there is nothing quite so helpless in this world as a baby broiler chick which has been snatched from the warmth of its surrogated mother, carted umpteen kilometers in a box dumped unceremoniously in a broiler shed and then told to get on with the job of making the boss a wealthy man. yet within the space of 14 days, that same chick, under optimum conditions, will have increased its day-old bod...

To make rating predictions, one of the most commonly used approach in recommender systems is the latent factor model. Despite its popularity, one of its drawbacks is that it only makes use of numeric ratings but ignores other resources, such as review texts. McAuley et al. [1] proposed a general framework to employ both numeric ratings and review texts, and showed their model can outperform the...

Résumé. Des travaux récents (Pilaszy et al., 2009) suggèrent que les métadonnées sont quasiment inutiles pour les systèmes de recommandation, y compris en situation de cold-start : les données de logs de notation sont beaucoup plus informatives. Nous étudions, sur une base de référence de logs d'usages pour la recommandation automatique de DVD (Netflix), les performances de systèmes de recomman...

News recommendation has been a must-have service for most mobile device users to know what has happened in the world. In this paper, we focus on recommending latest news articles to new users, which consists of the new user coldstart challenge and the new item (i.e., news article) coldstart challenge, and is thus termed as dual cold-start recommendation (DCSR). As a response, we propose a solut...

Collaborative filtering suffers from the problems of data sparsity and cold start, which dramatically degrade recommendation performance. To help resolve these issues, we propose TrustSVD, a trust-based matrix factorization technique. By analyzing the social trust data from four real-world data sets, we conclude that not only the explicit but also the implicit influence of both ratings and trus...

Recommendation algorithms and multi-class classifiers can support users of social bookmarking systems in assigning tags to their bookmarks. Content based recommenders are the usual approach for facing the cold start problem, i. e., when a bookmark is uploaded for the first time and no information from other users can be exploited. In this paper, we evaluate several recommendation algorithms in ...

4 Implementation remarks 12 4.1 Calling sequence in direct communication . . . . . . . . 12 4.2 Calling sequence in reverse communication . . . . . . . . 13 4.3 More on some arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.4 More on some output modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.5 Cold start and warm restart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.6 Usage for very large scale problems . . ...

Recommender systems suffer from the new user problem, i.e., the difficulty to make accurate predictions for users that have rated only few items. Moreover, they usually compute recommendations for items just in one domain, such as movies, music, or books. In this paper we deal with such a cold-start situation exploiting cross-domain recommendation techniques, i.e., we suggest items to a user in...

Modern recommender systems model people and items by discovering or ‘teasing apart’ the underlying dimensions that encode the properties of items and users’ preferences toward them. Critically, such dimensions are uncovered based on user feedback, often in implicit form (such as purchase histories, browsing logs, etc.); in addition, some recommender systems make use of side information, such as...