Axiomatic Analysis of Language Modelling of Recommender Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (Suppl. 2) ◽  
pp. 113-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Valcarce ◽  
Javier Parapar ◽  
Álvaro Barreiro
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Cosine Similarity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Axiomatic Analysis ◽  
Likelihood Model ◽  
Language Modelling ◽  
Neighbourhood Algorithm

Language Models constitute an effective framework for text retrieval tasks. Recently, it has been extended to various collaborative filtering tasks. In particular, relevance-based language models can be used for generating highly accurate recommendations using a memory-based approach. On the other hand, the query likelihood model has proven to be a successful strategy for neighbourhood computation. Since relevance-based language models rely on user neighbourhoods for producing recommendations, we propose to use the query likelihood model for computing those neighbourhoods instead of cosine similarity. The combination of both techniques results in a formal probabilistic recommender system which has not been used before in collaborative filtering. A thorough evaluation on three datasets shows that the query likelihood model provides better results than cosine similarity. To understand this improvement, we devise two properties that a good neighbourhood algorithm should satisfy. Our axiomatic analysis shows that the query likelihood model always enforces those constraints while cosine similarity does not.

scholarly journals A Movie Recommendation System Based on A Convolutional Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 1445-1455
Author(s):  
Jyoti Kumari
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Cosine Similarity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Effort ◽  
Movie Recommendation ◽  
Content Based Filtering

Abstract: Due to its vast applications in several sectors, the recommender system has gotten a lot of interest and has been investigated by academics in recent years. The ability to comprehend and apply the context of recommendation requests is critical to the success of any current recommender system. Nowadays, the suggestion system makes it simple to locate the items we require. Movie recommendation systems are intended to assist movie fans by advising which movie to see without needing users to go through the time-consuming and complicated method of selecting a film from a large number of thousands or millions of options. The goal of this research is to reduce human effort by recommending movies based on the user's preferences. This paper introduces a method for a movie recommendation system based on a convolutional neural network with individual features layers of users and movies performed by analyzing user activity and proposing higher-rated films to them. The proposed CNN approach on the MovieLens-1m dataset outperforms the other conventional approaches and gives accurate recommendation results. Keywords: Recommender system, convolutional neural network, movielens-1m, cosine similarity, Collaborative filtering, content-based filtering.

scholarly journals Recommender system for surplus stock clearance

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 3813
Author(s):  
Vipul Agarwal ◽  
Vijayalakshmi A
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Cosine Similarity ◽  
Similarity Metrics ◽  
Manual Work ◽  
Similarity Metric ◽  
Filtering Technique ◽  
Retail Shop ◽  
Item Item

Accumulation of the stock had been a major concern for retail shop owners. Surplus stock could be minimized if the system could continuously monitor the accumulated stock and recommend the stock which requires clearance. Recommender Systems computes the data, shadowing the manual work and give efficient recommendations to overcome stock accumulation, creating space for new stock for sale to enhance the profit in business. An intelligent recommender system was built that could work with the data and help the shop owners to overcome the issue of surplus stock in a remarkable way. An item-item collaborative filtering technique with Pearson similarity metric was used to draw the similarity between the items and accordingly give recommendations. The results obtained on the dataset highlighted the top-N items using the Pearson similarity and the Cosine similarity. The items having the highest rank had the highest accumulation and required attention to be cleared. The comparison is drawn for the precision and recall obtained by the similarity metrics used. The evaluation of the existing work was done using precision and recall, where the precision obtained was remarkable, while the recall has the scope of increment but in turn, it would reduce the value of precision. Thus, there lies a scope of reducing the stock accumulation with the help of a recommender system and overcome losses to maximize profit

Modelling trust networks using resistive circuits for trust-aware recommender systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Hosseinzadeh Aghdam ◽  
Morteza Analoui ◽  
Peyman Kabiri
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Item Selection ◽  
Trust Networks ◽  
Trust Inference ◽  
Trust Information

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.

scholarly journals A New Similarity Measure for User-based Collaborative Filtering in Recommender Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 6118-6128 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Srikanth ◽  
M. Shashi
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Distance Measure ◽  
Current User ◽  
Challenging Problem ◽  
Popular Approach ◽  
Similarity Calculation

Collaborative filtering is a popular approach in recommender Systems that helps users in identifying the items they may like in a wagon of items. Finding similarity among users with the available item ratings so as to predict rating(s) for unseen item(s) based on the preferences of likeminded users for the current user is a challenging problem. Traditional measures like Cosine similarity and Pearson correlation’s correlation exhibit some drawbacks in similarity calculation. This paper presents a new similarity measure which improves the performance of Recommender System. Experimental results on MovieLens dataset show that our proposed distance measure improves the quality of prediction. We present clustering results as an extension to validate the effectiveness of our proposed method.

scholarly journals Syn Rec: A Prediction Technique using Collaborative Filtering and Synergy Score

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5S3) ◽  
pp. 457-463
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Effective Technique ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Trust Relation ◽  
Prediction Technique ◽  
User Trust

Recommender systems are techniques designed to produce personalized recommendations. Data sparsity, scalability cold start and quality of prediction are some of the problems faced by a recommender system. Traditional recommender systems consider that all the users are independent and identical, its an assumption which leads to a total ignorance of social interactions and trust among user. Trust relation among users ease the work of recommender systems to produce better quality of recommendations. In this paper, an effective technique is proposed using trust factor extracted with help of ratings given so that quality can be improved and better predictions can be done. A novel-technique has been proposed for recommender system using film-trust dataset and its effectiveness has been justified with the help of experiments.

