arXiv Machine Learning By Anh Truong, John Trenkle, Yuanbo Chen, Honghong Zhao, Abdullah Alchihabi, Effy Fang, Michael Tamir

Bridging the Semantic-Collaborative Gap: An Asymmetric Graph Architecture for Cold-Start Item Recommendation

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arXiv:2606. 06225v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Collaborative filtering and graph-based recommendation models are highly effective because they leverage observed user interactions, but this dependence creates a fundamental cold-start challenge when newly added content has no interaction history.

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