Attention Model for News Recommendation: Cold Start Problem

Typical SVD is less effective when data is not enough. How to leverage attention model to solve the cold start problem? Although SVD provides a satisfactory solution to recommendation system, it is less effective when the new items did not accumulate enough data. In this article, I will show you how to leverage the attention mechanism to solve the cold start problem in recommendation system. Attention Mechanism has a long history of applications and recently introduced to solve problems in NLP.