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48 results for user-item rating matrix

We develop a Bayesian Poisson matrix factorization model for forming recommendations from sparse user behavior data. These data are large user/item matrices where each user has provided feedback on only a small subset of items, either explicitly (e.g., through star ratings) or implicitly (e.g., through views or purchas…

2013-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

A method learns matrix factorization from diverse matrices and applies the knowledge to unseen matrices.

problem Matrix factorization without shared rows or columns.
method Neural network meta-learned to minimize expected imputation error using MAP estimation.
result The method can impute missing values from unseen matrices efficiently.

Matrix completion models are among the most common formulations of recommender systems. Recent works have showed a boost of performance of these techniques when introducing the pairwise relationships between users/items in the form of graphs, and imposing smoothness priors on these graphs. However, such techniques do n…

2017-04-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Recommender System research suffers currently from a disconnect between the size of academic data sets and the scale of industrial production systems. In order to bridge that gap we propose to generate more massive user/item interaction data sets by expanding pre-existing public data sets. User/item incidence matrices …

2019-01-23abs ↗pdf ↗

CGM combines SSL and LFM for better recommendation performance.

problem Label sparsity in user-item rating matrices limits LFM performance.
method Probabilistic chain graph model (CGM) integrating Bayesian network and Markov random field.
result CGM significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in recommendation.

We consider matrix completion for recommender systems from the point of view of link prediction on graphs. Interaction data such as movie ratings can be represented by a bipartite user-item graph with labeled edges denoting observed ratings. Building on recent progress in deep learning on graph-structured data, we prop…

2017-06-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Advanced and effective collaborative filtering methods based on explicit feedback assume that unknown ratings do not follow the same model as the observed ones (\emph{not missing at random}). In this work, we build on this assumption, and introduce a novel dynamic matrix factorization framework that allows to set an ex…

2015-07-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a popular technique in today's recommender systems, and matrix approximation-based CF methods have achieved great success in both rating prediction and top-N recommendation tasks. However, real-world user-item rating matrices are typically sparse, incomplete and noisy, which introduce ch…

2018-11-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Exploiting low-rank structure of the user-item rating matrix has been the crux of many recommendation engines. However, existing recommendation engines force raters with heterogeneous behavior profiles to map their intrinsic rating scales to a common rating scale (e.g. 1-5). This non-linear transformation of the rating…

2018-10-31abs ↗pdf ↗

TransCF improves recommendation by modeling user-item relationships with translation vectors.

problem Triangle inequality violation in matrix factorization-based recommendation methods.
method TransCF uses translation vectors to model latent user-item relationships in implicit feedback.
result TransCF outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 17% in hit ratio.

Secure social recommendation framework using secret sharing.

problem Privacy concerns and reluctance to share social data in recommender systems.
method Secret Sharing based Matrix Multiplication (SSMM) protocol for secure data sharing and collaborative recommendation.
result SeSoRec framework improves recommendation performance and is secure.

Data poisoning attacks can manipulate recommender systems to recommend target items.

problem Attacks on recommender systems to influence top-N item recommendations.
method Formulated as an optimization problem, solved using influence function to select influential users.
result Effective data poisoning attacks that outperform existing methods.

SAIN integrates user-item feedback with content attributes for better recommendation.

problem Cold start problems in recommendation models due to sparse user-item interactions.
method SAIN uses a self-attention mechanism to capture feature interactions and an information integration layer to combine feedback and content information.
result SAIN outperforms state-of-the-art models by 2.13% on public datasets.

Model-based collaborative filtering analyzes user-item interactions to infer latent factors that represent user preferences and item characteristics in order to predict future interactions. Most collaborative filtering algorithms assume that these latent factors are static, although it has been shown that user preferen…

2016-08-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Improved item recommendations for repeat interactions using sequence analysis.

problem Limited effectiveness of traditional recommender systems in handling repeated user-item interactions.
method Designed a recommender system that considers sequences of item interactions for each user.
result Empirically shown to give highly accurate predictions and increase sales by 5%.

Matrix completion has a long-time history of usage as the core technique of recommender systems. In particular, 1-bit matrix completion, which considers the prediction as a ``Recommended'' or ``Not Recommended'' question, has proved its significance and validity in the field. However, while customers and products aggre…

2019-04-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Low rank matrix factorisation is often used in recommender systems as a way of extracting latent features. When dealing with large and sparse datasets, traditional recommendation algorithms face the problem of acquiring large, unrestrained, fluctuating values over predictions especially for users/items with very few co…

2018-07-15abs ↗pdf ↗

CSA improves recommender systems by learning context-aware feature representations.

problem Limited expressiveness of traditional IMC methods for feature representations.
method Generalizes self-attention mechanism to IMC, learning context-aware feature representations.
result Extensive experiments show CSA's effectiveness on real RS datasets.

