Maximum Impact with Fewer Features: Efficient Feature Selection for Cold-Start Recommenders through Collaborative Importance Weighting
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| author | Sukhorukov, Nikita Gusak, Danil Frolov, Evgeny |
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| contents | Cold-start challenges in recommender systems necessitate leveraging auxiliary features beyond user-item interactions. However, the presence of irrelevant or noisy features can degrade predictive performance, whereas an excessive number of features increases computational demands, leading to higher memory consumption and prolonged training times.
To address this, we propose a feature selection strategy that prioritizes the user behavioral information. Our method enhances the feature representation by incorporating correlations from collaborative behavior data using a hybrid matrix factorization technique and then ranks features using a mechanism based on the maximum volume algorithm. This approach identifies the most influential features, striking a balance between recommendation accuracy and computational efficiency. We conduct an extensive evaluation across various datasets and hybrid recommendation models, demonstrating that our method excels in cold-start scenarios by selecting minimal yet highly effective feature subsets. Even under strict feature reduction, our approach surpasses existing feature selection techniques while maintaining superior efficiency. |
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| spellingShingle | Maximum Impact with Fewer Features: Efficient Feature Selection for Cold-Start Recommenders through Collaborative Importance Weighting Sukhorukov, Nikita Gusak, Danil Frolov, Evgeny Information Retrieval Machine Learning Cold-start challenges in recommender systems necessitate leveraging auxiliary features beyond user-item interactions. However, the presence of irrelevant or noisy features can degrade predictive performance, whereas an excessive number of features increases computational demands, leading to higher memory consumption and prolonged training times. To address this, we propose a feature selection strategy that prioritizes the user behavioral information. Our method enhances the feature representation by incorporating correlations from collaborative behavior data using a hybrid matrix factorization technique and then ranks features using a mechanism based on the maximum volume algorithm. This approach identifies the most influential features, striking a balance between recommendation accuracy and computational efficiency. We conduct an extensive evaluation across various datasets and hybrid recommendation models, demonstrating that our method excels in cold-start scenarios by selecting minimal yet highly effective feature subsets. Even under strict feature reduction, our approach surpasses existing feature selection techniques while maintaining superior efficiency. |
| title | Maximum Impact with Fewer Features: Efficient Feature Selection for Cold-Start Recommenders through Collaborative Importance Weighting |
| topic | Information Retrieval Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06455 |