Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Algorithms Using a Mixture of Experts
- Xiaoyuan Su
- Russ Greiner, Dept of Computing Science; PI of AICML
- Taghi Khoshgoftaar, Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL 33431, USA
- Xingquan Zhu, Computer Science and Engineering, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL 33431, USA
Collaborative filtering (CF) is one of the most successful approaches for recommendation. In this paper, we propose two hybrid CF algorithms, sequential mixture CF and joint mixture CF, each combining advice from multiple experts for effective recommendation. These proposed hybrid CF models work particularly well in the common situation when data are very sparse. By combining multiple experts to form a mixture CF, our systems are able to cope with sparse data to obtain satisfactory performance. Empirical studies show that our algorithms outperform their peers, such as memory-based, pure model-based, pure content-based CF algorithms, and the contentboosted CF (a representative hybrid CF algorithm), especially when the underlying data are very sparse.
Citation
X. Su, R. Greiner, T. Khoshgoftaar, X. Zhu. "Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Algorithms Using a Mixture of Experts". IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence, pp 645-649, November 2007.| Keywords: | learning, collaborative filtering, ELR, Belief Nets, machine learning |
| Category: | In Conference |
BibTeX
@incollection{Su+al:WI07,
author = {Xiaoyuan Su and Russ Greiner and Taghi Khoshgoftaar and Xingquan
Zhu},
title = {Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Algorithms Using a Mixture of
Experts},
Pages = {645-649},
booktitle = {IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence},
year = 2007,
}Last Updated: August 29, 2007Submitted by Xiaoyuan Su
