Causal representation learning for out-of-distribution recommendation

W Wang, X Lin, F Feng, X He, M Lin… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Modern recommender systems learn user representations from historical interactions, which
suffer from the problem of user feature shifts, such as an income increase. Historical …

User Cold Start Problem in Recommendation Systems: A Systematic Review

H Yuan, AA Hernandez - IEEE Access, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The recommendation system makes recommendations based on the preferences of the
users. These user preferences usually come from the user's basic information, item rating …

Equivariant Learning for Out-of-Distribution Cold-start Recommendation

W Wang, X Lin, L Wang, F Feng, Y Wei… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems rely on user-item interactions to learn Collaborative Filtering (CF)
signals and easily under-recommend the cold-start items without historical interactions. To …

Hyperparameter learning for deep learning-based recommender systems

D Wu, B Sun, M Shang - IEEE Transactions on Services …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Deep learning (DL)-based recommender system (RS), particularly for its advances in the
recent five years, has been startling. It reshapes the architectures of traditional RSs by lifting …

A Preference Learning Decoupling Framework for User Cold-Start Recommendation

C Wang, Y Zhu, A Sun, Z Wang, K Wang - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The issue of user cold-start poses a long-standing challenge to recommendation systems,
due to the scarce interactions of new users. Recently, meta-learning based studies treat …

Adasparse: Learning adaptively sparse structures for multi-domain click-through rate prediction

X Yang, X Peng, P Wei, S Liu, L Wang… - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Click-through rate (CTR) prediction is a fundamental technique in recommendation and
advertising systems. Recent studies have proved that learning a unified model to serve …

Causal disentangled recommendation against user preference shifts

W Wang, X Lin, L Wang, F Feng, Y Ma… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems easily face the issue of user preference shifts. User representations
will become out-of-date and lead to inappropriate recommendations if user preference has …

Efficient meta reinforcement learning for preference-based fast adaptation

Z Ren, A Liu, Y Liang, J Peng… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Learning new task-specific skills from a few trials is a fundamental challenge for artificial
intelligence. Meta reinforcement learning (meta-RL) tackles this problem by learning …

PNMTA: A pretrained network modulation and task adaptation approach for user cold-start recommendation

H Pang, F Giunchiglia, X Li, R Guan… - Proceedings of the ACM …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
User cold-start recommendation is a serious problem that limits the performance of
recommender systems (RSs). Recent studies have focused on treating this issue as a few …

Ada-ranker: A data distribution adaptive ranking paradigm for sequential recommendation

X Fan, J Lian, WX Zhao, Z Liu, C Li, X **e - Proceedings of the 45th …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A large-scale recommender system usually consists of recall and ranking modules. The goal
of ranking modules (aka rankers) is to elaborately discriminate users' preference on item …