Consider a typical recommendation problem. A company has historical records of products sold to a large customer base. These records may be compactly represented as a sparse custom...
We develop a new collaborative filtering (CF) method that combines both previously known users' preferences, i.e. standard CF, as well as product/user attributes, i.e. classi...
Jacob Abernethy, Francis Bach, Theodoros Evgeniou,...
We describe a class of causal, discrete latent variable models called Multiple Multiplicative Factor models (MMFs). A data vector is represented in the latent space as a vector of...
Data sparsity, scalability and prediction quality have been recognized as the three most crucial challenges that every collaborative filtering algorithm or recommender system conf...
Abstract. Collaborative filtering is a popular method for personalizing product recommendations. Maximum Margin Matrix Factorization (MMMF) has been proposed as one successful lear...
Markus Weimer, Alexandros Karatzoglou, Alex J. Smo...