Latent Factor Transition for Dynamic Collaborative Filtering
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User preferences change over time and capturing such changes is essential for developing accurate recommender systems. Despite its importance, only a few works in collaborative filtering have addressed this issue. In this paper, we consider evolving preferences and we model user dynamics by introducing and learning a transition matrix for each user’s latent vectors between consecutive time windows. Intuitively, the transition matrix for a user summarizes the time-invariant pattern of the evolution for the user. We first extend the conventional probabilistic matrix factorization and then improve upon this solution through its fully Bayesian model. These solutions take advantage of the model complexity and scalability of conventional Bayesian matrix factorization, yet adapt dynamically to user’s evolving preferences. We evaluate the effectiveness of these solutions through empirical studies on six large-scale real life data sets.
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Latent Factor Transition for Dynamic Collaborative Filtering | Proceedings of the 2014 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
User preferences change over time and capturing such changes is essential for developing accurate recommender systems. Despite its importance, only a few works in collaborative filtering have addressed this issue. In this paper, we consider evolving preferences and we model user dynamics by introducing and learning a transition matrix for each user’s latent vectors between consecutive time wind...
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