36 research outputs found
Dynamic Poisson Factorization
Models for recommender systems use latent factors to explain the preferences
and behaviors of users with respect to a set of items (e.g., movies, books,
academic papers). Typically, the latent factors are assumed to be static and,
given these factors, the observed preferences and behaviors of users are
assumed to be generated without order. These assumptions limit the explorative
and predictive capabilities of such models, since users' interests and item
popularity may evolve over time. To address this, we propose dPF, a dynamic
matrix factorization model based on the recent Poisson factorization model for
recommendations. dPF models the time evolving latent factors with a Kalman
filter and the actions with Poisson distributions. We derive a scalable
variational inference algorithm to infer the latent factors. Finally, we
demonstrate dPF on 10 years of user click data from arXiv.org, one of the
largest repository of scientific papers and a formidable source of information
about the behavior of scientists. Empirically we show performance improvement
over both static and, more recently proposed, dynamic recommendation models. We
also provide a thorough exploration of the inferred posteriors over the latent
variables.Comment: RecSys 201
A systematic mapping study
Corte-Real, N., Ruivo, P., & Oliveira, T. (2014). The diffusion stages of business intelligence & analytics (BI&A):: A systematic mapping study. In Procedia Technology (Vol. 16, pp. 172-179). (Procedia Technology). DOI: 10.1016/j.protcy.2014.10.080Business intelligence & analytics (BI&A) has evolved to become a foundational cornerstone of enterprise decision support. Since the way BI&A is implemented and assimilated is quite different among organizations is important to approach BI&A literature by four selected diffusion stages (adoption, implementation, use and impacts of use). The diffusion stages assume a crucial importance to track the BI&A evolution in organizations and justify the investment made. The main focus of this paper is to evidence BI&A research on its several diffusion stages. It provides an updated bibliography of BI&A articles published in the IS journal and conferences during the period of 2000 and 2013. A total of 30 articles from 11 journals and 8 conferences are reviewed. This study contributes to the BI&A research in three ways. This is the first systematic mapping study focused on BI&A diffusion stages. It contributes to see how BI&A stages have been analyzed (theories used, data collection methods, analysis methods and publication source). Finally, it observes that little attention has been given to BI&A post-adoption stages and proposes future research line on this area.publishersversionpublishe
CnGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Cross-network user preference generation for non-overlapped users
A major drawback of cross-network recommender solutions is that they can only
be applied to users that are overlapped across networks. Thus, the
non-overlapped users, which form the majority of users are ignored. As a
solution, we propose CnGAN, a novel multi-task learning based,
encoder-GAN-recommender architecture. The proposed model synthetically
generates source network user preferences for non-overlapped users by learning
the mapping from target to source network preference manifolds. The resultant
user preferences are used in a Siamese network based neural recommender
architecture. Furthermore, we propose a novel user based pairwise loss function
for recommendations using implicit interactions to better guide the generation
process in the multi-task learning environment.We illustrate our solution by
generating user preferences on the Twitter source network for recommendations
on the YouTube target network. Extensive experiments show that the generated
preferences can be used to improve recommendations for non-overlapped users.
The resultant recommendations achieve superior performance compared to the
state-of-the-art cross-network recommender solutions in terms of accuracy,
novelty and diversity
Feedback-Based Self-Learning in Large-Scale Conversational AI Agents
Today, most large-scale conversational AI agents (e.g. Alexa, Siri, or Google
Assistant) are built using manually annotated data to train the different
components of the system. Typically, the accuracy of the ML models in these
components are improved by manually transcribing and annotating data. As the
scope of these systems increase to cover more scenarios and domains, manual
annotation to improve the accuracy of these components becomes prohibitively
costly and time consuming. In this paper, we propose a system that leverages
user-system interaction feedback signals to automate learning without any
manual annotation. Users here tend to modify a previous query in hopes of
fixing an error in the previous turn to get the right results. These
reformulations, which are often preceded by defective experiences caused by
errors in ASR, NLU, ER or the application. In some cases, users may not
properly formulate their requests (e.g. providing partial title of a song), but
gleaning across a wider pool of users and sessions reveals the underlying
recurrent patterns. Our proposed self-learning system automatically detects the
errors, generate reformulations and deploys fixes to the runtime system to
correct different types of errors occurring in different components of the
system. In particular, we propose leveraging an absorbing Markov Chain model as
a collaborative filtering mechanism in a novel attempt to mine these patterns.
We show that our approach is highly scalable, and able to learn reformulations
that reduce Alexa-user errors by pooling anonymized data across millions of
customers. The proposed self-learning system achieves a win/loss ratio of 11.8
and effectively reduces the defect rate by more than 30% on utterance level
reformulations in our production A/B tests. To the best of our knowledge, this
is the first self-learning large-scale conversational AI system in production.Comment: 8 pages, 2 figure
Show Your Face! Investigating the Relationship Between Human Faces and Music’s Success
Streaming services are becoming the primary source for media consumption. Particularly platforms like SoundCloud, where users can disseminate user-generated content (UGC), are gaining relevance. To shed light into the drivers which positively influence the number of listeners, we draw from marketing literature related to depictions of people, which suggests that human faces can contribute to a higher degree of brand liking or brand identification. Thereupon, we propose a hypothesis which suggests that human faces on cover arts likewise generate more plays. We follow a data science approach using 1754 observations from SoundCloud and apply Google’s facial recognition API (Vision AI) to examine the impact of human faces on music’s success. We provide initial evidence that tracks with a human-face cover art yield in a higher number of plays compared to tracks with a cover art without a human face