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A major challenge in recommendation systems is the cold-start problem, where the absence of historical interaction data for new users and items leads to poor recommendation performance. We first analyze the causes of the cold-start problem, highlighting the limitations of existing embedding models when faced with a lack of interaction data. To address this, we classify the features of models into three categories, leveraging the Trans Block mapping to transfer features into the semantic space of missing features. Then, we propose a model-agnostic industrial framework (MAIF) with the Auto-Selection serving mechanism to address the cold-start recommendation problem in few-shot and zero-shot scenarios without requiring training from scratch. This framework can be applied to various online models without altering the prediction for warm entities, effectively avoiding the \u201cseesaw phenomenon\u201d between cold and warm entities. It improves prediction accuracy and calibration performance in three cold-start scenarios of recommendation systems. Finally, both the offline experiments on real-world industrial datasets and the online advertising system on the Dazhong Dianping app validate the effectiveness of our approach, showing significant improvements in recommendation performance for cold-start scenarios.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info16121105","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,15]],"date-time":"2025-12-15T15:15:08Z","timestamp":1765811708000},"page":"1105","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["An Industrial Framework for Cold-Start Recommendation in Few-Shot and Zero-Shot Scenarios"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0000-1544-0082","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xulei","family":"Cao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0001-1457-1707","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Wenyu","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China"}]},{"given":"Feiyang","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8136-6834","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Xinming","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230027, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Gao, C., Li, S., Lei, W., Chen, J., Li, B., Jiang, P., He, X., Mao, J., and Chua, T.S. 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