Adaptive Candidate Retrieval with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Construction for Cold-Start Recommendation
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| author | Yang, Wooseong Zhang, Weizhi Liu, Yuqing Han, Yuwei Wang, Yu Lee, Junhyun Yu, Philip S. |
| author_facet | Yang, Wooseong Zhang, Weizhi Liu, Yuqing Han, Yuwei Wang, Yu Lee, Junhyun Yu, Philip S. |
| contents | The cold-start problem remains a critical challenge in real-world recommender systems, as new items with limited interaction data or insufficient information are frequently introduced. Despite recent advances leveraging external knowledge such as knowledge graphs (KGs) and large language models (LLMs), recommender systems still face challenges in practical environments. Static KGs are expensive to construct and quickly become outdated, while LLM-based methods depend on pre-filtered candidate lists due to limited context windows. To address these limitations, we propose ColdRAG, a retrieval-augmented framework that dynamically constructs a knowledge graph from raw metadata, extracts entities and relations to construct an updatable structure, and introduces LLM-guided multi-hop reasoning at inference time to retrieve and rank candidates without relying on pre-filtered lists. Experiments across multiple benchmarks show that ColdRAG consistently outperforms strong seven baselines. |
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| spellingShingle | Adaptive Candidate Retrieval with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Construction for Cold-Start Recommendation Yang, Wooseong Zhang, Weizhi Liu, Yuqing Han, Yuwei Wang, Yu Lee, Junhyun Yu, Philip S. Information Retrieval 68T05 68T05 The cold-start problem remains a critical challenge in real-world recommender systems, as new items with limited interaction data or insufficient information are frequently introduced. Despite recent advances leveraging external knowledge such as knowledge graphs (KGs) and large language models (LLMs), recommender systems still face challenges in practical environments. Static KGs are expensive to construct and quickly become outdated, while LLM-based methods depend on pre-filtered candidate lists due to limited context windows. To address these limitations, we propose ColdRAG, a retrieval-augmented framework that dynamically constructs a knowledge graph from raw metadata, extracts entities and relations to construct an updatable structure, and introduces LLM-guided multi-hop reasoning at inference time to retrieve and rank candidates without relying on pre-filtered lists. Experiments across multiple benchmarks show that ColdRAG consistently outperforms strong seven baselines. |
| title | Adaptive Candidate Retrieval with Dynamic Knowledge Graph Construction for Cold-Start Recommendation |
| topic | Information Retrieval 68T05 68T05 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20773 |