embedding adaptation

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Jul 20, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Cold-Transformer: Embedding Adaptation for User Cold‑Start Recommendation

Cold‑Transformer tackles the user cold‑start problem by introducing an Embedding Adaption layer that refines sparse user embeddings using context‑aware fused behavior sequences and a label‑encoding scheme, preserving a dual‑tower design and achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on public and industrial datasets.