Knowledge Transfer via Pre-training for Recommendation: A Review and Prospect

Recommender systems aim to provide item recommendations for users and are usually faced with data sparsity problems (e.g., cold start) in real-world scenarios. Recently pre-trained models have shown their effectiveness in knowledge transfer between domains and tasks, which can potentially alleviate...

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Main Authors: Zheni Zeng, Chaojun Xiao, Yuan Yao, Ruobing Xie, Zhiyuan Liu, Fen Lin, Leyu Lin, Maosong Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Big Data
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdata.2021.602071/full