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Feiran Huang , Yuanchen Bei , Zhenghang Yang , Junyi Jiang , Hao Chen , Qijie Shen , Senzhang Wang , Fakhri Karray , Philip S. Yu

Cold-start problem is one of the long-standing challenges in recommender systems, focusing on accurately modeling new or interaction-limited users or items to provide better recommendations. Due to the diversification of internet platforms…

The growth of recommender systems (RecSys) is driven by digitization and the need for personalized content in areas such as e-commerce and video streaming. The content in these systems often changes rapidly and therefore they constantly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Shiyu Wang , Hao Ding , Yupeng Gu , Sergul Aydore , Kousha Kalantari , Branislav Kveton

Cold-start recommendation is one of the major challenges faced by recommender systems (RS). Herein, we focus on the user cold-start problem. Recently, methods utilizing side information or meta-learning have been used to model cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Xiangyu Zhang , Zongqiang Kuang , Zehao Zhang , Fan Huang , Xianfeng Tan

We present a novel dynamic recommendation model that focuses on users who have interactions in the past but turn relatively inactive recently. Making effective recommendations to these time-sensitive cold-start users is critical to maintain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Krishna Prasad Neupane , Ervine Zheng , Yu Kong , Qi 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

Cold-start item recommendation is a long-standing challenge in recommendation systems. A common remedy is to use a content-based approach, but rich information from raw contents in various forms has not been fully utilized. In this paper,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Jooeun Kim , Jinri Kim , Kwangeun Yeo , Eungi Kim , Kyoung-Woon On , Jonghwan Mun , Joonseok Lee

Generative recommendation (GR) has shown strong potential for sequential recommendation in an end-to-end generation paradigm. However, existing GR models suffer from severe cold-start collapse: their recommendation accuracy on cold-start…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Chenglei Shen , Teng Shi , Weijie Yu , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

This work explores the ability of collective matrix factorization models in recommender systems to make predictions about users and items for which there is side information available but no feedback or interactions data, and proposes a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-03-17 David Cortes

A major challenge in collaborative filtering methods is how to produce recommendations for cold items (items with no ratings), or integrate cold item into an existing catalog. Over the years, a variety of hybrid recommendation models have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Oren Barkan , Roy Hirsch , Ori Katz , Avi Caciularu , Jonathan Weill , Noam Koenigstein

The reasoning and generalization capabilities of LLMs can help us better understand user preferences and item characteristics, offering exciting prospects to enhance recommendation systems. Though effective while user-item interactions are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jianling Wang , Haokai Lu , James Caverlee , Ed Chi , Minmin Chen

Recommender systems have become fundamental building blocks of modern online products and services, and have a substantial impact on user experience. In the past few years, deep learning methods have attracted a lot of research, and are now…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Davide Buffelli , Ashish Gupta , Agnieszka Strzalka , Vassilis Plachouras

Collaborative filtering (CF) recommender systems struggle with making predictions on unseen, or 'cold', items. Systems designed to address this challenge are often trained with supervision from warm CF models in order to leverage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Gregor Meehan , Johan Pauwels

For tackling the well known cold-start user problem in model-based recommender systems, one approach is to recommend a few items to a cold-start user and use the feedback to learn a profile. The learned profile can then be used to make good…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Sampoorna Biswas , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Senjuti Basu Ray

As one of major challenges, cold-start problem plagues nearly all recommender systems. In particular, new items will be overlooked, impeding the development of new products online. Given limited resources, how to utilize the knowledge of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Jin-Hu Liu , Tao Zhou , Zi-Ke Zhang , Zimo Yang , Chuang Liu , Wei-Min Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential for improving recommendation systems through their inherent reasoning capabilities and extensive knowledge base. Yet, existing studies predominantly address warm-start scenarios…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Shijun Li , Yu Wang , Jin Wang , Ying Li , Joydeep Ghosh , Anne Cocos

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

In modern recommender systems, experimental settings typically include filtering out cold users and items based on a minimum interaction threshold. However, these thresholds are often chosen arbitrarily and vary widely across studies,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Danil Gusak , Nikita Sukhorukov , Evgeny Frolov
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