Learning to recommend with multi-faceted trust in social networks

  • Authors:
  • Lei Guo;Jun Ma;Zhumin Chen

  • Affiliations:
  • Shandong University, Jinan, China;Shandong University, Jinan, China;Shandong University, Jinan, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Traditionally, trust-aware recommendation methods that utilize trust relations for recommender systems assume a single type of trust between users. However, this assumption ignores the fact that trust as a social concept inherently has many aspects. A user may place trust differently to different people. Motivated by this observation, we propose a novel probabilistic factor analysis method, which learns the multi-faceted trust relations and user profiles through a shared user latent feature space. Experimental results on the real product rating data set show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the RMSE measure.