Personalized and Multi-View Representation for Federated Cold-Start Recommendation

[2608.27826] Personalized and Multi-View Representation for Federated Cold-Start Recommendation Skip to main content Search Submit Donate Log in Computer Science > Information Retrieval arXiv:2608.27826 (cs) [Submitted on 28 Aug 2026] Title: Personalized and Multi-View Representation for Federated Cold-Start Recommendation Authors: Jaehyung Lim , Wonbin Kweon , Woojoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Dongha Kim , Hwanjo Yu View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: Federated recommendation (FedRec) enables personalized modeling without centralizing users' interaction histories, but most existing methods assume a fixed item pool and thus overlook the practical cold-item setting where new items continuously arrive. Under the dual-sided constraint, where the server cannot access clients' interactions while clients cannot access the server's proprietary item attribute features, prior federated cold-start recommendation approaches suffer from three structural limitations: a lack of personalization, compositionality failure caused by forcing heterogeneous semantics into a single embedding space, and training- and communication-inefficiency arising from explicit alignment between separate collaborative and attribute representations. To address these challenges, we propose Personalized and Multi-view Representation for Federated Cold-Start Recommendation (PMFRec). PMFRec learns a personalized representation generator to produce user-specific item representations from attribute features, and introduces a global multi-view encoder with item-adaptive gating and an orthogonality objective to capture complementary semantic views while reducing cross-view redundancy. In addition, PMFRec fuses collaborative and attribute knowledge into a single exchanged item representation, eliminating the need for an explicit client-side regularizer and reducing communication overhead. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets show that PMFRec consistently outperforms strong baselines in cold-item recommendation and further improves user-level fairness, warm-scenario adaptability, and robustness under Local Differential Privacy (LDP). Subjects: Information Retrieval (cs.IR) ; Machine Learning (cs.LG) Cite as: arXiv:2608.27826 [cs.IR] (or arXiv:2608.27826v1 [cs.IR] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.27826 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Jaehyung Lim [ view email ] [v1] Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:48:50 UTC (1,932 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Additional Features Audio Summary Current browse context: cs.IR < prev | next > new | recent | 2026-08 Change to browse by: cs cs.LG References & Citations SciX Google Scholar Semantic Scholar export BibTeX citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer ( What is the Explorer? ) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers ( What is Connected Papers? ) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps ( What is Litmaps? ) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations ( What are Smart Citations? ) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv ( What is alphaXiv? ) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers ( What is CatalyzeX? ) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub ( What is DagsHub? ) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub ( What is GotitPub? ) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face ( What is Huggingface? ) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast ( What is ScienceCast? ) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate ( What is Replicate? ) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces ( What is Spaces? ) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI ( What is TXYZ.AI? ) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower ( What are Influence Flowers? ) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender ( What is CORE? ) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs . Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax ( What is MathJax? ) We gratefully acknowledge support from our major funders , member institutions , and all contributors. About · Help · Contact · Subscribe · Copyright · Privacy · Accessibility · Operational Status (opens in new tab)

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