In this task, you are given the abstract of a research paper. Your task is to generate a summary of this abstract. Your summary should not be very short, but it's better if it's not more than 30 words.
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Question: Cold-start and efficiency issues of the Top-k recommendation are critical to large-scale recommender systems. Previous hybrid recommendation methods are effective to deal with the cold-start issues by extracting real latent factors of cold-start items(users) from side information, but they still suffer low efficiency in online recommendation caused by the expensive similarity search in real latent space. This paper presents a collaborative generated hashing (CGH) to improve the efficiency by denoting users and items as binary codes, which applies to various settings: cold-start users, cold-start items and warm-start ones. Specifically, CGH is designed to learn hash functions of users and items through the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle; thus, it can deal with various recommendation settings. In addition, CGH initiates a new marketing strategy through mining potential users by a generative step. To reconstruct effective users, the MDL principle is used to learn compact and informative binary codes from the content data. Extensive experiments on two public datasets show the advantages for recommendations in various settings over competing baselines and analyze the feasibility of the application in marketing.

Answer: It can generate effective hash codes for efficient cold-start recommendation and meanwhile provide a feasible marketing strategy.


Question: Understanding the groundbreaking performance of Deep Neural Networks is one
 of the greatest challenges to the scientific community today. In this work, we
 introduce an information theoretic viewpoint on the behavior of deep networks
 optimization processes and their generalization abilities. By studying the Information
 Plane, the plane of the mutual information between the input variable and
 the desired label, for each hidden layer. Specifically, we show that the training of
 the network is characterized by a rapid increase in the mutual information (MI)
 between the layers and the target label, followed by a longer decrease in the MI
 between the layers and the input variable. Further, we explicitly show that these
 two fundamental information-theoretic quantities correspond to the generalization
 error of the network, as a result of introducing a new generalization bound that is
 exponential in the representation compression. The analysis focuses on typical
 patterns of large-scale problems. For this purpose, we introduce a novel analytic
 bound on the mutual information between consecutive layers in the network.
 An important consequence of our analysis is a super-linear boost in training time
 with the number of non-degenerate hidden layers, demonstrating the computational
 benefit of the hidden layers.

Answer: Introduce an information theoretic viewpoint on the behavior of deep networks optimization processes and their generalization abilities


Question: Generative adversarial networks (GANs) learn to map samples from a noise distribution to a chosen data distribution. Recent work has demonstrated that GANs are consequently sensitive to, and limited by, the shape of the noise distribution. For example, a single generator struggles to map continuous noise (e.g. a uniform distribution) to discontinuous output (e.g. separate Gaussians) or complex output (e.g. intersecting parabolas). We address this problem by learning to generate from multiple models such that the generator's output is actually the combination of several distinct networks. We contribute a novel formulation of multi-generator models where we learn a prior over the generators conditioned on the noise, parameterized by a neural network. Thus, this network not only learns the optimal rate to sample from each generator but also optimally shapes the noise received by each generator. The resulting Noise Prior GAN (NPGAN) achieves expressivity and flexibility that surpasses both single generator models and previous multi-generator models.

Answer:
A multi-generator GAN framework with an additional network to learn a prior over the input noise.