Cross-Domain Recommendation using Deep Learning / Rabia Khan
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Recommender systemsplayacrucialroleinfilteringvastinformation,buttraditionalsingle-
domain modelsstrugglewithdatasparsity,cold-startissues,andlimitedpersonalization.
These challengesareamplifiedasuserpreferencesoftenspanmultipledomains,which
single-domain recommendersfailtocapture.Toaddresstheseissues,thisthesisexplores
cross-domain recommendation using Multi-Layer Perceptron's (MLPs)to model non-linear
dependencies andaligndomain-specificfeatures,improvingpersonalizationandscalability.
However,MLPsoverlookthegraph-structurednatureofuser-iteminteractions,limiting
their abilitytomodelhigher-orderrelationships.Toovercomethis,aGraphConvolutional
Network-basedframeworkisproposedtolearnbothdomain-specificandsharedembed-
dings throughcollaborativegraphsignals.Additionally,tocapturefine-grainedpreferences,
another modelisproposedthatintegratesmetapath-basedgraphswithtransformer-based
reviewencoding.Thiscapturesopiniondynamicsfromreviewsandenhancesknowledge
transfer insparsesettings.
Finally,recognizingthelimitationsofratings-onlymodelsandbiasedsharedembeddings,
a sentiment-awarecontrastivelearningframeworkisintroduced.Bydynamicallyadapt-
ing userrepresentationsusingreviewsentiment,themodelachievesimprovedcross-domain
personalization, mitigatesnegativetransfer,andsupportsaccuraterecommendationsacross
heterogeneous domains like movies and books.

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