Multiple Latent Space Ensemble for Matrix Factorization Based Collaborative Filtering

ECTI Transactions on Computer and Information Technology

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Vasin Jinopong¹  Dussadee Praserttitipong¹  Jakramate Bootkrajang¹ 

[1] Chiang Mai University

关键词: Collaborative filtering;    Ensemble;    Matrix factorization;    Singular Values Decomposition;   

DOI  :  10.37936/ecti-cit.2022164.247873

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Communications and Information Technology Association

【 摘 要 】

Matrix factorization is arguably one of the most widely employed collab- orative ltering techniques for recommender systems. The recommendation is obtained based on the user-item relationships discovered within some lower-dimensional latent space. The optimal latent space is generally data-dependent and often needs to be selected using the time-consuming cross-validation scheme. In this paper, we propose to leverage the power of the ensemble method not only to facilitate the hyper-parameter selection but also to improve the predictive performance of the system. Specically, we studied ways to combine predictions from multiple Singular Value Decomposition models, each operates in its own latent space. Experimental results based on MovieLen100K, MovieLen1M, Bookcrossing and Filmtrust datasets demonstrated that the ensembles outperformed a tuned single model in terms of RMSE and MAE while requiring no additional model selection step. Ensemble sizes experiment have shown that the 21 submodel of the ensemble models produce better results than the 14, 8 and standalone model. However, it takes longer to complete. We also found that an ensemble that pays more attention to lower-dimensional latent spaces tends to generalize better.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND