scholarly journals Disentangled Item Representation for Recommender Systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Zeyu Cui ◽  
Feng Yu ◽  
Shu Wu ◽  
Qiang Liu ◽  
Liang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Side Information ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Latent Vector ◽  
Attribute Information ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Item Representation

Item representations in recommendation systems are expected to reveal the properties of items. Collaborative recommender methods usually represent an item as one single latent vector. Nowadays the e-commercial platforms provide various kinds of attribute information for items (e.g., category, price, and style of clothing). Utilizing this attribute information for better item representations is popular in recent years. Some studies use the given attribute information as side information, which is concatenated with the item latent vector to augment representations. However, the mixed item representations fail to fully exploit the rich attribute information or provide explanation in recommender systems. To this end, we propose a fine-grained Disentangled Item Representation (DIR) for recommender systems in this article, where the items are represented as several separated attribute vectors instead of a single latent vector. In this way, the items are represented at the attribute level, which can provide fine-grained information of items in recommendation. We introduce a learning strategy, LearnDIR, which can allocate the corresponding attribute vectors to items. We show how DIR can be applied to two typical models, Matrix Factorization (MF) and Recurrent Neural Network (RNN). Experimental results on two real-world datasets show that the models developed under the framework of DIR are effective and efficient. Even using fewer parameters, the proposed model can outperform the state-of-the-art methods, especially in the cold-start situation. In addition, we make visualizations to show that our proposition can provide explanation for users in real-world applications.

scholarly journals Attention Enhanced Serial Unet++ Network for Removing Unevenly Distributed Haze

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 2868
Author(s):  
Wenxuan Zhao ◽  
Yaqin Zhao ◽  
Liqi Feng ◽  
Jiaxi Tang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Real World ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Image Dehazing ◽  
Atmospheric Scattering ◽  
Real World Datasets

The purpose of image dehazing is the reduction of the image degradation caused by suspended particles for supporting high-level visual tasks. Besides the atmospheric scattering model, convolutional neural network (CNN) has been used for image dehazing. However, the existing image dehazing algorithms are limited in face of unevenly distributed haze and dense haze in real-world scenes. In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end convolutional neural network called attention enhanced serial Unet++ dehazing network (AESUnet) for single image dehazing. We attempt to build a serial Unet++ structure that adopts a serial strategy of two pruned Unet++ blocks based on residual connection. Compared with the simple Encoder–Decoder structure, the serial Unet++ module can better use the features extracted by encoders and promote contextual information fusion in different resolutions. In addition, we take some improvement measures to the Unet++ module, such as pruning, introducing the convolutional module with ResNet structure, and a residual learning strategy. Thus, the serial Unet++ module can generate more realistic images with less color distortion. Furthermore, following the serial Unet++ blocks, an attention mechanism is introduced to pay different attention to haze regions with different concentrations by learning weights in the spatial domain and channel domain. Experiments are conducted on two representative datasets: the large-scale synthetic dataset RESIDE and the small-scale real-world datasets I-HAZY and O-HAZY. The experimental results show that the proposed dehazing network is not only comparable to state-of-the-art methods for the RESIDE synthetic datasets, but also surpasses them by a very large margin for the I-HAZY and O-HAZY real-world dataset.

SOCIAL INTEREST FOR USER SELECTING ITEMS IN RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (04) ◽  
pp. 1350022 ◽  
Author(s):  
DA-CHENG NIE ◽  
MING-JING DING ◽  
YAN FU ◽  
JUN-LIN ZHOU ◽  
ZI-KE ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Simple Method ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
Similarity Computation ◽  
Real World Datasets

Recommender systems have developed rapidly and successfully. The system aims to help users find relevant items from a potentially overwhelming set of choices. However, most of the existing recommender algorithms focused on the traditional user-item similarity computation, other than incorporating the social interests into the recommender systems. As we know, each user has their own preference field, they may influence their friends' preference in their expert field when considering the social interest on their friends' item collecting. In order to model this social interest, in this paper, we proposed a simple method to compute users' social interest on the specific items in the recommender systems, and then integrate this social interest with similarity preference. The experimental results on two real-world datasets Epinions and Friendfeed show that this method can significantly improve not only the algorithmic precision-accuracy but also the diversity-accuracy.

