Abstract
In this paper, we propose a Variational Deep Collaborative Matrix Factorization (VDCMF) algorithm for social recommendation that infers latent factors more effectively than existing methods by incorporating users’ social trust information and items’ content information into a unified generative framework. Unlike neural network-based algorithms, our model is not only effective in capturing the non-linearity among correlated variables but also powerful in predicting missing values under the robust collaborative inference. Specifically, we use variational auto-encoder to extract the latent representations of content and then incorporate them into traditional social trust factorization. We propose an efficient expectation-maximization inference algorithm to learn the model’s parameters and approximate the posteriors of latent factors. Experiments on two sparse datasets show that our VDCMF significantly outperforms major state-of-the-art CF methods for recommendation accuracy on common metrics.
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This work is supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. #2017YFB0203201) and Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP150104871.
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Xiao, T., Tian, H., Shen, H. (2019). Variational Deep Collaborative Matrix Factorization for Social Recommendation. In: Yang, Q., Zhou, ZH., Gong, Z., Zhang, ML., Huang, SJ. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. PAKDD 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11439. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16148-4_33
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