We present our solution to the job recommendation task for RecSys Challenge 2016. The main contribution of our work is to combine temporal learning with sequence modeling to capture complex user-item activity patterns to improve job recommendations. First, we propose a time-based ranking model applied to historical obs…

2016-08-11abs ↗pdf ↗

We use deep learning to model interactions across two or more sets of objects, such as user-movie ratings, protein-drug bindings, or ternary user-item-tag interactions. The canonical representation of such interactions is a matrix (or a higher-dimensional tensor) with an exchangeability property: the encoding's meaning…

2018-03-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Top-N recommender systems have been investigated widely both in industry and academia. However, the recommendation quality is far from satisfactory. In this paper, we propose a simple yet promising algorithm. We fill the user-item matrix based on a low-rank assumption and simultaneously keep the original information. T…

2016-01-19abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper models and predicts co-occurrence counts using Gamma regression.

problem Predicting relevance between items or users from high-dimensional sparse co-occurrence count data.
method Shared parameter alternating zero-inflated Gamma regression models (SA-ZIG) with Fisher scoring and learning rate adjustment.
result SA-ZIG with learning rate adjustment performs satisfactorily in predicting relevance.

Proposes MCCF to distinguish latent purchasing motivations in user-item interactions.

problem Difficulty in capturing fine-grained user preferences due to complex latent motivations.
method Introduces MCCF with decomposer and combiner modules to identify and recombine latent components.
result Significant performance gains and necessity of considering multiple components demonstrated.

Recently, word embedding algorithms have been applied to map the entities of recommender systems, such as users and items, to new feature spaces using textual element-context relations among them. Unlike many other domains, this approach has not achieved a desired performance in collaborative filtering problems, probab…

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper proposes a new method for product recommendation that considers revenue contributions and user similarity.

problem High dimensionality and sparsity in user-item data, especially in terms of revenue contributions.
method The approach encodes revenue contributions in the user-item matrix and computes customer similarity using suitable distance measures.
result The method segments users based on revenue-based similarity and supports recommendations aligned with profitability objectives.

The paper explores using set-level ratings for better user-item preference prediction in recommender systems.

problem Capturing user preferences on individual items using set-level ratings.
method Developed collaborative filtering-based methods to model user behaviors in set-level ratings.
result Collaborative filtering-based models can recover and predict user preferences on individual items using set-level ratings.

Matrix factorization is a simple and effective solution to the recommendation problem. It has been extensively employed in the industry and has attracted much attention from the academia. However, it is unclear what the low-dimensional matrices represent. We show that matrix factorization can actually be seen as simult…

2018-08-28abs ↗pdf ↗

Model-based methods for recommender systems have been studied extensively in recent years. In systems with large corpus, however, the calculation cost for the learnt model to predict all user-item preferences is tremendous, which makes full corpus retrieval extremely difficult. To overcome the calculation barriers, mod…

2018-01-08abs ↗pdf ↗

Integrates contextual constraints into embedding models for better recommendation quality.

problem Contextual constraints lead to incomplete or low-quality recommendations when applied independently.
method Merges constraint application and retrieval into one operation in the embedding space.
result Significant improvements in predictive performance compared to context-aware and standard models.

Matrix factorization (MF) has become a common approach to collaborative filtering, due to ease of implementation and scalability to large data sets. Two existing drawbacks of the basic model is that it does not incorporate side information on either users or items, and assumes a common variance for all users. We extend…

2014-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid Deep Embedding for aspect-level explanations in recommendations.

problem Challenges in personalization, dynamic explanations, and aspect-level granularity in recommendation systems.
method Proposes Hybrid Deep Embedding (HDE) to learn dynamic embeddings for user and item preferences, and aspect-level quality vectors.
result Demonstrates improved recommending performance and dynamic aspect-level explanations.

New model improves recommendation systems by analyzing user-item interactions.

problem Improving recommendation systems for better user-item interactions.
method Sliced Anti-symmetric Decomposition (SAD) model using tensor decomposition.
result SAD produces the most consistent personalized preferences compared to SOTA models.

NeuCDCF combines matrix factorization and deep learning for cross-domain recommendation.

problem Data sparsity and cold-start problems in recommendation systems.
method Wide and deep framework combining matrix factorization and deep neural networks.
result NeuCDCF outperforms state-of-the-art models on real-world datasets.

OMIC improves matrix completion with orthonormal side information and nuclear-norm regularization.

problem Matrix completion with improved interpretability and adaptability.
method OMIC combines orthonormal side information and nuclear-norm regularization, optimized by a converging algorithm.
result OMIC outperforms state-of-the-art methods in synthetic and real-world datasets.

PGRec improves recommendation by modeling user-item preferences as a graph and embedding it for better predictions.

problem Sparse user-item data in recommender systems.
method PGRec models user-item preferences as a PrefGraph, then uses deep learning and factorization to embed and predict user preferences.
result PGRec outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 3.2% in NDCG@10.

Latent factor models for Recommender Systems with implicit feedback typically treat unobserved user-item interactions (i.e. missing information) as negative feedback. This is frequently done either through negative sampling (point--wise loss) or with a ranking loss function (pair-- or list--wise estimation). Since a ze…

2018-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