Property-based collaborative filtering for health-aware recommender systems

Recommender systems aim at solving the problem of information overload by selecting items (commercial products, educational assets, TV programs, etc.) that match the consumers’ interests and preferences. Recently, there have been approaches to drive the recommendations by the information stored in electronic health records, for which the traditional strategies applied in online shopping, e-learning, entertainment and other areas have several pitfalls. This paper addresses those problems by introducing a new filtering strategy, centered on the properties that characterize the items and the users. Preliminary experiments with real users have proved that this approach outperforms previous ones in terms of consumers’ satisfaction with the recommended items. The benefits are especially apparent among people with specific health concerns.     

Pessimists and optimists: Improving collaborative filtering through sentiment analysis

This work presents a novel application of Sentiment Analysis in Recommender Systems by categorizing users according to the average polarity of their comments. These categories are used as attributes in Collaborative Filtering algorithms. To test this solution a new corpus of opinions on movies obtained from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) has been generated, so both ratings and comments are available. The experiments stress the informative value of comments. By applying Sentiment Analysis approaches some Collaborative Filtering algorithms can be improved in rating prediction tasks. The results indicate that we obtain a more reliable prediction considering only the opinion text (RMSE of 1.868), than when apply similarities over the entire user community (RMSE of 2.134) and sentiment analysis can be advantageous to recommender systems.     

基于项的协同过滤在推荐系统中的应用研究

分析基于项的协同过滤在推荐系统中应用及所存在的问题,提出了一个基于项的协同过滤改进算法,并给出了改进算法在标准数据集上的实验结果,对改进算法与原算法进行了相关性能的比较分析,证明了改进算法的有效性.最后,对研究进行了总结,指出存在的不足,提出了进一步研究的方向.     

聚类与协同过滤相结合的隐式推荐系统

针对目前大多推荐系统中使用的协同过滤算法都需要有显示的用户反馈的问题,提出一种在隐式反馈推荐系统中使用聚类与矩阵分解技术相结合的方法,为用户提供更好地推荐结果。其结果是由基于用户历史购买记录的隐式反馈产生的,不需任何显式反馈提供的数据。采用高维的、无参数的分裂层次聚类技术产生聚类结果,根据聚类的结果为每个用户提供高兴趣度的个性化推荐。实验结果表明,在隐式反馈的情况下该方法也能有效获得用户偏好,产生大量的高准确度推荐。     

联邦推荐系统的协同过滤冷启动解决方法

基于联邦学习的推荐系统可以在保护用户隐私的情况下,联合多方数据,提升推荐系统的性能,已经成为推荐领域的研究热点之一.联邦协同过滤是联邦推荐系统中最经典及最常用的算法之一.然而,针对联邦协同过滤系统的冷启动问题的研究工作相对较少.针对这一问题,本文提出了一种基于安全内积协议的解决方案.具体地,在系统中添加新用户或新物品时...     

一种基于Sigmoid函数的改进协同过滤推荐算法

随着电子商务和社交网络的蓬勃发展, 推荐系统逐渐成为数据挖掘领域的重要研究方向。推荐系统能够从海量信息中定位用户兴趣点, 提供个性化服务。协同过滤算法能够有效分析用户偏好, 提供合适的推荐服务。针对评分矩阵稀疏时传统协同过滤算法性能很差的问题, 提出一种基于Sigmoid函数的改进推荐系统算法。利用Sigmoid函数对不同项目进行建模, 得到项目的平均受欢迎程度; 利用Sigmoid函数对不同用户进行建模, 将评分映射为用户对项目的喜好程度; 根据用户对项目喜好程度应该与项目平均受欢迎程度贴近的原则进行评分预测。在两组真实数据集合上的实验结果表明, 该算法较好地解决了数据稀疏性问题, 能够有效提高传统算法的预测准确性。     

Applying artificial immune systems to collaborative filtering for movie recommendation

Collaborative filtering is a widely used recommendation technique and many collaborative filtering techniques have been developed, each with its own merits and drawbacks. In this study, we apply an artificial immune network to collaborative filtering for movie recommendation. We propose new formulas in calculating the affinity between an antigen and an antibody and the affinity of an antigen to an immune network. In addition, a modified similarity estimation formula based on the Pearson correlation coefficient is also developed. A series of experiments based on MovieLens and EachMovie datasets are conducted, and the results are very encouraging.     

