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Regularizing Matrix Factorization with User and Item Embeddings for Recommendation

Information Retrieval 2018-09-05 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Following recent successes in exploiting both latent factor and word embedding models in recommendation, we propose a novel Regularized Multi-Embedding (RME) based recommendation model that simultaneously encapsulates the following ideas via decomposition: (1) which items a user likes, (2) which two users co-like the same items, (3) which two items users often co-liked, and (4) which two items users often co-disliked. In experimental validation, the RME outperforms competing state-of-the-art models in both explicit and implicit feedback datasets, significantly improving Recall@5 by 5.9~7.0%, NDCG@20 by 4.3~5.6%, and MAP@10 by 7.9~8.9%. In addition, under the cold-start scenario for users with the lowest number of interactions, against the competing models, the RME outperforms NDCG@5 by 20.2% and 29.4% in MovieLens-10M and MovieLens-20M datasets, respectively. Our datasets and source code are available at: https://github.com/thanhdtran/RME.git.

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@article{arxiv.1809.00979,
  title  = {Regularizing Matrix Factorization with User and Item Embeddings for Recommendation},
  author = {Thanh Tran and Kyumin Lee and Yiming Liao and Dongwon Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00979},
  year   = {2018}
}

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