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Tag-Aware Recommender Systems: A State-of-the-art Survey
In the past decade, Social Tagging Systems have attracted increasing
attention from both physical and computer science communities. Besides the
underlying structure and dynamics of tagging systems, many efforts have been
addressed to unify tagging information to reveal user behaviors and
preferences, extract the latent semantic relations among items, make
recommendations, and so on. Specifically, this article summarizes recent
progress about tag-aware recommender systems, emphasizing on the contributions
from three mainstream perspectives and approaches: network-based methods,
tensor-based methods, and the topic-based methods. Finally, we outline some
other tag-related works and future challenges of tag-aware recommendation
algorithms.Comment: 19 pages, 3 figure
Intent-Aware Contextual Recommendation System
Recommender systems take inputs from user history, use an internal ranking
algorithm to generate results and possibly optimize this ranking based on
feedback. However, often the recommender system is unaware of the actual intent
of the user and simply provides recommendations dynamically without properly
understanding the thought process of the user. An intelligent recommender
system is not only useful for the user but also for businesses which want to
learn the tendencies of their users. Finding out tendencies or intents of a
user is a difficult problem to solve.
Keeping this in mind, we sought out to create an intelligent system which
will keep track of the user's activity on a web-application as well as
determine the intent of the user in each session. We devised a way to encode
the user's activity through the sessions. Then, we have represented the
information seen by the user in a high dimensional format which is reduced to
lower dimensions using tensor factorization techniques. The aspect of intent
awareness (or scoring) is dealt with at this stage. Finally, combining the user
activity data with the contextual information gives the recommendation score.
The final recommendations are then ranked using filtering and collaborative
recommendation techniques to show the top-k recommendations to the user. A
provision for feedback is also envisioned in the current system which informs
the model to update the various weights in the recommender system. Our overall
model aims to combine both frequency-based and context-based recommendation
systems and quantify the intent of a user to provide better recommendations.
We ran experiments on real-world timestamped user activity data, in the
setting of recommending reports to the users of a business analytics tool and
the results are better than the baselines. We also tuned certain aspects of our
model to arrive at optimized results.Comment: Presented at the 5th International Workshop on Data Science and Big
Data Analytics (DSBDA), 17th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
(ICDM) 2017; 8 pages; 4 figures; Due to the limitation "The abstract field
cannot be longer than 1,920 characters," the abstract appearing here is
slightly shorter than the one in the PDF fil
Applying Deep Machine Learning for psycho-demographic profiling of Internet users using O.C.E.A.N. model of personality
In the modern era, each Internet user leaves enormous amounts of auxiliary
digital residuals (footprints) by using a variety of on-line services. All this
data is already collected and stored for many years. In recent works, it was
demonstrated that it's possible to apply simple machine learning methods to
analyze collected digital footprints and to create psycho-demographic profiles
of individuals. However, while these works clearly demonstrated the
applicability of machine learning methods for such an analysis, created simple
prediction models still lacks accuracy necessary to be successfully applied for
practical needs. We have assumed that using advanced deep machine learning
methods may considerably increase the accuracy of predictions. We started with
simple machine learning methods to estimate basic prediction performance and
moved further by applying advanced methods based on shallow and deep neural
networks. Then we compared prediction power of studied models and made
conclusions about its performance. Finally, we made hypotheses how prediction
accuracy can be further improved. As result of this work, we provide full
source code used in the experiments for all interested researchers and
practitioners in corresponding GitHub repository. We believe that applying deep
machine learning for psycho-demographic profiling may have an enormous impact
on the society (for good or worse) and provides means for Artificial
Intelligence (AI) systems to better understand humans by creating their
psychological profiles. Thus AI agents may achieve the human-like ability to
participate in conversation (communication) flow by anticipating human
opponents' reactions, expectations, and behavior
Recommender Systems
The ongoing rapid expansion of the Internet greatly increases the necessity
of effective recommender systems for filtering the abundant information.
Extensive research for recommender systems is conducted by a broad range of
communities including social and computer scientists, physicists, and
interdisciplinary researchers. Despite substantial theoretical and practical
achievements, unification and comparison of different approaches are lacking,
which impedes further advances. In this article, we review recent developments
in recommender systems and discuss the major challenges. We compare and
evaluate available algorithms and examine their roles in the future
developments. In addition to algorithms, physical aspects are described to
illustrate macroscopic behavior of recommender systems. Potential impacts and
future directions are discussed. We emphasize that recommendation has a great
scientific depth and combines diverse research fields which makes it of
interests for physicists as well as interdisciplinary researchers.Comment: 97 pages, 20 figures (To appear in Physics Reports
Online Tensor Methods for Learning Latent Variable Models
We introduce an online tensor decomposition based approach for two latent
variable modeling problems namely, (1) community detection, in which we learn
the latent communities that the social actors in social networks belong to, and
(2) topic modeling, in which we infer hidden topics of text articles. We
consider decomposition of moment tensors using stochastic gradient descent. We
conduct optimization of multilinear operations in SGD and avoid directly
forming the tensors, to save computational and storage costs. We present
optimized algorithm in two platforms. Our GPU-based implementation exploits the
parallelism of SIMD architectures to allow for maximum speed-up by a careful
optimization of storage and data transfer, whereas our CPU-based implementation
uses efficient sparse matrix computations and is suitable for large sparse
datasets. For the community detection problem, we demonstrate accuracy and
computational efficiency on Facebook, Yelp and DBLP datasets, and for the topic
modeling problem, we also demonstrate good performance on the New York Times
dataset. We compare our results to the state-of-the-art algorithms such as the
variational method, and report a gain of accuracy and a gain of several orders
of magnitude in the execution time.Comment: JMLR 201
A tensor-based approach for big data representation and dimensionality reduction
PublishedJournal Article© 2013 IEEE. Variety and veracity are two distinct characteristics of large-scale and heterogeneous data. It has been a great challenge to efficiently represent and process big data with a unified scheme. In this paper, a unified tensor model is proposed to represent the unstructured, semistructured, and structured data. With tensor extension operator, various types of data are represented as subtensors and then are merged to a unified tensor. In order to extract the core tensor which is small but contains valuable information, an incremental high order singular value decomposition (IHOSVD) method is presented. By recursively applying the incremental matrix decomposition algorithm, IHOSVD is able to update the orthogonal bases and compute the new core tensor. Analyzes in terms of time complexity, memory usage, and approximation accuracy of the proposed method are provided in this paper. A case study illustrates that approximate data reconstructed from the core set containing 18% elements can guarantee 93% accuracy in general. Theoretical analyzes and experimental results demonstrate that the proposed unified tensor model and IHOSVD method are efficient for big data representation and dimensionality reduction
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