Power coefficient as a similarity measure for memory-based collaborative recommender systems

E-commerce systems employ recommender systems to enhance the customer loyalty and hence increasing the cross-selling of products. However, choosing appropriate similarity measure is a key to the recommender system success. Based on this measure, a set of neighbors for the current active user is formed which in turn will be used later to recommend unseen items to this active user. Pearson correlation coefficient, the most popular similarity measure for memory-based collaborative recommender system (CRS), measures how much two users are correlated. However, statistic’s literature introduced many other coefficients for matching two sets (vectors) that may perform better than Pearson correlation coefficient. This paper explores Jaccard and Dice coefficients for matching users of CRS. A more general coefficient called a Power coefficient is proposed in this paper which represents a family of coefficients. Specifically, Power coefficient gives many degrees for emphasizing on the positive matches between users. However, CRS users have positive and negative matches and therefore these coefficients have to be modified to take negative matches into consideration. Consequently, they become more suitable for CRS research. Many experiments are carried out for all the proposed variants and are compared with the traditional approaches. The experimental results show that the proposed variants outperform Pearson correlation coefficient and cosine similarity measure as they are the most common approaches for memory-based CRS.     

一种基于特征表的协同过滤算法

协同过滤是迄今为止最成功的推荐系统,它可以产生高质量的推荐,但是其性能随着客户和产品数目的增加而下降.提出了一种基于特征表的协同过滤算法,该算法首先将原始数据划分成若干个特征集,然后通过建立特征表而避免顺序扫描.在真实数据集上的实验表明该算法对推荐系统的可伸缩性和推荐质量都有较大的提高.     

应用WUM和RBFN补值的协同过滤推荐研究

协同过滤是目前推荐系统中最为成功的一种方法,但面临稀疏数据特征时存在冷启动、稀疏性、可扩展性等问题。提出利用Web数据挖掘（WUM）获取隐性数据对显性用户评价矩阵进行补值,应用径向基函数（RBFN）对补值后的评价矩阵进一步进行平滑处理,得到消除稀疏性后的完全评价矩阵,基于完全评价矩阵利用协同过滤技术对相似用户进行聚类并实施推荐。实验评价结果表明该方法与传统协同过滤推荐方法相比,无论在推荐精度还是推荐相关性上都更为有效。     

Deep learning techniques for recommender systems based on collaborative filtering

In the Big Data Era, recommender systems perform a fundamental role in data management and information filtering. In this context, Collaborative Filtering (CF) persists as one of the most prominent strategies to effectively deal with large datasets and is capable of offering users interesting content in a recommendation fashion. Nevertheless, it is well-known CF recommenders suffer from data sparsity, mainly in cold-start scenarios, substantially reducing the quality of recommendations. In the vast literature about the aforementioned topic, there are numerous solutions, in which the state-of-the-art contributions are, in some sense, conditioned or associated with traditional CF methods such as Matrix Factorization (MF), that is, they rely on linear optimization procedures to model users and items into low-dimensional embeddings. To overcome the aforementioned challenges, there has been an increasing number of studies exploring deep learning techniques in the CF context for latent factor modelling. In this research, authors conduct a systematic review focusing on state-of-the-art literature on deep learning techniques applied in collaborative filtering recommendation, and also featuring primary studies related to mitigating the cold start problem. Additionally, authors considered the diverse non-linear modelling strategies to deal with rating data and side information, the combination of deep learning techniques with traditional CF-based linear methods, and an overview of the most used public datasets and evaluation metrics concerning CF scenarios.     

Using collaborative filtering to support college students’ use of online forum for English learning

This study examined the impact of collaborative filtering (the so-called recommender) on college students’ use of an online forum for English learning. The forum was created with an open-source software, Drupal, and its extended recommender module. This study was guided by three main questions: 1) Is there any difference in online behaviors between students who use a traditional forum and students who use a forum with a recommender?; 2) Is there any difference in learning motivation between students who use a traditional forum and students who use a forum with a recommender?; 3) Is there any difference in learning achievement between students who use a traditional forum and students who use a forum with a recommender?.     

A domain model of Web recommender systems based on usage mining and collaborative filtering

Considering the increasing demand of multi-agent systems, the practice of software reuse is essential to the development of such systems. Multi-agent domain engineering is a process for the construction of domain-specific agent-based reusable software artifacts, like domain models, representing the requirements of a family of multi-agent systems in a domain, and frameworks, implementing reusable agent-based design solutions to those requirements. This article describes the domain modeling tasks of the MADEM methodology and a case study on the application of GRAMO, a MADEM technique, for the construction of the domain model of ONTOWUM, specifying the common and variable requirements of a family of Web recommender systems based on usage mining and collaborative filtering.     

