scholarly journals Addressing Cold Start New User in Recommender System Based on Hybrid Approach: A review and bibliometric analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Nasy`an Taufiq Al Ghifari ◽  
Benhard Sitohang ◽  
Gusti Ayu Putri Saptawati
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Hybrid Methods ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
System Research ◽  
Hybrid Techniques ◽  
Social Network Data ◽  
Internet Users

Increasing number of internet users today, the use of e-commerce becomes a very vital need. One of the keys that holds the success of the e-commerce system is the recommendation system. Collaborative filtering is the popular method of recommendation system. However, collaborative filtering still has issues including data sparsity, cold start, gray sheep, and dynamic taste. Some studies try to solve the issue with hybrid methods that use a combination of several techniques. One of the studies tried to solve the problem by building 7 blocks of hybrid techniques with various approaches. However, the study still has some problems left. In the case of cold start new users, actually, the method in the study has handled it with matrix factorizer block and item weight. But it will produce the same results for all users so that the resulting personalization is still lacking. This study aims to map an overview of the themes of recommendation system research that utilizes bibliometric analysis to assess the performance of scientific articles while exposing solution opportunities to cold start problems in the recommendation system. The results of the analysis showed that cold start problems can be solved by utilizing social network data and graph approaches.

scholarly journals Applying uncertainty reduction strategy for improving performance of questionnaire technique of solving cold user problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-53
Author(s):  
M. Abubakar ◽  
K. Umar
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
New Product ◽  
Uncertainty Reduction ◽  
Experimental Result ◽  
Reduction Strategy ◽  
Product Recommendation

Product recommendation systems are information filtering systems that uses ratings and predictions to make new product suggestions. There are many product recommendation system techniques in existence, these include collaborative filtering, content based filtering, knowledge based filtering, utility based filtering and demographic based filtering. Collaborative filtering techniques is known to be the most popular product recommendation system technique. It utilizes user’s previous product ratings to make new product suggestions. However collaborative filtering have some weaknesses, which include cold start, grey sheep issue, synonyms issue. However the major weakness of collaborative filtering approaches is cold user problem. Cold user problem is the failure of product recommendation systems to make product suggestions for new users. Literature investigation had shown that cold user problem could be effectively addressed using active learning technique of administering personalized questionnaire. Unfortunately, the result of personalized questionnaire technique could contain some user preference uncertainties where the product database is too large (as in Amazon). This research work addresses the weakness of personalized questionnaire technique by applying uncertainty reduction strategy to improve the result obtained from administering personalized questionnaire. In our experimental design we perform four different experiments; Personalized questionnaire approach of solving user based coldstart was implemented using Movielens dataset of 1M size, Personalized questionnaire approach of solving user based cold start was implemented using Movielens dataset of 10M size, Personalized questionnaire with uncertainty reduction was implemented using Movielens dataset of 1M size, and also Personalized  questionnaire with uncertainty reduction was implemented using Movielens dataset of 10M size. The experimental result shows RMSE, Precision and Recall improvement of 0.21, 0.17 and 0.18 respectively in 1M dataset and 0.17, 0.14 and 0.20 in 10M dataset respectively over personalized questionnaire.

scholarly journals Personalized Suggestion For Music Based On Collaborative Filtering

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (05) ◽  
pp. 25047-25051
Author(s):  
Aniket Salunke ◽  
Ruchika Kukreja ◽  
Jayesh Kharche ◽  
Amit Nerurkar
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Music Recommendation ◽  
User Similarity ◽  
Content Based Filtering ◽  
Music Recommendation System ◽  
Cold Start Problem

With the advancement of technology there are millions of songs available on the internet and this creates problem for a person to choose from this vast pool of songs. So, there should be some middleman who must do this task on behalf of user and present most relevant songs that perfectly fits the user’s taste. This task is done by recommendation system. Music recommendation system predicts the user liking towards a particular song based on the listening history and profile. Most of the music recommendation system available today will give most recently played song or songs which have overall highest rating as suggestions to users but these suggestions are not personalized. The paper purposes how the recommendation systems can be used to give personalized suggestions to each and every user with the help of collaborative filtering which uses user similarity to give suggestions. The paper aims at implementing this idea and solving the cold start problem using content based filtering at the start.

scholarly journals A Hybrid Ontology-Based Recommendation System in e-Commerce

Algorithms ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Márcio Guia ◽  
Rodrigo Rocha Silva ◽  
Jorge Bernardino
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Experimental Evaluation ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Knowledge Engineering ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Active User ◽  
Expensive Process

The growth of the Internet has increased the amount of data and information available to any person at any time. Recommendation Systems help users find the items that meet their preferences, among the large number of items available. Techniques such as collaborative filtering and content-based recommenders have played an important role in the implementation of recommendation systems. In the last few years, other techniques, such as, ontology-based recommenders, have gained significance when reffering better active user recommendations; however, building an ontology-based recommender is an expensive process, which requires considerable skills in Knowledge Engineering. This paper presents a new hybrid approach that combines the simplicity of collaborative filtering with the efficiency of the ontology-based recommenders. The experimental evaluation demonstrates that the proposed approach presents higher quality recommendations when compared to collaborative filtering. The main improvement is verified on the results regarding the products, which, in spite of belonging to unknown categories to the users, still match their preferences and become recommended.

