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20192025
most citedQuantitative analysis of Matthew effect and sparsity problem of recommender systems

32 citations · 124 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.IR2025

GreyShot: Zeroshot and Privacy-preserving Recommender System by GM(1,1) Model

Hao Wang

Every recommendation engineer needs to face the cold start problem when building his system. During the past decades, most scientists adopted transfer learning and meta learning to…

cs.IR2025

TriMat: Context-aware Recommendation by Tri-Matrix Factorization

Hao Wang

Search engine is the symbolic technology of Web 2.0, and many people used to believe recommender systems is the new frontier of Web 3.0. In the past 10 years, with the advent of Ti…

cs.IR2025

Emotion-based Recommender System

Hao Wang

Recommender system is one of the most critical technologies for large internet companies such as Amazon and TikTok. Although millions of users use recommender systems globally ever…

cs.LG2024

A Click-Through Rate Prediction Method Based on Cross-Importance of Multi-Order Features

Hao Wang, Nao Li

Most current click-through rate prediction(CTR)models create explicit or implicit high-order feature crosses through Hadamard product or inner product, with little attention to the…

cs.IR2024

Mitigating Position Bias with Regularization for Recommender Systems

Hao Wang

Fairness is a popular research topic in recent years. A research topic closely related to fairness is bias and debiasing. Among different types of bias problems, position bias is o…

cs.IR2023

Enhancing Recommender System Performance by Histogram Equalization

Hao Wang

Recommender system has been researched for decades with millions of different versions of algorithms created in the industry. In spite of the huge amount of work spent on the field…

cs.IR2023

LogitMat : Zeroshot Learning Algorithm for Recommender Systems without Transfer Learning or Pretrained Models

Hao Wang

Recommender system is adored in the internet industry as one of the most profitable technologies. Unlike other sectors such as fraud detection in the Fintech industry, recommender…

cs.IR2023

Analysis and Visualization of the Parameter Space of Matrix Factorization-based Recommender Systems

Hao Wang

Recommender system is the most successful commercial technology in the past decade. Technical mammoth such as Temu, TikTok and Amazon utilize the technology to generate enormous re…

cs.IR2023

PowerMat: context-aware recommender system without user item rating values that solves the cold-start problem

Hao Wang

Recommender systems serves as an important technical asset in many modern companies. With the increasing demand for higher precision of the technology, more and more research and i…

cs.IR2023★ 2 cited

Kernel-CF: Collaborative filtering done right with social network analysis and kernel smoothing

Hao Wang

Collaborative filtering is the simplest but oldest machine learning algorithm in the field of recommender systems. In spite of its long history, it remains a discussion topic in re…

cs.IR2023

Fair Recommendation by Geometric Interpretation and Analysis of Matrix Factorization

Hao Wang

Matrix factorization-based recommender system is in effect an angle preserving dimensionality reduction technique. Since the frequency of items follows power-law distribution, most…

cs.IR2022★ 10 cited

PoissonMat: Remodeling Matrix Factorization using Poisson Distribution and Solving the Cold Start Problem without Input Data

Hao Wang

Matrix Factorization is one of the most successful recommender system techniques over the past decade. However, the classic probabilistic theory framework for matrix factorization…

cs.IR2022★ 3 cited

Pareto Pairwise Ranking for Fairness Enhancement of Recommender Systems

Hao Wang

Learning to rank is an effective recommendation approach since its introduction around 2010. Famous algorithms such as Bayesian Personalized Ranking and Collaborative Less is More…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

DotMat: Solving Cold-start Problem and Alleviating Sparsity Problem for Recommender Systems

Hao Wang

Cold-start and sparsity problem are two key intrinsic problems to recommender systems. During the past two decades, researchers and industrial practitioners have spent considerable…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Theoretically Accurate Regularization Technique for Matrix Factorization based Recommender Systems

Hao Wang

Regularization is a popular technique to solve the overfitting problem of machine learning algorithms. Most regularization technique relies on parameter selection of the regulariza…

cs.IR2022★ 8 cited

KL-Mat : Fair Recommender System via Information Geometry

Hao Wang

Recommender system has intrinsic problems such as sparsity and fairness. Although it has been widely adopted for the past decades, research on fairness of recommendation algorithms…

cs.IR2022★ 7 cited

RankMat : Matrix Factorization with Calibrated Distributed Embedding and Fairness Enhancement

Hao Wang

Matrix Factorization is a widely adopted technique in the field of recommender system. Matrix Factorization techniques range from SVD, LDA, pLSA, SVD++, MatRec, Zipf Matrix Factori…

cs.IR2022★ 10 cited

MovieMat: Context-aware Movie Recommendation with Matrix Factorization by Matrix Fitting

Hao Wang

Movie Recommender System is widely applied in commercial environments such as NetFlix and Tubi. Classic recommender models utilize technologies such as collaborative filtering, lea…

cs.IR2021★ 9 cited

MatMat: Matrix Factorization by Matrix Fitting

Hao Wang

Matrix factorization is a widely adopted recommender system technique that fits scalar rating values by dot products of user feature vectors and item feature vectors. However, the…

cs.IR2021★ 22 cited

ZeroMat: Solving Cold-start Problem of Recommender System with No Input Data

Hao Wang

Recommender system is an applicable technique in most E-commerce commercial product technical designs. However, nearly all recommender system faces a challenge called the cold-star…

cs.IR2021★ 1 cited

Zipf Matrix Factorization : Matrix Factorization with Matthew Effect Reduction

Hao Wang

Recommender system recommends interesting items to users based on users' past information history. Researchers have been paying attention to improvement of algorithmic performance…

cs.IR2020★ 18 cited

MatRec: Matrix Factorization for Highly Skewed Dataset

Hao Wang, Bing Ruan

Recommender systems is one of the most successful AI technologies applied in the internet cooperations. Popular internet products such as TikTok, Amazon, and YouTube have all integ…

cs.IR2019★ 32 cited

Quantitative analysis of Matthew effect and sparsity problem of recommender systems

Hao Wang, Zonghu Wang, Weishi Zhang

Recommender systems have received great commercial success. Recommendation has been used widely in areas such as e-commerce, online music FM, online news portal, etc. However, seve…