Aligning distillation for cold-start item recommendation

F Huang, Z Wang, X Huang, Y Qian, Z Li… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommending cold items in recommendation systems is a longstanding challenge due to
the inherent differences between warm items, which are recommended based on user …

GS-RS: A generative approach for alleviating cold start and filter bubbles in recommender systems

Y Xu, E Wang, Y Yang, H **ong - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recommender Systems (RSs) typically face the cold-start problem and the filter-bubble
problem when users suffer the familiar, repeated, and even predictable recommendations …

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 …

Fine Tuning Out-of-Vocabulary Item Recommendation with User Sequence Imagination

R Liu, H Chen, Y Bei, Q Shen… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Recommending out-of-vocabulary (OOV) items is a challenging problem since the in-
vocabulary (IV) items have well-trained behavioral embeddings but the OOV items only have …

Learning hierarchical preferences for recommendation with mixture intention neural stochastic processes

H Liu, L **g, J Yu, MK Ng - IEEE Transactions on Knowledge …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
User preferences behind users' decision-making processes are highly diverse and may
range from lower-level concepts with more specific intentions and higher-level concepts with …

MARec: Metadata Alignment for cold-start Recommendation

J Monteil, V Vaskovych, W Lu, A Majumder… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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× products can be far …

Cold-Start Recommendation towards the Era of Large Language Models (LLMs): A Comprehensive Survey and Roadmap

W Zhang, Y Bei, L Yang, HP Zou, P Zhou, A Liu… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2025 - arxiv.org
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 …

3MN: Three Meta Networks for Multi-Scenario and Multi-Task Learning in Online Advertising Recommender Systems

Y Zhang, H Hua, H Guo, S Wang, C Zhong… - Proceedings of the 32nd …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Recommender systems are widely applied on web. For example, online advertising systems
rely on recommender systems to accurately estimate the value of display opportunities …

A Self-Adaptive Fairness Constraint Framework for Industrial Recommender System

Z Liu, X Xu, J Yu, H Xu, L Hu, H Li, K Gai - Proceedings of the 33rd ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Achieving fairness among different individuals or groups is an essential task for industrial
recommender systems. Due to the group's personalized selection tendencies and the non …

Dcbt: A simple but effective way for unified warm and cold recommendation

J Yang, L Zhang, Y He, K Ding, Z Huan… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
The cold-start problem of conversion rate prediction is a common challenge in online
advertising systems. To alleviate this problem, a large number of methods either use content …