Title
Enhancing recommender systems by incorporating social information
Abstract
Although recommendation techniques have achieved distinct developments over the decades, the data sparseness problem of the involved user-item matrix still seriously influences the recommendation quality. Most of the existing techniques for recommender systems cannot easily deal with users who have very few ratings. How to combine the increasing amount of different types of social information such as user generated content and social relationships to enhance the prediction precision of the recommender systems remains a huge challenge. In this paper, based on a factor graph model, we formalize the problem in a semi-supervised probabilistic model, which can incorporate different user information, user relationships, and user-item ratings for learning to predict the unknown ratings. We evaluate the method in two different genres of datasets, Douban and Last.fm. Experiments indicate that our method outperforms several state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms. Furthermore, a distributed learning algorithm is developed to scale up the approach to real large datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1631/jzus.CIIP1303
Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C
Keywords
Field
DocType
Recommender system, Social information, Factor graph model, TP301.6
Data mining,Social relationship,Computer science,User information,Artificial intelligence,Social information,Recommender system,Factor graph,User-generated content,Mathematical optimization,Distributed learning,Statistical model,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
9
1869-196X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.35
29
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
liwei132.40
liwei232.40
liwei332.40
guisheng410.35
chen5114.17
Yuchao Liu6718.21
Yuchao Liu7718.21
deyi810.35