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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-information-and-optimization-sciences</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Journal of Information and Optimization Sciences</journal-title>
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      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-0103</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0252-2667</issn>
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        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIOS-2329</article-id>
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        <article-title>A scalable deep learning-based context-aware recommendation framework using autoencoder-regularized neural interaction modeling</article-title>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Alam</surname>
            <given-names>Md Mahtab</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi, 110025, India</aff>
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        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Ahmed</surname>
            <given-names>Mumtaz</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Engineering, Jamia Millia Islamia, Jamia Nagar, New Delhi, Delhi, 110025, India</aff>
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          <name>
            <surname>Ahmad</surname>
            <given-names>Wakar</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Information Technology Sonepat, Sonepat, Haryana, 131001, India</aff>
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      </contrib-group>
      <volume>47</volume>
      <issue>7</issue>
      <fpage>2757</fpage>
      <lpage>2770</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>07</month>
        <year>2026</year>
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        <p>Recommendation systems are needed to handle large-scale user-item interactions on digital platforms, but they often face severe data sparsity and cold-start issues. Current collaborative filtering and deep-learning models are frequently oblivious to complex contextual dependencies and difficult to scale computationally. To address these limitations, the paper presents a context-sensitive recommendation framework built on deep learning that integrates autoencoder-based latent feature generation with a neural interaction model. The proposed model effectively captures high-order user-item-context correlations in a sparse environment and maintains computational efficiency suitable for large-scale deployment. Contextual cues, including time, category, and geographic ones, are combined through a hybrid manifold that optimizes reconstruction and prediction losses simultaneously. The model consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines by up to 15% in Recall@10 and NDCG@10 across three benchmark datasets (MovieLens-1M, Amazon, and Yelp), showing greater robustness in cold-start and high-sparsity situations. The implementation demonstrates effective GPU scalability, affirming the potential of the proposed framework as a robust and computationally feasible solution for real-world intelligent recommendation systems.</p>
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        <kwd>Neural collaborative filtering</kwd>
        <kwd>Cold-start</kwd>
        <kwd>Sparsity</kwd>
        <kwd>High-performance computing</kwd>
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