Applications of the conjugate gradient method for implicit feedback collaborative filtering

  • Authors:
  • Gábor Takács;István Pilászy;Domonkos Tikk

  • Affiliations:
  • Széchenyi István University, GyQr, Hungary;Gravity Research & Development Ltd., Budapest, Hungary;Gravity Research & Development Ltd., Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fifth ACM conference on Recommender systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The need for solving weighted ridge regression (WRR) problems arises in a number of collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms. Often, there is not enough time to calculate the exact solution of the WRR problem, or it is not required. The conjugate gradient (CG) method is a state-of-the-art approach for the approximate solution of WRR problems. In this paper, we investigate some applications of the CG method for new and existing implicit feedback CF models. We demonstrate through experiments on the Netflix dataset that CG can be an efficient tool for training implicit feedback CF models.