scholarly journals Discrete Trust-aware Matrix Factorization for Fast Recommendation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guibing Guo ◽  
Enneng Yang ◽  
Li Shen ◽  
Xiaochun Yang ◽  
Xiaodong He
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Real World ◽  
Matrix Factorization ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Hamming Space ◽  
Real World Datasets

Trust-aware recommender systems have received much attention recently for their abilities to capture the influence among connected users. However, they suffer from the efficiency issue due to large amount of data and time-consuming real-valued operations. Although existing discrete collaborative filtering may alleviate this issue to some extent, it is unable to accommodate social influence. In this paper we propose a discrete trust-aware matrix factorization (DTMF) model to take dual advantages of both social relations and discrete technique for fast recommendation. Specifically, we map the latent representation of users and items into a joint hamming space by recovering the rating and trust interactions between users and items. We adopt a sophisticated discrete coordinate descent (DCD) approach to optimize our proposed model. In addition, experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our approach against other state-of-the-art approaches in terms of ranking accuracy and efficiency.

scholarly journals Does Every Data Instance Matter? Enhancing Sequential Recommendation by Eliminating Unreliable Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yatong Sun ◽  
Bin Wang ◽  
Zhu Sun ◽  
Xiaochun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Gaussian Distribution ◽  
Real World ◽  
Sequential Pattern ◽  
High Loss ◽  
Real World Datasets

Most sequential recommender systems (SRSs) predict next-item as target for each user given its preceding items as input, assuming that each input is related to its target. However, users may unintentionally click on items that are inconsistent with their preference. We empirically verify that SRSs can be misguided with such unreliable instances (i.e. targets mismatch inputs). This inspires us to design a novel SRS By Eliminating unReliable Data (BERD) guided with two observations: (1) unreliable instances generally have high training loss; and (2) high-loss instances are not necessarily unreliable but uncertain ones caused by blurry sequential pattern. Accordingly, BERD models both loss and uncertainty of each instance via a Gaussian distribution to better distinguish unreliable instances; meanwhile an uncertainty-aware graph convolution network is exploited to assist in mining unreliable instances by lowering uncertainty. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed BERD.

scholarly journals Exploring Periodicity and Interactivity in Multi-Interest Framework for Sequential Recommendation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gaode Chen ◽  
Xinghua Zhang ◽  
Yanyan Zhao ◽  
Cong Xue ◽  
Ji Xiang
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Interest Representation ◽  
Novel Method ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Item Representation ◽  
Global And Local

Sequential recommendation systems alleviate the problem of information overload, and have attracted increasing attention in the literature. Most prior works usually obtain an overall representation based on the user’s behavior sequence, which can not sufficiently reflect the multiple interests of the user. To this end, we propose a novel method called PIMI to mitigate this issue. PIMI can model the user’s multi-interest representation effectively by considering both the periodicity and interactivity in the item sequence. Specifically, we design a periodicity-aware module to utilize the time interval information between user’s behaviors. Meanwhile, an ingenious graph is proposed to enhance the interactivity between items in user’s behavior sequence, which can capture both global and local item features. Finally, a multi-interest extraction module is applied to describe user’s multiple interests based on the obtained item representation. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets Amazon and Taobao show that PIMI outperforms state-of-the-art methods consistently.

scholarly journals Experimental Analysis of Friend-And-Native Based Location Awareness for Accurate Collaborative Filtering

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 2510
Author(s):  
Aaron Ling Chi Yi ◽  
Dae-Ki Kang
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Experimental Analysis ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Research Communities ◽  
Current Location ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Filtering Approach

Location-based recommender systems have gained a lot of attention in both commercial domains and research communities where there are various approaches that have shown great potential for further studies. However, there has been little attention in previous research on location-based recommender systems for generating recommendations considering the locations of target users. Such recommender systems sometimes recommend places that are far from the target user’s current location. In this paper, we explore the issues of generating location recommendations for users who are traveling overseas by taking into account the user’s social influence and also the native or local expert’s knowledge. Accordingly, we have proposed a collaborative filtering recommendation framework called the Friend-And-Native-Aware Approach for Collaborative Filtering (FANA-CF), to generate reasonable location recommendations for users. We have validated our approach by systematic and extensive experiments using real-world datasets collected from Foursquare TM. By comparing algorithms such as the collaborative filtering approach (item-based collaborative filtering and user-based collaborative filtering) and the personalized mean approach, we have shown that our proposed approach has slightly outperformed the conventional collaborative filtering approach and personalized mean approach.

