scholarly journals Using Multi-armed Bandit to Solve Cold-Start Problems in Recommender Systems at Telco

Author(s):  
Hai Thanh Nguyen ◽  
Anders Kofod-Petersen
2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Aghdam ◽  
Morteza Analoui ◽  
Peyman Kabiri

Recommender systems have been widely used for predicting unknown ratings. Collaborative filtering as a recommendation technique uses known ratings for predicting user preferences in the item selection. However, current collaborative filtering methods cannot distinguish malicious users from unknown users. Also, they have serious drawbacks in generating ratings for cold-start users. Trust networks among recommender systems have been proved beneficial to improve the quality and number of predictions. This paper proposes an improved trust-aware recommender system that uses resistive circuits for trust inference. This method uses trust information to produce personalized recommendations. The result of evaluating the proposed method on Epinions dataset shows that this method can significantly improve the accuracy of recommender systems while not reducing the coverage of recommender systems.


Author(s):  
Navin Tatyaba Gopal ◽  
Anish Raj Khobragade

The Knowledge graphs (KGs) catches structured data and relationships among a bunch of entities and items. Generally, constitute an attractive origin of information that can advance the recommender systems. But, present methodologies of this area depend on manual element thus don’t permit for start to end training. This article proposes, Knowledge Graph along with Label Smoothness (KG-LS) to offer better suggestions for the recommender Systems. Our methodology processes user-specific entities by prior application of a function capability that recognizes key KG-relationships for a specific user. In this manner, we change the KG in a specific-user weighted graph followed by application of a graph neural network to process customized entity embedding. To give better preliminary predisposition, label smoothness comes into picture, which places items in the KG which probably going to have identical user significant names/scores. Use of, label smoothness gives regularization above the edge weights thus; we demonstrate that it is comparable to a label propagation plan on the graph. Additionally building-up a productive usage that symbolizes solid adaptability concerning the size of knowledge graph. Experimentation on 4 datasets shows that our strategy beats best in class baselines. This process likewise accomplishes solid execution in cold start situations where user-entity communications remain meager.


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 2065-2073 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blerina Lika ◽  
Kostas Kolomvatsos ◽  
Stathes Hadjiefthymiades

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