| Title | Improving Collaborative Filtering’s Rating Prediction Accuracy by Introducing the Common Item Rating Past Criterion |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Margaris D, Vasilopoulos D, Vassilakis C, Spiliotopoulos D |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA2019) |
| Date Published | jul |
| Keywords | collaborative filtering, Common Item Rating Past Criterion, Cosine Similarity, Evaluation, Items’ Rating Sequence, Pearson Correlation Coeffi-cient |
| Abstract | Collaborative filtering computes personalized recommendations by taking into account ratings expressed by users. Collaborative filtering algorithms firstly identify people having similar tastes, by examining the likeness of already entered ratings. Users with highly similar tastes are termed “near neighbors” and recommendations for a user are based on his near neighbors’ ratings. In order to measure similarity between users, so as to determine a user’s NNs, a similarity metric is used. Insofar, similarity metrics proposed in the literature either consider all user ratings equally or take into account temporal variations within the users’ or items’ ratings history. However users’ ratings are co-shaped according to the experiences that they had in the past; therefore if two users enter similar (or dissimilar) ratings for an item while having experienced –to a large extent the same items in the past, this constitutes stronger evidence about user similarity (or dissimilarity). Insofar however, no similarity metric takes into account this aspect. In this work, we (1) propose an algorithm that considers the common item rating past in the rating prediction computation process, aiming to improve rating prediction quality, and (2) evaluate the proposed algorithm against seven widely used datasets, both dense and sparse, and considering two widely used user similarity metrics. |
