Title
Wasserstein Collaborative Filtering for Item Cold-start Recommendation
Abstract
Item cold-start recommendation, which predicts user preference on new items that have no user interaction records, is an important problem in recommender systems. In this paper, we model the disparity between user preferences on warm items (those having interaction record) and that on cold-start items using the Wasserstein distance. On this basis, we propose Wasserstein Collaborative Filtering (WCF), which predicts user preference on cold-start items by minimizing the Wasserstein distance under user embedding constraint. Our analysis shows that minimizing the Wasserstein distance ensures that users sharing similar tastes on warm items also have similar preferences on cold-start items. Experimental results show that WCF consistently outperform the state-of-the-art methods in recommendation quality, usually by a large margin.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3340631.3394870
UMAP '20: 28th ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization Genoa Italy July, 2020
DocType
ISBN
Citations 
Conference
978-1-4503-6861-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yitong Meng110.69
Pengfei Chen203.38
Weiwen Liu300.34
Huanhuan Wu4323.93
James Cheng52044101.89