scholarly journals DMRAN:A Hierarchical Fine-Grained Attention-Based Network for Recommendation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huizhao Wang ◽  
Guanfeng Liu ◽  
An Liu ◽  
Zhixu Li ◽  
Kai Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Item Level ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Time Encoding ◽  
Real World Datasets

The conventional methods for the next-item recommendation are generally based on RNN or one- dimensional attention with time encoding. They are either hard to preserve the long-term dependencies between different interactions, or hard to capture fine-grained user preferences. In this paper, we propose a Double Most Relevant Attention Network (DMRAN) that contains two layers, i.e., Item level Attention and Feature Level Self- attention, which are to pick out the most relevant items from the sequence of user’s historical behaviors, and extract the most relevant aspects of relevant items, respectively. Then, we can capture the fine-grained user preferences to better support the next-item recommendation. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets illustrate that DMRAN can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the recommendation compared with the state-of-the-art methods.

Matrix factorization completed multicontext data for tensor-enhanced recommendation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Shangju Deng ◽  
Jiwei Qin
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Matrix Factorization ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
High Dimensional ◽  
Satisfactory Performance ◽  
Interactive Data ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Item Data

Tensors have been explored to share latent user-item relations and have been shown to be effective for recommendation. Tensors suffer from sparsity and cold start problems in real recommendation scenarios; therefore, researchers and engineers usually use matrix factorization to address these issues and improve the performance of recommender systems. In this paper, we propose matrix factorization completed multicontext data for tensor-enhanced algorithm a using matrix factorization combined with a multicontext data method for tensor-enhanced recommendation. To take advantage of existing user-item data, we add the context time and trust to enrich the interactive data via matrix factorization. In addition, Our approach is a high-dimensional tensor framework that further mines the latent relations from the user-item-trust-time tensor to improve recommendation performance. Through extensive experiments on real-world datasets, we demonstrated the superiority of our approach in predicting user preferences. This method is also shown to be able to maintain satisfactory performance even if user-item interactions are sparse.

scholarly journals Cross-Domain Recommendation via Coupled Factorization Machines

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 9965-9966 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lile Li ◽  
Quan Do ◽  
Wei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Latent Factors ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Coupled Mode ◽  
Cross Domain ◽  
Factorization Machine ◽  
Real World Datasets

Data across many business domains can be represented by two or more coupled data sets. Correlations among these coupled datasets have been studied in the literature for making more accurate cross-domain recommender systems. However, in existing methods, cross-domain recommendations mostly assume the coupled mode of data sets share identical latent factors, which limits the discovery of potentially useful domain-specific properties of the original data. In this paper, we proposed a novel cross-domain recommendation method called Coupled Factorization Machine (CoFM) that addresses this limitation. Compared to existing models, our research is the first model that uses factorization machines to capture both common characteristics of coupled domains while simultaneously preserving the differences among them. Our experiments with real-world datasets confirm the advantages of our method in making across-domain recommendations.

scholarly journals HERS: Modeling Influential Contexts with Heterogeneous Relations for Sparse and Cold-Start Recommendation

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 3830-3837 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liang Hu ◽  
Songlei Jian ◽  
Longbing Cao ◽  
Zhiping Gu ◽  
Qingkui Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Real World ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
Data Sparsity ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Item Item ◽  
Cold Start Problem

Classic recommender systems face challenges in addressing the data sparsity and cold-start problems with only modeling the user-item relation. An essential direction is to incorporate and understand the additional heterogeneous relations, e.g., user-user and item-item relations, since each user-item interaction is often influenced by other users and items, which form the user’s/item’s influential contexts. This induces important yet challenging issues, including modeling heterogeneous relations, interactions, and the strength of the influence from users/items in the influential contexts. To this end, we design Influential-Context Aggregation Units (ICAU) to aggregate the user-user/item-item relations within a given context as the influential context embeddings. Accordingly, we propose a Heterogeneous relations-Embedded Recommender System (HERS) based on ICAUs to model and interpret the underlying motivation of user-item interactions by considering user-user and item-item influences. The experiments on two real-world datasets show the highly improved recommendation quality made by HERS and its superiority in handling the cold-start problem. In addition, we demonstrate the interpretability of modeling influential contexts in explaining the recommendation results.

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