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Synthetic sequence generator for recommender systems - memory biased random walk on sequence multilayer network

Information Retrieval 2015-03-20 v2 Computers and Society

Abstract

Personalized recommender systems rely on each user's personal usage data in the system, in order to assist in decision making. However, privacy policies protecting users' rights prevent these highly personal data from being publicly available to a wider researcher audience. In this work, we propose a memory biased random walk model on multilayer sequence network, as a generator of synthetic sequential data for recommender systems. We demonstrate the applicability of the synthetic data in training recommender system models for cases when privacy policies restrict clickstream publishing.

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@article{arxiv.1201.6134,
  title  = {Synthetic sequence generator for recommender systems - memory biased random walk on sequence multilayer network},
  author = {Nino Antulov-Fantulin and Matko Bosnjak and Vinko Zlatic and Miha Grcar and Tomislav Smuc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.6134},
  year   = {2015}
}

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