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A Distributed Collaborative Filtering Algorithm Using Multiple Data Sources

Authors:
Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek
Esther Pacitti
Maximilien Servajean
Florent Masseglia
Amr El Abbadi

Keywords: –Recommender Systems; Collaborative Filtering; Social Recommendation; Matrix Factorization

Abstract:
Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most commonly used recommendation methods. CF consists in predicting whether, or how much, a user will like (or dislike) an item by leveraging the knowledge of the user's preferences as well as that of other users. In practice, users interact and express their opinion on only a small subset of items, which makes the corresponding user-item rating matrix very sparse. Such data sparsity yields two main problems for recommender systems: (1) the lack of data to effectively model users' preferences, and (2) the lack of data to effectively model item characteristics. However, there are often many other data sources that are available to a recommender system provider, which can describe user interests and item characteristics (e.g., users' social network, tags associated to items, etc.). These valuable data sources may supply useful information to enhance a recommendation system in modeling users' preferences and item characteristics more accurately and thus, hopefully, to make recommenders more precise. For various reasons, these data sources may be managed by clusters of different data centers, thus requiring the development of distributed solutions. In this paper, we propose a new distributed collaborative filtering algorithm, which exploits and combines multiple and diverse data sources to improve recommendation quality. Our experimental evaluation using real datasets shows the effectiveness of our algorithm compared to state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms.

Pages: 46 to 55

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: May 20, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4332

ISBN: 978-1-61208-637-8

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from May 20, 2018 to May 24, 2018