scholarly journals Crop Recommender System for the Farmers using Mamdani Fuzzy Inference Model

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.15) ◽  
pp. 277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhusree Kuanr ◽  
Bikram Kesari Rath ◽  
Sachi Nandan Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Fuzzy Logic ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Similarity Measure ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Fuzzy Inference ◽  
Weather Condition ◽  
Cosine Similarity ◽  
Inference Model ◽  
Large Pool ◽  
Cosine Similarity Measure

Recommender systems provide suggestions to the users for choosing particular items from a large pool of items. The purpose of this study is to design a collaborative recommender system for the farmers for recommending giving prior idea regarding a crop which is suitable according to the location of the farmer based on weather condition of the previous months. The proposed system also recommends other seeds, pesticides and instruments according to the preferences in farming and location of the farmers while purchasing the seeds through online. It uses cosine similarity measure to find the similar user according the location of the farmer and fuzzy logic for predicting the yield of rice crop for Kharif season in state Odisha, India. The proposed system is implemented in Mamdani Fuzzy Inference model. The results reveal that it provides prior idea regarding a crop before sowing of seeds.  

scholarly journals A study of neighbour selection strategies for POI recommendation in LBSNs

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (6) ◽  
pp. 802-817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Rios ◽  
Silvia Schiaffino ◽  
Daniela Godoy
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Good Prediction ◽  
General Terms ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Filtering Approach

Location-based recommender systems (LBRSs) are gaining importance with the proliferation of location-based services provided by mobile devices as well as user-generated content in social networks. Collaborative approaches for recommendation rely on the opinions of like-minded people, so-called neighbours, for prediction. Thus, an adequate selection of such neighbours becomes essential for achieving good prediction results. The aim of this work is to explore different strategies to select neighbours in the context of a collaborative filtering–based recommender system for POI (places of interest) recommendations. Whereas standard methods are based on user similarity to delimit a neighbourhood, in this work several strategies are proposed based on direct social relationships and geographical information extracted from location-based social networks (LBSNs). The impact of the different strategies proposed has been evaluated and compared against the traditional collaborative filtering approach using a dataset from a popular network as Foursquare. In general terms, the proposed strategies for selecting neighbours based on the different elements available in a LBSN achieve better results than the traditional collaborative filtering approach. Our findings can be helpful both to researchers in the recommender systems area and to recommender system developers in the context of LBSNs, since they can take into account our results to design and provide more effective services considering the huge amount of knowledge produced in LBSNs.

An Effective Recommender System Based on Clustering Technique for TED Talks

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faiz Maazouzi ◽  
Hafed Zarzour ◽  
Yaser Jararweh
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Powerful Mechanism ◽  
Ted Talks

With the enormous amount of information circulating on the Web, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find the necessary and useful information quickly and efficiently. However, with the emergence of recommender systems in the 1990s, reducing information overload became easy. In the last few years, many recommender systems employ the collaborative filtering technology, which has been proven to be one of the most successful techniques in recommender systems. Nowadays, the latest generation of collaborative filtering methods still requires further improvements to make the recommendations more efficient and accurate. Therefore, the objective of this article is to propose a new effective recommender system for TED talks that first groups users according to their preferences, and then provides a powerful mechanism to improve the quality of recommendations for users. In this context, the authors used the Pearson Correlation Coefficient (PCC) method and TED talks to create the TED user-user matrix. Then, they used the k-means clustering method to group the same users in clusters and create a predictive model. Finally, they used this model to make relevant recommendations to other users. The experimental results on real dataset show that their approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of RMSE, precision, recall, and F1 scores.

Multi-Criteria Recommender Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 20-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdaous Hdioud ◽  
Bouchra Frikh ◽  
Brahim Ouhbi ◽  
Ismail Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Selection Method ◽  
Item Selection ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Selection Approach ◽  
Comprehensive Study

A Recommender System (RS) works much better for users when it has more information. In Collaborative Filtering, where users' preferences are expressed as ratings, the more ratings elicited, the more accurate the recommendations. New users present a big challenge for a RS, which has to providing content fitting their preferences. Generally speaking, such problems are tackled by applying Active Learning (AL) strategies that consist on a brief interview with the new user, during which she is asked to give feedback about a set selected items. This article presents a comprehensive study of the most important techniques used to handle this issue focusing on AL techniques. The authors then propose a novel item selection approach, based on Multi-Criteria ratings and a method of computing weights of criteria inspired by a multi-criteria decision making approach. This selection method is deployed to learn new users' profiles, to identify the reasons behind which items are deemed to be relevant compared to the rest items in the dataset.

A Hybrid Document Recommender Algorithm Based on Random Walk

2013 ◽  
Vol 336-338 ◽  
pp. 2270-2276
Author(s):  
Zhi Ping Zhang ◽  
Lin Na Li ◽  
Hai Yan Yu
Keyword(s):  
Random Walk ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Target Item ◽  
The Other ◽  
National Science ◽  
Recommender Algorithm ◽  
Valuable Service ◽  
Cold Start Problem

Research shows that recommendations comprise a valuable service for users of a digital library. We proposed a hybrid document recommender system based on random walk. It builds correlation network among users based on the conditional probability in order to solve the sparsity of collaborative filtering. On the other hand, it computes the rating of source user for target item not only based on the neighborhoods’ ratings for target item but also based on the neighborhoods’ ratings for item which is most similar to target item. This can solve the cold start problem of recommender systems. We performed an evaluation on the dataset of National Science and Technology Library. Experimental results illustrate the superiority of the proposed method.

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