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R ecommendation algorithms are best known for their use on e-commerce Web sites, 1 where they use input about a customer's interests to generate a list of recommended items. Many applications use only the items that customers purchase and explicitly rate to represent their interests, but they can also use other attributes, including items viewed, demographic data, subject interests, and favorite artists.
Listwise Collaborative Filtering
Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval - SIGIR '15, 2015
Recently, ranking-oriented collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms have achieved great success in recommender systems. They obtained state-of-the-art performances by estimating a preference ranking of items for each user rather than estimating the absolute ratings on unrated items (as conventional rating-oriented CF algorithms do). In this paper, we propose a new ranking-oriented CF algorithm, called ListCF. Following the memory-based CF framework, ListCF directly predicts a total order of items for each user based on similar users' probability distributions over permutations of the items, and thus differs from previous ranking-oriented memory-based CF algorithms that focus on predicting the pairwise preferences between items. One important advantage of ListCF lies in its ability of reducing the computational complexity of the training and prediction procedures while achieving the same or better ranking performances as compared to previous ranking-oriented memory-based CF algorithms. Extensive experiments on three benchmark datasets against several state-of-the-art baselines demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposal.
A SURVEY OF MEMORY BASED METHODS FOR COLLABORATIVE FILTERING BASED TECHNIQUES
The cyberspace aims at providing an increasingly dynamic experience to users. The rise of electronic commerce has led to efforts for providing a highly efficient and qualitative experience to the consumer. Recommender Systems are a step in this direction. They aid in understanding the unlimited amount of data available and in particularly knowing each user. One of the most flourishing techniques to generate recommendations is Collaborative filtering. The technique focuses on using available information about existing users to generate prediction for the active user. A widely employed approach for the purpose is the memory based algorithm. The existing preferences of a user are represented in form of a useritem matrix. The method makes use of the complete or partial user-item matrix in order to isolate the nearest users for the active user and then generate the prediction. The majority of initial efforts dedicated to understanding electronic commerce and recommender systems concentrate only on the technical aspects like algorithm building and computational needs of such systems. Not much attention has been provided to questions pertaining to the need of such systems or how effective they are at what they try to perform. Along with looking at the various stages corresponding to a memory based collaborative filtering system, we propose an experiment to check the effectiveness of predictions or ratings generated by such systems.
Item-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms
Recommender systems apply knowledge discovery techniques to the problem of making personalized recommendations for information, products or services during a live interaction. These systems, especially the k-nearest neighbor collaborative filtering based ones, are achieving widespread success on the Web. The tremendous growth in the amount of available information and the number of visitors to Web sites in recent years poses some key challenges for recommender systems. These are: producing high quality recommendations, performing many recommendations per second for millions of users and items and achieving high coverage in the face of data sparsity. In traditional collaborative filtering systems the amount of work increases with the number of participants in the system. New recommender system technologies are needed that can quickly produce high quality recommendations, even for very large-scale problems. To address these issues we have explored item-based collaborative filtering techniques. Itembased techniques first analyze the user-item matrix to identify relationships between different items, and then use these relationships to indirectly compute recommendations for users.
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Balancing scalability and relevance is important for industry-level recommender systems. A large scale e-commerce website may have millions of customers and millions of items. Typically, researchers and data scientists generate models which are anchored on customer level, or item level. Customer anchored recommendation models are typically surfaced on front pages of e-commerce websites. Similarly, item pages typically host various item anchored models. In each of the two usecases, developers frequently store models offline, i.e., models are stored for each customer, or are stored for each item. Scalability challenges arise when one wishes to personalize item anchored models. Offline based approaches, where both customer and item ids are stored as anchors become rapidly unscalable as number of customers and items increase. Another approach is to utilize an online approach on a pre-computed recall set (for example: item recommendations for a given anchor item), and then to apply users...
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Structured Collaborative Filtering
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In a general collaborative filtering (CF) setting, a user profile contains a set of previously rated items and is used to represent the user's interest. Unfortunately, most CF approaches ignore the underlying structure of user profiles. In this paper, we argue that a certain class of interest is best represented jointly by several items, drawing an analogy to "phrases" in text retrieval, which are not equivalent to the separate meaning of their words. At an alternative stance, we also consider the situation where, analogously to word synonyms, two items might be substitutable when representing a class of interest. We propose an approach integrating these two notions as opposing poles on a continuum spectrum. Upon this, we model the underlying structure in user profiles, drawing an analogy with text retrieval. The approach gives rise to a novel structured Vector Space Model for CF. We show that item-based CF approaches are a special case of the proposed method.
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In many digital contexts such as online news and e-tailing with many new users and items, recommendation systems face several challenges: i) how to make initial recommendations to users with little or no response history (i.e., cold-start problem), ii) how to learn user preferences on items (test and learn), and iii) how to scale across many users and items with myriad demographics and attributes. While many recommendation systems accommodate aspects of these challenges, few if any address all. This paper introduces a Collaborative Filtering (CF) Multi-armed Bandit (B) with Attributes (A) recommendation system (CFB-A) to jointly accommodate all of these considerations. Empirical applications including an offline test on MovieLens data, synthetic data simulations, and an online grocery experiment indicate the CFB-A leads to substantial improvement on cumulative average rewards (e.g., total money or time spent, clicks, purchased quantities, average ratings, etc.) relative to the most powerful extant baseline methods.
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