Title
Neural Embedding Singular Value Decomposition for Collaborative Filtering
Abstract
Singular value decomposition (SVD) is one of the most effective algorithms in recommender systems (RSs). Due to the iterative nature of SVD algorithms, one big challenge is initialization that has a major impact on the convergence and performance of RSs. Unfortunately, existing SVD algorithms in the literature typically initialize the user and item features in a random manner; thus, data information is not fully utilized. This work addresses the challenge of developing an efficient initialization method for SVD algorithms. We propose a general neural embedding initialization framework, where a low-complexity probabilistic autoencoder neural network initializes the features of user and item. This framework supports explicit and implicit feedback data sets. The design details of our proposed framework are elaborated and discussed. Experimental results show that RSs based on our proposed initialization framework outperform the state-of-the-art methods in rating prediction. Moreover, regarding item ranking, our proposed framework shows an improvement of at least 2.20% ~5.74% than existing SVD algorithms and other matrix factorization methods in the literature.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TNNLS.2021.3070853
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Collaborative filtering (CF),matrix factorization (MF),neural embedding,singular value decomposition (SVD)
Journal
33
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
2162-237X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tianlin Huang111.05
Rujie Zhao200.34
Lvqing Bi300.34
Defu Zhang465752.80
Chao Lu5418.60