Sparse Contrastive Learning for Content-Based Cold Item Recommendation.

@inproceedings{meehan-2026-sparse, author = {Gregor Meehan and Ziquan Fang and Baihua Zheng and Johan Pauwels and Gregor Meehan and Ziquan Fang and Baihua Zheng and Johan Pauwels}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{Sparse Contrastive Learning for Content-Based Cold Item Recommendation}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {3994--3999}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809975}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809975} }