融合协同过滤的XGBoost推荐算法

在推荐系统中,针对用户的冷启动问题,提出一种融合协同过滤的XGBoost推荐算法。根据基于用户相似度的协同过滤推荐算法进行粗粒度召回,得到部分用户的召回集,使用XGBoost算法对召回集中的项目进行预测。对于存在冷启动问题的用户,直接使用XGBoost算法对候选集中的项目进行预测。该算法采用CCIR2018个性化推荐评测的在线评测数据集,并将推荐结果投放到知乎提供的线上平台进行评测。评测结果表明,该算法可以解决用户的冷启动问题,具有很高的执行效率,准确度高,在线上评测中取得显著的推荐效果。     

云模式用户行为关联聚类的协同过滤推荐算法

传统的协同过滤推荐算法基于互联网模式单纯从某个角度研究电子商务推荐问题,推荐质量明显不高。为改善推荐效果,提高推荐系统的伸缩性和实用价值,基于研究云模式的用户行为相似性度量公式、用户行为等级函数、关联规则函数,定义关联聚类方法,改进相应算法,提出一种云模式用户行为关联聚类的协同过滤推荐算法。最后使用MovieLens和阿里巴巴的云测试数据进行局部实验与全局实验,并对各种算法的实验结果进行对比分析。实验结果表明,该算法推荐效果明显优于传统算法,具有较强的伸缩性和较高的实用价值。     

A recommender agent based on learning styles for better virtual collaborative learning experiences

Almost unlimited access to educational information plethora came with a drawback: finding meaningful material is not a straightforward task anymore. Based on a survey related to how students find additional bibliographical resources for university courses, we concluded there is a strong need for recommended learning materials, for specialized online search and for personalized learning tools. As a result, we developed an educational collaborative filtering recommender agent, with an integrated learning style finder. The agent produces two types of recommendations: suggestions and shortcuts for learning materials and learning tools, helping the learner to better navigate through educational resources. Shortcuts are created taking into account only the user’s profile, while suggestions are created using the choices made by the learners with similar learning styles. The learning style finder assigns to each user a profile model, taking into account an index of learning styles, as well as patterns discovered in the virtual behavior of the user. The current study presents the agent itself, as well as its integration to a virtual collaborative learning environment and its success and limitations, based on users’ feedback.     

情感分析在电影推荐系统中的应用

基于用户的协同过滤推荐算法是通过分析用户行为寻找相似用户的集合,其核心是用户兴趣模型的建立以及用户间相似度的计算。传统的用户推荐算法是根据用户评分或者物品信息等行为数据进行个性化推荐,准确率比较低。充分考虑在线评论对于用户之间兴趣相似度的作用,通过对评论的情感分析,构建准确的用户兴趣模型,若用户在评论中表现出来的相似度越高,则表示用户之间的兴趣越相似。实验表明,和传统的基于用户的协同过滤推荐算法相比,基于评论情感分析的协同过滤推荐算法,无论准确率还是召回率都有明显提高。     

A novel collaborative filtering approach for recommending ranked items

In recent years, Collaborative Filtering (CF) has proven to be one of the most successful techniques used in recommendation systems. Since current CF systems estimate the ratings of not-yet-rated items based on other items’ ratings, these CF systems fail to recommend products when users’ preferences are not expressed in numbers. In many practical situations, however, users’ preferences are represented by ranked lists rather than numbers, such as lists of movies ranked according to users’ preferences. Therefore, this study proposes a novel collaborative filtering methodology for product recommendation when the preference of each user is expressed by multiple ranked lists of items. Accordingly, a four-staged methodology is developed to predict the rankings of not-yet-ranked items for the active user. Finally, a series of experiments is performed, and the results indicate that the proposed methodology produces high-quality recommendations.     

Neural embedding collaborative filtering for recommender systems

Neural Computing and Applications - The main purpose of collaborative filtering algorithm is to provide a personalized recommender system based on past interactions of each user (e.g., clicks and...     

A framework for collaborative filtering recommender systems

As the use of recommender systems becomes more consolidated on the Net, an increasing need arises to develop some kind of evaluation framework for collaborative filtering measures and methods which is capable of not only testing the prediction and recommendation results, but also of other purposes which until now were considered secondary, such as novelty in the recommendations and the users’ trust in these. This paper provides: (a) measures to evaluate the novelty of the users’ recommendations and trust in their neighborhoods, (b) equations that formalize and unify the collaborative filtering process and its evaluation, (c) a framework based on the above-mentioned elements that enables the evaluation of the quality results of any collaborative filtering applied to the desired recommender systems, using four graphs: quality of the predictions, the recommendations, the novelty and the trust.