scholarly journals Auxiliary Information-Enhanced Recommendations

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (19) ◽  
pp. 8830
Author(s):  
Shoujin Wang ◽  
Wanggen Wan ◽  
Tong Qu ◽  
Yanqiu Dong
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Auxiliary Information ◽  
Recommendation Algorithm ◽  
Textual Information ◽  
Image Information ◽  
Sequential Dependencies ◽  
Recommendation Algorithms ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Real World Datasets

Sequential recommendations have attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. They predict a given user’s next choice of items by mainly modeling the sequential relations over a sequence of the user’s interactions with the items. However, most of the existing sequential recommendation algorithms mainly focus on the sequential dependencies between item IDs within sequences, while ignoring the rich and complex relations embedded in the auxiliary information, such as items’ image information and textual information. Such complex relations can help us better understand users’ preferences towards items, and thus benefit from the recommendations. To bridge this gap, we propose an auxiliary information-enhanced sequential recommendation algorithm called memory fusion network for recommendation (MFN4Rec) to incorporate both items’ image and textual information for sequential recommendations. Accordingly, item IDs, item image information and item textual information are regarded as three modalities. By comprehensively modelling the sequential relations within modalities and interaction relations across modalities, MFN4Rec can learn a more informative representation of users’ preferences for more accurate recommendations. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of MFN4Rec over state-of-the-art sequential recommendation algorithms.

scholarly journals Novel Collaborative Filtering Recommender Friendly to Privacy Protection

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Wang ◽  
Qiang Tang ◽  
Afonso Arriaga ◽  
Peter Y. A. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Privacy Protection ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Huge Amount ◽  
Recommendation Algorithm ◽  
Recommendation Algorithms ◽  
Very Large Datasets ◽  
Recommendation Accuracy ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Indispensable Tool

Nowadays, recommender system is an indispensable tool in many information services, and a large number of algorithms have been designed and implemented. However, fed with very large datasets, state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms often face an efficiency bottleneck, i.e., it takes huge amount of computing resources to train a recommendation model. In order to satisfy the needs of privacy-savvy users who do not want to disclose their information to the service provider, the complexity of most existing solutions becomes prohibitive. As such, it is an interesting research question to design simple and efficient recommendation algorithms that achieve reasonable accuracy and facilitate privacy protection at the same time. In this paper, we propose an efficient recommendation algorithm, named CryptoRec, which has two nice properties: (1) can estimate a new user's preferences by directly using a model pre-learned from an expert dataset, and the new user's data is not required to train the model; (2) can compute recommendations with only addition and multiplication operations. As to the evaluation, we first test the recommendation accuracy on three real-world datasets and show that CryptoRec is competitive with state-of-the-art recommenders. Then, we evaluate the performance of the privacy-preserving variants of CryptoRec and show that predictions can be computed in seconds on a PC. In contrast, existing solutions will need tens or hundreds of hours on more powerful computers.

scholarly journals Understanding Users' Budgets for Recommendation with Hierarchical Poisson Factorization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunhui Guo ◽  
Congfu Xu ◽  
Hanzhang Song ◽  
Xin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Real World ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Generative Model ◽  
Personal Consumption ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Recommendation Algorithms ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Consumption Habits

People consume and rate products in online shopping websites. The historical purchases of customers reflect their personal consumption habits and indicate their future shopping behaviors. Traditional preference-based recommender systems try to provide recommendations by analyzing users' feedback such as ratings and clicks. But unfortunately, most of the existing recommendation algorithms ignore the budget of the users. So they cannot avoid recommending users with products that will exceed their budgets. And they also cannot understand how the users will assign their budgets to different products. In this paper, we develop a generative model named collaborative budget-aware Poisson factorization (CBPF) to connect users' ratings and budgets. The CBPF model is intuitive and highly interpretable. We compare the proposed model with several state-of-the-art budget-unaware recommendation methods on several real-world datasets. The results show the advantage of uncovering users' budgets for recommendation.

scholarly journals A social trust and preference segmentation-based matrix factorization recommendation algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Peng ◽  
Baogui Xin
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Factorization ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
User Preference ◽  
Social Recommendation ◽  
Recommendation Algorithm ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Trust Relationships ◽  
Recommendation Algorithms ◽  
The Difference

AbstractA recommendation can inspire potential demands of users and make e-commerce platforms more intelligent and is essential for e-commerce enterprises’ sustainable development. The traditional social recommendation algorithm ignores the following fact: the preferences of users with trust relationships are not necessarily similar, and the consideration of user preference similarity should be limited to specific areas. To solve these problems mentioned above, we propose a social trust and preference segmentation-based matrix factorization (SPMF) recommendation algorithm. Experimental results based on the Ciao and Epinions datasets show that the accuracy of the SPMF algorithm is significantly superior to that of some state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms. The SPMF algorithm is a better recommendation algorithm based on distinguishing the difference of trust relations and preference domain, which can support commercial activities such as product marketing.

scholarly journals Efficient Heterogeneous Collaborative Filtering without Negative Sampling for Recommendation

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (01) ◽  
pp. 19-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Chen ◽  
Min Zhang ◽  
Yongfeng Zhang ◽  
Weizhi Ma ◽  
Yiqun Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Real World ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Online Systems ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Primary Type

Recent studies on recommendation have largely focused on exploring state-of-the-art neural networks to improve the expressiveness of models, while typically apply the Negative Sampling (NS) strategy for efficient learning. Despite effectiveness, two important issues have not been well-considered in existing methods: 1) NS suffers from dramatic fluctuation, making sampling-based methods difficult to achieve the optimal ranking performance in practical applications; 2) although heterogeneous feedback (e.g., view, click, and purchase) is widespread in many online systems, most existing methods leverage only one primary type of user feedback such as purchase. In this work, we propose a novel non-sampling transfer learning solution, named Efficient Heterogeneous Collaborative Filtering (EHCF) for Top-N recommendation. It can not only model fine-grained user-item relations, but also efficiently learn model parameters from the whole heterogeneous data (including all unlabeled data) with a rather low time complexity. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets show that EHCF significantly outperforms state-of-the-art recommendation methods in both traditional (single-behavior) and heterogeneous scenarios. Moreover, EHCF shows significant improvements in training efficiency, making it more applicable to real-world large-scale systems. Our implementation has been released 1 to facilitate further developments on efficient whole-data based neural methods.

