Amira Abdelwahab
ABSTRACT
Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most popular recommender system technologies. It tries to identify users that have relevant interests and preferences by calculating similarities among user profiles. The idea behind this method is that, it may be of benefit to one's search for information to consult the preferences of other users who share the same or relevant interests and whose opinion can be trusted. However, the applicability of CF is limited due to the sparsity and cold-start problems. The sparsity problem occurs when available data are insufficient for identifying similar users (neighbors) and it is a major issue that limits the quality of recommendations and the applicability of CF in general. Additionally, the cold-start problem occurs when dealing with new users and new or updated items in web environments. Therefore, we propose an efficient iterative prediction technique to convert user-item sparse matrix to dense one and overcome the cold-start problem. Our experiments with MovieLens and book-crossing data sets indicate substantial and consistent improvements in recommendations accuracy compared with item-based collaborative filtering, singular value decomposition (SVD)-based collaborative filtering and semi explicit rating collaborative filtering.
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- Collaborative filtering based on an iterative prediction method to alleviate the sparsity problem
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