Zero-Shot Heterogeneous Transfer Learning from Recommender Systems to Cold-Start Search Retrieval

no code implementations • 7 Aug 2020 • Tao Wu, Ellie Ka-In Chio, Heng-Tze Cheng, Yu Du, Steffen Rendle, Dima Kuzmin, Ritesh Agarwal, Li Zhang, John Anderson, Sarvjeet Singh, Tushar Chandra, Ed H. Chi, Wen Li, Ankit Kumar, Xiang Ma, Alex Soares, Nitin Jindal, Pei Cao

In light of these problems, we observed that most online content platforms have both a search and a recommender system that, while having heterogeneous input spaces, can be connected through their common output item space and a shared semantic representation.

Information Retrieval Recommendation Systems +2