DaisyRec 2.0

DaisyRec 2.0: Benchmarking Recommendation for Rigorous Evaluation

Sun, Zhu (Institute of High Performance Computing)
Fang, Hui
Yang, J. (TU Delft Web Information Systems)
Qu, Xinghua (Bytedance AI Lab)
Liu, Hongyang (Yanshan University)
Yu, Di (Singapore Management University)
Ong, Yew Soon (Nanyang Technological University)
Zhang, Jie (Nanyang Technological University)

2023

Recently, one critical issue looms large in the field of recommender systems - there are no effective benchmarks for rigorous evaluation - which consequently leads to unreproducible evaluation and unfair comparison. We, therefore, conduct studies from the perspectives of practical theory and experiments, aiming at benchmarking recommendation for rigorous evaluation. Regarding the theoretical study, a series of hyper-factors affecting recommendation performance throughout the whole evaluation chain are systematically summarized and analyzed via an exhaustive review on 141 papers published at eight top-tier conferences within 2017-2020. We then classify them into model-independent and model-dependent hyper-factors, and different modes of rigorous evaluation are defined and discussed in-depth accordingly. For the experimental study, we release DaisyRec 2.0 library by integrating these hyper-factors to perform rigorous evaluation, whereby a holistic empirical study is conducted to unveil the impacts of different hyper-factors on recommendation performance. Supported by the theoretical and experimental studies, we finally create benchmarks for rigorous evaluation by proposing standardized procedures and providing performance of ten state-of-the-arts across six evaluation metrics on six datasets as a reference for later study. Overall, our work sheds light on the issues in recommendation evaluation, provides potential solutions for rigorous evaluation, and lays foundation for further investigation.

Benchmarks
fair comparison
recommender systems
reproducible evaluation
standardized procedures

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1014a9d2-3604-46ac-a92e-cb6e485e7d72

https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3231891

2023-06-26

0162-8828

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 45 (7), 8206-8226

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© 2023 Zhu Sun, Hui Fang, J. Yang, Xinghua Qu, Hongyang Liu, Di Yu, Yew Soon Ong, Jie Zhang