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The challenge of cold start has long been a persistent issue in recommender systems. However, Cross-domain Recommendation (CDR) provides a promising solution by utilizing the abundant information available in the auxiliary source domain to facilitate cold-start recommendations for the target domain. Many existing popular CDR methods only use overlapping user data but ignore non-overlapping user data when training the model to establish a mapping function, which reduces the model’s generalization ability. Furthermore, these CDR methods often directly learn the target embedding during training, because the target embedding itself may be unreasonable, resulting in an unreasonable transformed embedding, exacerbating the difficulty of model generalization. To address these issues, we propose a novel framework named Domain-Invariant Task Optimization for Cross-domain Recommendation (DITOCDR). To effectively utilize non-overlapping user information, we employ source and target domain autoencoders to learn overlapping and non-overlapping user embeddings and extract domain-invariant factors. Additionally, we use a task-optimized strategy for target embedding learning to optimize the embedding and implicitly transform the source domain user embedding to the target feature space. We evaluate our proposed DITOCDR on three real-world datasets collected by Amazon, and the experimental results demonstrate its excellent performance and effectiveness.
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Liu, D., Hao, Q., Xiao, Y., Zheng, W., Wang, J. (2024). Domain-Invariant Task Optimization for Cross-domain Recommendation. In: Luo, B., Cheng, L., Wu, ZG., Li, H., Li, C. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14449. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8067-3_36
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