YuanchenBei/Awesome-Cold-Start-Recommendation

[Up-to-date] A curated list of resources on cold-start recommendations.

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This resource provides a comprehensive list of research papers and toolkits focused on 'cold-start recommendation'. This is a common challenge in recommendation systems where it's difficult to suggest relevant items to new users or suggest new items to existing users due to a lack of historical interaction data. It offers a structured overview of techniques and research trends, categorized by different aspects like content features, graph relations, and the use of Large Language Models. Anyone building or researching recommendation systems, from e-commerce product managers to streaming service data scientists, would find this useful for understanding and addressing this specific problem.

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Use this if you are a researcher or practitioner in recommendation systems looking for the latest academic papers, methods, and open-source tools to tackle the 'cold-start' problem.

Not ideal if you are a casual user looking for recommendations for products or content, as this is a resource for building recommendation systems, not using them.

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