Local item-item models for top-N recommendation

Evangelia Christakopoulou, George Karypis

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Abstract

Item-based approaches based on SLIM (Sparse LInear Methods) have demonstrated very good performance for top-N recommendation; however they only estimate a single model for all the users. This work is based on the intuition that not all users behave in the same way - instead there exist subsets of like-minded users. By using different item-item models for these user subsets, we can capture differences in their preferences and this can lead to improved performance for top-N recommendations. In this work, we extend SLIM by combining global and local SLIM models. We present a method that computes the prediction scores as a user-specific combination of the predictions derived by a global and local itemitem models. We present an approach in which the global model, the local models, their user-specific combination, and the assignment of users to the local models are jointly optimized to improve the top-N recommendation performance. Our experiments show that the proposed method improves upon the standard SLIM model and outperforms competing top-N recommendation approaches.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationRecSys 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages67-74
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450340359
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 7 2016
Event10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2016 - Boston, United States
Duration: Sep 15 2016Sep 19 2016

Publication series

NameRecSys 2016 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Other

Other10th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period9/15/169/19/16

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