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A Probabilistic Model for the Cold-Start Problem in Rating Prediction using Click Data
One of the most efficient methods in collaborative filtering is matrix
factorization, which finds the latent vector representations of users and items
based on the ratings of users to items. However, a matrix factorization based
algorithm suffers from the cold-start problem: it cannot find latent vectors
for items to which previous ratings are not available. This paper utilizes
click data, which can be collected in abundance, to address the cold-start
problem. We propose a probabilistic item embedding model that learns item
representations from click data, and a model named EMB-MF, that connects it
with a probabilistic matrix factorization for rating prediction. The
experiments on three real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed model is
not only effective in recommending items with no previous ratings, but also
outperforms competing methods, especially when the data is very sparse.Comment: ICONIP 201
Degenerate Fermi Gases of Ytterbium
An evaporative cooling was performed to cool the fermionic 173Yb atoms in a
crossed optical dipole trap. The elastic collision rate, which is important for
the evaporation, turns out to be large enough from our study. This large
collision rate leads to efficient evaporation and we have successfully cooled
the atoms below 0.6 of the Fermi temperature, that is to say, to a quantum
degenerate regime. In this regime, a plunge of evaporation efficiency is
observed as the result of the Fermi degeneracy.Comment: 4 pages, 3figure
All-Optical Formation of Quantum Degenerate Mixtures
We report the realization of quantum degenerate mixed gases of ytterbium (Yb)
isotopes using all-optical methods. We have succeeded in cooling attractively
interacting 176Yb atoms via sympathetic cooling down to below the Bose-Einstein
transition temperature, coexisting with a stable condensate of 174Yb atoms with
a repulsive interaction. We have observed a rapid atom loss in 176Yb atoms
after cooling down below the transition temperature, which indicates the
collapse of a 176Yb condensate. The sympathetic cooling technique has been
applied to cool a 173Yb-174Yb Fermi-Bose mixture to the quantum degenerate
regime.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
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