Rec-CFSVD++: Implementing Recommendation System Using Collaborative Filtering and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)++

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Taushif Anwar ◽  
V. Uma ◽  
Gautam Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Singular Value Decomposition ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Error Rate ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Recommendation Systems ◽  
Matrix Decomposition ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
Singular Value ◽  
Decomposition Approach ◽  
Value Decomposition

In recommender systems, Collaborative Filtering (CF) plays an essential role in promoting recommendation services. The conventional CF approach has limitations, namely data sparsity and cold-start. The matrix decomposition approach is demonstrated to be one of the effective approaches used in developing recommendation systems. This paper presents a new approach that uses CF and Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)[Formula: see text] for implementing a recommendation system. Therefore, this work is an attempt to extend the existing recommendation systems by (i) finding similarity between user and item from rating matrices using cosine similarity; (ii) predicting missing ratings using a matrix decomposition approach, and (iii) recommending top-N user-preferred items. The recommender system’s performance is evaluated considering Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE). Performance evaluation is accomplished by comparing the systems developed using CF in combination with six different algorithms, namely SVD, SVD[Formula: see text], Co-Clustering, KNNBasic, KNNBaseline, and KNNWithMeans. We have experimented using MovieLens 100[Formula: see text]K, MovieLens 1[Formula: see text]M, and BookCrossing datasets. The results prove that the proposed approach gives a lesser error rate when cross-validation ([Formula: see text]) is performed. The experimental results show that the lowest error rate is achieved with MovieLens 100[Formula: see text]K dataset ([Formula: see text], [Formula: see text]). The proposed approach also alleviates the sparsity and cold-start problems and recommends the relevant items.

scholarly journals Enhancing Traditional Recommender Systems via Social Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (01) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Leschek Homann ◽  
Denis Mayr Lima Martins ◽  
Gottfried Vossen ◽  
Karsten Kraume
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Social Information ◽  
User Profile ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Social Network Data ◽  
Business Applications ◽  
Flexible Architecture ◽  
Cold Start Problem

Collaborative Filtering (CF) has become the most popular approach for developing Recommender Systems in diverse business applications. Unfortunately, problems such as the cold-start problem (i.e., new users or items enter the system and for those no previous preference information is available) and the gray sheep problem (i.e., cases in which a user profile does not match any other profile in the user community) are widely recognized for hindering recommendation effectiveness of traditional CF methods. To alleviate such problems, substantial research has focused on enhancing CF with social information about users (e.g., social relationships and communities). However, despite the crescent interest in social-based approaches, researches and practitioners face the challenge of developing their own Recommender System architecture for appropriately combining social and collaborative filtering methods to improve recommendation results. In this paper, we address this issue by introducing a flexible architecture to support researchers and practitioners in the task of designing real-world Recommender Systems that exploit social network data. We focus on detailing our proposed architecture modules and their interplay, potential algorithms for extracting and combining relevant social information, and candidate technologies for handling diverse and massive data volumes. Additionally, we provide an empirical analysis demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed architecture on alleviating the cold-start problem over a concrete experimental case.

Genetic Algorithm Influenced Top-N Recommender System to Alleviate New User Cold Start Problem

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
Sharon Moses J. ◽  
Dhinesh Babu L.D.
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Recommendation System ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Cold Start ◽  
Filtering Algorithm ◽  
Collaborative Filtering Algorithm ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Cold Start Problem

Most recommender systems are based on the familiar collaborative filtering algorithm to suggest items. Quite often, collaborative filtering algorithm fails in generating recommendations due to the lack of adequate user information resulting in new user cold start problem. The cold start problem is one among the prevailing issue in recommendation system where the system fails to render recommendations. To overcome the new user cold start issue, demographical information of the user is utilised as the user information source. Among the demographical information, the impact of the user gender is less explored when compared with other information like age, profession, region, etc. In this work, a genetic algorithm-influenced gender-based top-n recommender algorithm is proposed to address the new user cold start problem. The algorithm utilises the evolution concepts of the genetic algorithm to render top-n recommendations to a new user. The evaluation of the proposed algorithm using real world datasets proved that the algorithm has a better efficiency than the state of art approaches.

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