Cross-Domain Recommendation: Challenges, Progress, and Prospects

Cross-Domain Recommendation: Challenges, Progress, and Prospects

Feng Zhu, Yan Wang, Chaochao Chen, Jun Zhou, Longfei Li, Guanfeng Liu

Proceedings of the Thirtieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Survey Track. Pages 4721-4728. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2021/639

To address the long-standing data sparsity problem in recommender systems (RSs), cross-domain recommendation (CDR) has been proposed to leverage the relatively richer information from a richer domain to improve the recommendation performance in a sparser domain. Although CDR has been extensively studied in recent years, there is a lack of a systematic review of the existing CDR approaches. To fill this gap, in this paper, we provide a comprehensive review of existing CDR approaches, including challenges, research progress, and prospects. Specifically, we first summarize existing CDR approaches into four types, including single-target CDR, single-target multi-domain recommendation (MDR), dual-target CDR, and multi-target CDR. We then present the definitions and challenges of these CDR approaches. Next, we propose a full-view categorization and new taxonomies on these approaches and report their research progress in detail. In the end, we share several promising prospects in CDR.
Keywords:
Knowledge representation and reasoning: General
Multidisciplinary topics and applications: General