A Theoretical Analysis of Query Selection for Collaborative Filtering

  • Authors:
  • Wee Sun Lee;Philip M. Long

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • COLT '01/EuroCOLT '01 Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory and and 5th European Conference on Computational Learning Theory
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We consider the problem of determining which of a set of experts has tastes most similar to a given user by asking the user questions about his likes and dislikes. We describe a simple and fast algorithm for a theoretical model of this problem with a provable approximation guarantee, and prove that solving the problem exactly is NP-Hard.