Expert Detection and Recommendation Model With User-Generated Tags in Collaborative Tagging Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 24-45
Author(s):  
Mengmeng Shen ◽  
Jun Wang ◽  
Ou Liu ◽  
Haiying Wang
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Filtering ◽  
Community Detection ◽  
Real World ◽  
Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering ◽  
Collaborative Tagging ◽  
Excellent Performance ◽  
Recommendation Algorithm ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Target User ◽  
Real World Datasets

Tags generated in collaborative tagging systems (CTSs) may help users describe, categorize, search, discover, and navigate content, whereas the difficulty is how to go beyond the information explosion and obtain experts and the required information quickly and accurately. This paper proposes an expert detection and recommendation (EDAR) model based on semantics of tags; the framework consists of community detection and EDAR. Specifically, this paper firstly mines communities based on an improved agglomerative hierarchical clustering (I-AHC) to cluster tags and then presents a community expert detection (CED) algorithm for identifying community experts, and finally, an expert recommendation algorithm is proposed based the improved collaborative filtering (CF) algorithm to recommend relevant experts for the target user. Experiments are carried out on real world datasets, and the results from data experiments and user evaluations have shown that the proposed model can provide excellent performance compared to the benchmark method.

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 EA Reader: Enhance Attentive Reader for Cloze-Style Question Answering via Multi-Space Context Fusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 6375-6382
Author(s):  
Chengzhen Fu ◽  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Unified Model ◽  
Inference Process ◽  
Context Vector ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Semantic Spaces ◽  
Real World Datasets

Query-document semantic interactions are essential for the success of many cloze-style question answering models. Recently, researchers have proposed several attention-based methods to predict the answer by focusing on appropriate subparts of the context document. In this paper, we design a novel module to produce the query-aware context vector, named Multi-Space based Context Fusion (MSCF), with the following considerations: (1) interactions are applied across multiple latent semantic spaces; (2) attention is measured at bit level, not at token level. Moreover, we extend MSCF to the multi-hop architecture. This unified model is called Enhanced Attentive Reader (EA Reader). During the iterative inference process, the reader is equipped with a novel memory update rule and maintains the understanding of documents through read, update and write operations. We conduct extensive experiments on four real-world datasets. Our results demonstrate that EA Reader outperforms state-of-the-art models.

scholarly journals Recommendation Algorithm Based on Knowledge Graph to Propagate User Preference

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhisheng Yang ◽  
Jinyong Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Auxiliary Information ◽  
Substantial Improvement ◽  
User Preference ◽  
Knowledge Graph ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Music Recommendation ◽  
Recommendation Algorithm ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Recommendation Algorithms

Abstract In recommendation algorithms, data sparsity and cold start problems are always inevitable. In order to solve such problems, researchers apply auxiliary information to recommendation algorithms to mine and obtain more potential information through users' historical records and then improve recommendation performance. This paper proposes a model ST_RippleNet, which combines knowledge graph with deep learning. In this model, users' potential interests are mined in the knowledge graph to stimulate the propagation of users' preferences on the set of knowledge entities. In the propagation of preferences, we adopt a triple-based multi-layer attention mechanism, and the distribution of users' preferences for candidate items formed by users' historical click information is used to predict the final click probability. In ST_RippleNet model, music data set is added to the original movie and book data set, and the improved loss function is applied to the model, which is optimized by RMSProp optimizer. Finally, tanh function is added to predict click probability to improve recommendation performance. Compared with the current mainstream recommendation methods, ST_RippleNet recommendation algorithm has very good performance in AUC and ACC, and has substantial improvement in movie, book and music recommendation.

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.

Supervised Convolutional Matrix Factorization for Document Recommendation

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850018
Author(s):  
Huiting Liu ◽  
Chao Ling ◽  
Liangquan Yang ◽  
Peng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Matrix Factorization ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Auxiliary Information ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Information Item ◽  
Item Content ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
Content Information ◽  
Rating Information

Recently, document recommendation has become a very hot research area in online services. Since rating information is usually sparse with exploding growth of the numbers of users and items, conventional collaborative filtering-based methods degrade significantly in recommendation performance. To address this sparseness problem, auxiliary information such as item content information may be utilized. Convolution matrix factorization (ConvMF) is an appealing method, which tightly combines the rating and item content information. Although ConvMF captures contextual information of item content by utilizing convolutional neural network (CNN), the latent representation may not be effective when the rating information is very sparse. To address this problem, we generalize recent advances in supervised CNN and propose a novel recommendation model called supervised convolution matrix factorization (Super-ConvMF), which effectively combines the rating information, item content information and tag information into a unified recommendation framework. Experiments on three real-world datasets, two datasets come from MovieLens and the other one is from Amazon, show our model outperforms the state-of-the-art competitors in terms of the whole range of sparseness.

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