SLIM: Sparse Linear Methods for Top-N Recommender Systems

  • Authors:
  • Xia Ning;George Karypis

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

This paper focuses on developing effective and efficient algorithms for top-N recommender systems. A novel Sparse Linear Method (SLIM) is proposed, which generates top-N recommendations by aggregating from user purchase/rating profiles. A sparse aggregation coefficient matrix W is learned from SLIM by solving an `1-norm and `2-norm regularized optimization problem. W is demonstrated to produce high quality recommendations and its sparsity allows SLIM to generate recommendations very fast. A comprehensive set of experiments is conducted by comparing the SLIM method and other state-of-the-art top-N recommendation methods. The experiments show that SLIM achieves significant improvements both in run time performance and recommendation quality over the best existing methods.