529 research outputs found
iTrace: An Implicit Trust Inference Method for Trust-aware Collaborative Filtering
The growth of Internet commerce has stimulated the use of collaborative
filtering (CF) algorithms as recommender systems. A collaborative filtering
(CF) algorithm recommends items of interest to the target user by leveraging
the votes given by other similar users. In a standard CF framework, it is
assumed that the credibility of every voting user is exactly the same with
respect to the target user. This assumption is not satisfied and thus may lead
to misleading recommendations in many practical applications. A natural
countermeasure is to design a trust-aware CF (TaCF) algorithm, which can take
account of the difference in the credibilities of the voting users when
performing CF. To this end, this paper presents a trust inference approach,
which can predict the implicit trust of the target user on every voting user
from a sparse explicit trust matrix. Then an improved CF algorithm termed
iTrace is proposed, which takes advantage of both the explicit and the
predicted implicit trust to provide recommendations with the CF framework. An
empirical evaluation on a public dataset demonstrates that the proposed
algorithm provides a significant improvement in recommendation quality in terms
of mean absolute error (MAE).Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
Hete-CF: Social-Based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation using Heterogeneous Relations
Collaborative filtering algorithms haven been widely used in recommender
systems. However, they often suffer from the data sparsity and cold start
problems. With the increasing popularity of social media, these problems may be
solved by using social-based recommendation. Social-based recommendation, as an
emerging research area, uses social information to help mitigate the data
sparsity and cold start problems, and it has been demonstrated that the
social-based recommendation algorithms can efficiently improve the
recommendation performance. However, few of the existing algorithms have
considered using multiple types of relations within one social network. In this
paper, we investigate the social-based recommendation algorithms on
heterogeneous social networks and proposed Hete-CF, a Social Collaborative
Filtering algorithm using heterogeneous relations. Distinct from the exiting
methods, Hete-CF can effectively utilize multiple types of relations in a
heterogeneous social network. In addition, Hete-CF is a general approach and
can be used in arbitrary social networks, including event based social
networks, location based social networks, and any other types of heterogeneous
information networks associated with social information. The experimental
results on two real-world data sets, DBLP (a typical heterogeneous information
network) and Meetup (a typical event based social network) show the
effectiveness and efficiency of our algorithm
A Survey of e-Commerce Recommender Systems
Due to their powerful personalization and efficiency features, recommendation systems are being used extensively in many online environments. Recommender systems provide great opportunities to businesses, therefore research on developing new recommender system techniques and methods have been receiving increasing attention. This paper reviews recent developments in recommender systems in the domain of ecommerce. The main purpose of the paper is to summarize and compare the latest improvements of e-commerce recommender systems from the perspective of e-vendors. By examining the recent publications in the field, our research provides thorough analysis of current advancements and attempts to identify the existing issues in recommender systems. Final outcomes give practitioners and researchers the necessary insights and directions on recommender systems
Assessing and improving recommender systems to deal with user cold-start problem
Recommender systems are in our everyday life. The recommendation methods have as
main purpose to predict preferences for new items based on userŠs past preferences. The
research related to this topic seeks among other things to discuss user cold-start problem,
which is the challenge of recommending to users with few or no preferences records.
One way to address cold-start issues is to infer the missing data relying on side information.
Side information of different types has been explored in researches. Some
studies use social information combined with usersŠ preferences, others user click behavior,
location-based information, userŠs visual perception, contextual information, etc. The
typical approach is to use side information to build one prediction model for each cold
user. Due to the inherent complexity of this prediction process, for full cold-start user in
particular, the performance of most recommender systems falls a great deal. We, rather,
propose that cold users are best served by models already built in system.
In this thesis we propose 4 approaches to deal with user cold-start problem using
existing models available for analysis in the recommender systems. We cover the follow
aspects:
o Embedding social information into traditional recommender systems: We investigate
the role of several social metrics on pairwise preference recommendations and
provide the Ąrst steps towards a general framework to incorporate social information
in traditional approaches.
o Improving recommendation with visual perception similarities: We extract networks
connecting users with similar visual perception and use them to come up with
prediction models that maximize the information gained from cold users.
o Analyzing the beneĄts of general framework to incorporate networked information
into recommender systems: Representing different types of side information as a
user network, we investigated how to incorporate networked information into recommender
systems to understand the beneĄts of it in the context of cold user
recommendation.
o Analyzing the impact of prediction model selection for cold users: The last proposal
consider that without side information the system will recommend to cold users
based on the switch of models already built in system.
We evaluated the proposed approaches in terms of prediction quality and ranking
quality in real-world datasets under different recommendation domains. The experiments
showed that our approaches achieve better results than the comparison methods.Tese (Doutorado)Sistemas de recomendação fazem parte do nosso dia-a-dia. Os métodos usados nesses
sistemas tem como objetivo principal predizer as preferências por novos itens baseado no
perĄl do usuário. As pesquisas relacionadas a esse tópico procuram entre outras coisas
tratar o problema do cold-start do usuário, que é o desaĄo de recomendar itens para
usuários que possuem poucos ou nenhum registro de preferências no sistema.
Uma forma de tratar o cold-start do usuário é buscar inferir as preferências dos usuários
a partir de informações adicionais. Dessa forma, informações adicionais de diferentes tipos
podem ser exploradas nas pesquisas. Alguns estudos usam informação social combinada
com preferências dos usuários, outros se baseiam nos clicks ao navegar por sites Web,
informação de localização geográĄca, percepção visual, informação de contexto, etc. A
abordagem típica desses sistemas é usar informação adicional para construir um modelo
de predição para cada usuário. Além desse processo ser mais complexo, para usuários
full cold-start (sem preferências identiĄcadas pelo sistema) em particular, a maioria dos
sistemas de recomendação apresentam um baixo desempenho. O trabalho aqui apresentado,
por outro lado, propõe que novos usuários receberão recomendações mais acuradas
de modelos de predição que já existem no sistema.
