Boosting Response Aware Model-Based Collaborative Filtering

doi:10.1109/TKDE.2015.2405556

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Boosting Response Aware Model-Based Collaborative Filtering

2015-08-01

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DOI：10.1109/TKDE.2015.2405556

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Recommender systems are promising for providing personalized favorite services. Collaborative filtering (CF) technologies, making prediction of users' preference based on users' previous behaviors, have become one of the most successful techniques to build modern recommender systems. Several challenging issues occur in previously proposed CF methods: 1) most CF methods ignore users' response patterns and may yield biased parameter estimation and suboptimal performance; 2) some CF methods adopt heuristic weight settings, which lacks a systematical implementation; and 3) the multinomial mixture models may weaken the computational ability of matrix factorization for generating the data matrix, thus increasing the computational cost of training. To resolve these issues, we incorporate users' response models into the probabilistic matrix factorization (PMF), a popular matrix factorization CF model, to establish the response aware probabilistic matrix factorization (RAPMF) framework. More specifically, we make the assumption on the user response as a Bernoulli distribution which is parameterized by the rating scores for the observed ratings while as a step function for the unobserved ratings. Moreover, we speed up the algorithm by a mini-batch implementation and a crafting scheduling policy. Finally, we design different experimental protocols and conduct systematical empirical evaluation on both synthetic and real-world datasets to demonstrate the merits of the proposed RAPMF and its mini-batch implementation.

Keywords:

Recommender systems

collaborative filtering

matrix factorization

missing data theory

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