Preference networks: probabilistic models for recommendation systems

  • Authors:
  • Tran The Truyen;Dinh Q. Phung;Svetha Venkatesh

  • Affiliations:
  • Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia;Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia;Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AusDM '07 Proceedings of the sixth Australasian conference on Data mining and analytics - Volume 70
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Recommender systems are important to help users select relevant and personalised information over massive amounts of data available. We propose an unified framework called Preference Network (PN) that jointly models various types of domain knowledge for the task of recommendation. The PN is a probabilistic model that systematically combines both content-based filtering and collaborative filtering into a single conditional Markov random field. Once estimated, it serves as a probabilistic database that supports various useful queries such as rating prediction and top-N recommendation. To handle the challenging problem of learning large networks of users and items, we employ a simple but effective pseudo-likelihood with regularisation. Experiments on the movie rating data demonstrate the merits of the PN.