Title
Two of a Kind or the Ratings Game? Adaptive Pairwise Preferences and Latent Factor Models
Abstract
While latent factor models are built using ratings data, which is typically assumed static, the ability to incorporate different kinds of subsequent user feedback is an important asset. For instance, the user might want to provide additional information to the system in order to improve his personal recommendations. To this end, we examine a novel scheme for efficiently learning (or refining) user parameters from such feedback. We propose a scheme where users are presented with a sequence of pair wise preference questions: "Do you prefer item A over B?". User parameters are updated based on their response, and subsequent questions are chosen adaptively after incorporating the feedback. We operate in a Bayesian framework and the choice of questions is based on an information gain criterion. We validate the scheme on the Netflix movie ratings data set. A user study and automated experiments validate our findings.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICDM.2010.149
Frontiers of Computer Science
Keywords
DocType
Volume
recommender systems,latent factor models,pairwise preferences,active learning
Journal
6
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
2
1550-4786 E-ISBN : 978-0-7695-4256-0
978-0-7695-4256-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.67
13
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Suhrid Balakrishnan123814.60
Sumit Chopra22835181.37