Warming Up Cold-Start CTR Prediction by Learning Item-Specific Feature Interactions

Y Wang, H Piao, D Dong, Q Yao, J Zhou - Proceedings of the 30th ACM …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In recommendation systems, new items are continuously introduced, initially lacking
interaction records but gradually accumulating them over time. Accurately predicting the …

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 …

Graph attention networks with adaptive neighbor graph aggregation for cold-start recommendation

Q Hu, L Tan, D Gong, Y Li, W Bu - Journal of Intelligent Information …, 2024 - Springer
The cold-start problem is a long-standing problem in recommender systems, ie, lack of
historical interaction information hinders effective recommendations for new users and …

C2lRec: Causal Contrastive Learning for User Cold-start Recommendation with Social Variable

X Xu, H Dong, H Xiang, X Hu, X Li, X Xia… - ACM Transactions on …, 2025 - dl.acm.org
Embedding-based recommender systems rely on historical interactions to model users,
which poses challenges for recommending to new users, known as the user cold-start …

Knowledge-Aware Parsimony Learning: A Perspective from Relational Graphs

Q Yao, Y Zhang, Y Wang, N Yin, J Kwok… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
The scaling law, which involves the brute-force expansion of training datasets and learnable
parameters, has become a prevalent strategy for developing more robust learning models …

Enhancing Fairness in Meta-learned User Modeling via Adaptive Sampling

Z Zhang, Q Liu, Z Hu, Y Zhan, Z Huang, W Gao… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Meta-learning has been widely employed to tackle the cold-start problem in user modeling.
Similar to a guidebook for a new traveler, meta-learning significantly affects decision-making …

Dual Enhanced Meta-learning with Adaptive Task Scheduler for Cold-Start Recommendation

D He, J Cui, X Wang, G Song… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recommendation systems typically rely on users' historical behavior to infer their
preferences. However, when new entries emerge, the system cannot make accurate …

Counterfactual contextual bandit for recommendation under delayed feedback

R Cai, R Lu, W Chen, Z Hao - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
The recommendation system has far-reaching significance and great practical value, which
alleviates people's troubles about choosing from a huge amount of information. The existing …

[HTML][HTML] IPSRM: An intent perceived sequential recommendation model

C Wang, M Wang, X Wang, Y Tan - … of King Saud University-Computer and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Objectives: Sequential recommendation aims to recommend items that are relevant to users'
interests based on their existing interaction sequences. Current models lack in capturing …

Beyond scaleup: Knowledge‐aware parsimony learning from deep networks

Q Yao, Y Zhang, Y Wang, N Yin, J Kwok, Q Yang - 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The brute‐force scaleup of training datasets, learnable parameters and computation power,
has become a prevalent strategy for developing more robust learning models. However, due …