Support vector machines for collaborative filtering

  • Authors:
  • Zhonghang Xia;Yulin Dong;Guangming Xing

  • Affiliations:
  • Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY;Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning, China;Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 44th annual Southeast regional conference
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have successfully shown efficiencies in many areas such as text categorization. Although recommendation systems share many similarities with text categorization, the performance of SVMs in recommendation systems is not acceptable due to the sparsity of the user-item matrix. In this paper, we propose a heuristic method to improve the predictive accuracy of SVMs by repeatedly correcting the missing values in the user-item matrix. The performance comparison to other algorithms has been conducted. The experimental studies show that the accurate rates of our heuristic method are the highest.