A user-item relevance model for log-based collaborative filtering

Conference Paper (2006)
Author(s)

J Wang (TU Delft - Multimedia Computing)

AP de Vries (TU Delft - Multimedia Computing)

MJT Reinders (TU Delft - Multimedia Computing)

Research Group
Multimedia Computing
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Publication Year
2006
Research Group
Multimedia Computing
Pages (from-to)
37-48
Publisher
Springer

Abstract

.Implicitacquisitionofuserpreferencesmakeslog-basedcollaborative¿lteringfavorableinpracticetoaccomplishrecommendations.Inthispaper,wefollowaformalapproachintextretrievaltore-formulatetheproblem.Basedontheclassicprobabilityrankingprinciple,weproposeaprobabilisticuser-itemrelevancemodel.Underthisformalmodel,weshowthatuser-basedanditem-basedapproachesareonlytwodi¿erentfactorizationswithdi¿erentindependenceassumptions.Moreover,weshowthatsmoothingisanimportantaspecttoestimatetheparametersofthemodelsduetodatasparsity.Byaddinglinearinterpolationsmoothing,theproposedmodelgivesaprobabilisticjusti¿cationofusingTF×IDF-likeitemrankingincollaborative¿ltering.Besidesgivingtheinsightunderstandingoftheproblemofcollaborative¿ltering,wealsoshowexperimentsinwhichtheproposedmethodprovidesabetterrecommendationperformanceonamusicplay-listdataset.

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