Nesta tese foram propostas 4 abordagens para lidar com o problema de cold-start
do usuário usando modelos existentes nos sistemas de recomendação. As abordagens
apresentadas trataram os seguintes aspectos:
o Inclusão de informação social em sistemas de recomendação tradicional: foram investigados
os papéis de várias métricas sociais em um sistema de recomendação de
preferências pairwise fornecendo subsidíos para a deĄnição de um framework geral
para incluir informação social em abordagens tradicionais.
o Uso de similaridade por percepção visual: usando a similaridade por percepção
visual foram inferidas redes, conectando usuários similares, para serem usadas na
seleção de modelos de predição para novos usuários.
o Análise dos benefícios de um framework geral para incluir informação de redes
de usuários em sistemas de recomendação: representando diferentes tipos de informação
adicional como uma rede de usuários, foi investigado como as redes de
usuários podem ser incluídas nos sistemas de recomendação de maneira a beneĄciar
a recomendação para usuários cold-start.
o Análise do impacto da seleção de modelos de predição para usuários cold-start:
a última abordagem proposta considerou que sem a informação adicional o sistema
poderia recomendar para novos usuários fazendo a troca entre os modelos já
existentes no sistema e procurando aprender qual seria o mais adequado para a
recomendação.
As abordagens propostas foram avaliadas em termos da qualidade da predição e da
qualidade do ranking em banco de dados reais e de diferentes domínios. Os resultados
obtidos demonstraram que as abordagens propostas atingiram melhores resultados que os
métodos do estado da arte
Deep Learning based Recommender System: A Survey and New Perspectives
With the ever-growing volume of online information, recommender systems have
been an effective strategy to overcome such information overload. The utility
of recommender systems cannot be overstated, given its widespread adoption in
many web applications, along with its potential impact to ameliorate many
problems related to over-choice. In recent years, deep learning has garnered
considerable interest in many research fields such as computer vision and
natural language processing, owing not only to stellar performance but also the
attractive property of learning feature representations from scratch. The
influence of deep learning is also pervasive, recently demonstrating its
effectiveness when applied to information retrieval and recommender systems
research. Evidently, the field of deep learning in recommender system is
flourishing. This article aims to provide a comprehensive review of recent
research efforts on deep learning based recommender systems. More concretely,
we provide and devise a taxonomy of deep learning based recommendation models,
along with providing a comprehensive summary of the state-of-the-art. Finally,
we expand on current trends and provide new perspectives pertaining to this new
exciting development of the field.Comment: The paper has been accepted by ACM Computing Surveys.
https://doi.acm.org/10.1145/328502
Comparative Analysis of Different Trust Metrics of User-User Trust-Based Recommendation System
Information overload is the biggest challenge nowadays for any website, especially e-commerce websites. However, this challenge arises for the fast growth of information on the web (WWW) with easy access to the internet. Collaborative filtering based recommender system is the most useful application to solve the information overload problem by filtering relevant information for the users according to their interests. But, the existing system faces some significant limitations such as data sparsity, low accuracy, cold-start, and malicious attacks. To alleviate the mentioned issues, the relationship of trust incorporates in the system where it can be between the users or items, and such system is known as the trust-based recommender system (TBRS). From the user perspective, the motive of the TBRS is to utilize the reliability between the users to generate more accurate and trusted recommendations. However, the study aims to present a comparative analysis of different trust metrics in the context of the type of trust definition of TBRS. Also, the study accomplishes twenty-four trust metrics in terms of the methodology, trust properties \& measurement, validation approaches, and the experimented dataset
An effective recommender system by unifying user and item trust information for B2B applications
© 2015 Elsevier Inc. Although Collaborative Filtering (CF)-based recommender systems have received great success in a variety of applications, they still under-perform and are unable to provide accurate recommendations when users and items have few ratings, resulting in reduced coverage. To overcome these limitations, we propose an effective hybrid user-item trust-based (HUIT) recommendation approach in this paper that fuses the users' and items' implicit trust information. We have also considered and computed user and item global reputations into this approach. This approach allows the recommender system to make an increased number of accurate predictions, especially in circumstances where users and items have few ratings. Experiments on four real-world datasets, particularly a business-to-business (B2B) case study, show that the proposed HUIT recommendation approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms in terms of recommendation accuracy and coverage, as well as significantly alleviating data sparsity, cold-start user and cold-start item problems
Towards Integration of Artificial Intelligence into Medical Devices as a Real-Time Recommender System for Personalised Healthcare:State-of-the-Art and Future Prospects
In the era of big data, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have the potential to revolutionize healthcare by improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. AI algorithms have frequently been used in health care for predictive modelling, image analysis and drug discovery. Moreover, as a recommender system, these algorithms have shown promising impacts on personalized healthcare provision. A recommender system learns the behaviour of the user and predicts their current preferences (recommends) based on their previous preferences. Implementing AI as a recommender system improves this prediction accuracy and solves cold start and data sparsity problems. However, most of the methods and algorithms are tested in a simulated setting which cannot recapitulate the influencing factors of the real world. This review article systematically reviews prevailing methodologies in recommender systems and discusses the AI algorithms as recommender systems specifically in the field of healthcare. It also provides discussion around the most cutting-edge academic and practical contributions present in the literature, identifies performance evaluation matrices, challenges in the implementation of AI as a recommender system, and acceptance of AI-based recommender systems by clinicians. The findings of this article direct researchers and professionals to comprehend currently developed recommender systems and the future of medical devices integrated with real-time recommender systems for personalized healthcare
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