Incremental Collaborative Filtering for Binary Ratings

  • Authors:
  • Catarina Miranda;Alípio M. Jorge

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WI-IAT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The use of collaborative filtering (CF) recommenders on the Web is typically done in environments where data is constantly flowing. In this paper we propose an incremental version of item-based CF for implicit binary ratings, and compare it with a non-incremental one, as well as with an incremental user-based approach. We also study the usage of sparse matrices in these algorithms. We observe that recall and precision tend to improve when we continuously add information to the recommender model, and that the time spent for recommendation does not degrade. Time for updating the similarity matrix is relatively low and motivates the use of the item-based incremental approach.