Exploiting user interests for collaborative filtering: interests expansion via personalized ranking

Authors:
Qi Liu;Enhong Chen;Hui Xiong;Chris H.Q. Ding
Affiliations:
University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;Rutgers University, Newark, NJ, USA;University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA
Venue:
CIKM '10 Proceedings of the 19th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In real applications, a given user buys or rates an item based on his/her interests. Learning to leverage this interest information is often critical for recommender systems. However, in existing recommender systems, the information about latent user interests are largely under-explored. To that end, in this paper, we propose an interest expansion strategy via personalized ranking based on the topic model, named iExpand, for building an interest-oriented collaborative filtering framework. The iExpand method introduces a three-layer, user-interest-item, representation scheme, which leads to more interpretable recommendation results and helps the understanding of the interactions among users, items, and user interests. Moreover, iExpand strategically deals with many issues, such as the overspecialization and the cold-start problems. Finally, we evaluate iExpand on benchmark data sets, and experimental results show that iExpand outperforms state-of-the-art methods.