Abstract. User-to-user similarity is a fundamental component of Collaborative Filtering (CF) recommender systems. In user-to-user similarity the ratings assigned by two users to a ...
This paper describes an approach for incorporating externally specified aggregate ratings information into certain types of collaborative filtering (CF) methods. For a statistic...
Data sparsity is a major problem for collaborative filtering (CF) techniques in recommender systems, especially for new users and items. We observe that, while our target data are...
Weike Pan, Evan Wei Xiang, Nathan Nan Liu, Qiang Y...
Recommender Systems, based on collaborative filtering (CF), aim to accurately predict user tastes, by minimising the mean error achieved on hidden test sets of user ratings, afte...
With the increasing popularity of recommender systems in commercial services, the quality of recommendations has increasingly become an important to study, much like the quality o...