Matrix-Completion-Based Method for Cold-Start of Distributed Recommender Systems

Author(s):  
Bo Pan ◽  
Shu-Tao Xia
Author(s):  
Jiani Zhang ◽  
Xingjian Shi ◽  
Shenglin Zhao ◽  
Irwin King

We propose a new STAcked and Reconstructed Graph Convolutional Networks (STAR-GCN) architecture to learn node representations for boosting the performance in recommender systems, especially in the cold start scenario. STAR-GCN employs a stack of GCN encoder-decoders combined with intermediate supervision to improve the final prediction performance. Unlike the graph convolutional matrix completion model with one-hot encoding node inputs, our STAR-GCN learns low-dimensional user and item latent factors as the input to restrain the model space complexity. Moreover, our STAR-GCN can produce node embeddings for new nodes by reconstructing masked input node embeddings, which essentially tackles the cold start problem. Furthermore, we discover a label leakage issue when training GCN-based models for link prediction tasks and propose a training strategy to avoid the issue. Empirical results on multiple rating prediction benchmarks demonstrate our model achieves state-of-the-art performance in four out of five real-world datasets and significant improvements in predicting ratings in the cold start scenario. The code implementation is available in https://github.com/jennyzhang0215/STAR-GCN.


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.


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