Designing Specific Weighted Similarity Measures to Improve Collaborative Filtering Systems

  • Authors:
  • Laurent Candillier;Frank Meyer;Françoise Fessant

  • Affiliations:
  • France Telecom R&D Lannion, France;France Telecom R&D Lannion, France;France Telecom R&D Lannion, France

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '08 Proceedings of the 8th industrial conference on Advances in Data Mining: Medical Applications, E-Commerce, Marketing, and Theoretical Aspects
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The aim of collaborative filteringis to help usersto find itemsthat they should appreciate from huge catalogues. In that field, we can distinguish user-basedfrom item-basedapproaches. The former is based on the notion of user neighbourhoods while the latter uses item neighbourhoods.The definition of similaritybetween users and items is a key problem in both approaches. While traditional similarity measures can be used, we will see in this paper that bespoke ones, that are tailored to type of data that is typically available (i.e. very sparse), tend to lead to better results.Extensive experiments are conducted on two publicly available datasets, called MovieLensand Netflix. Many similarity measures are compared. And we will show that using weighted similarity measures significantly improves the results of both user- and item-based approaches.