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The purpose of this article is to introduce a new analytical framework dedicated to measuring performance of recommender systems. The standard approach is to assess the quality of a system by means of accuracy related statistics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Szymon Chojnacki , Mieczysław Kłopotek

Personalized recommendation systems shape much of user choice online, yet their targeted nature makes separating out the value of recommendation and the underlying goods challenging. We build a discrete choice model that embeds…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-30 Kevin Zielnicki , Guy Aridor , Aurélien Bibaut , Allen Tran , Winston Chou , Nathan Kallus

Recommender systems are a class of machine learning algorithms that provide relevant recommendations to a user based on the user's interaction with similar items or based on the content of the item. In settings where the content of the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Xavier Thomas

Intelligent recommendation systems have clearly increased the revenue of well-known e-commerce firms. Users receive product recommendations from recommendation systems. Cinematic recommendations are made to users by a movie recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rohit Chivukula , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Hemlata Sharma , C. H. S. N. P. Sairam Rallabandi

Recommender systems are established means to inspire users to watch interesting movies, discover baby names, or read books. The recommendation quality further improves by combining the results of multiple recommendation algorithms using…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Juergen Mueller

In this paper we present a method for reformulating the Recommender Systems problem in an Information Retrieval one. In our tests we have a dataset of users who give ratings for some movies; we hide some values from the dataset, and we try…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-06-03 Alberto Costa , Fabio Roda

Recommender systems present a customized list of items based upon user or item characteristics with the objective of reducing a large number of possible choices to a smaller ranked set most likely to appeal to the user. A variety of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 William Noffsinger

Recommender engines have become an integral component in today's e-commerce systems. From recommending books in Amazon to finding friends in social networks such as Facebook, they have become omnipresent. Generally, recommender systems can…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Laknath Semage

Recommender system is currently widely used in many e-commerce systems, such as Amazon, eBay, and so on. It aims to help users to find items which they may be interested in. In literature, neighborhood-based collaborative filtering and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Yefeng Ruan , Tzu-Chun Lin

When building recommendation systems, we seek to output a helpful set of items to the user. Under the hood, a ranking model predicts which of two candidate items is better, and we must distill these pairwise comparisons into the user-facing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Anastasios N. Angelopoulos , Karl Krauth , Stephen Bates , Yixin Wang , Michael I. Jordan

In this paper, we investigate recommender systems from a network perspective and investigate recommendation networks, where nodes are items (e.g., movies) and edges are constructed from top-N recommendations (e.g., related movies). In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Daniel Lamprecht , Markus Strohmaier , Denis Helic

Recommender systems are present in many web applications to guide our choices. They increase sales and benefit sellers, but whether they benefit customers by providing relevant products is questionable. Here we introduce a model to examine…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Chi Ho Yeung

Mixture models are regularly used in density estimation applications, but the problem of estimating the mixing distribution remains a challenge. Nonparametric maximum likelihood produce estimates of the mixing distribution that are…

Computation · Statistics 2019-06-28 Minwoo Chae , Ryan Martin , Stephen G. Walker

For personalized ranking models, the well-calibrated probability of an item being preferred by a user has great practical value. While existing work shows promising results in image classification, probability calibration has not been much…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Wonbin Kweon , SeongKu Kang , Hwanjo Yu

Performing effective preference-based data retrieval requires detailed and preferentially meaningful structurized information about the current user as well as the items under consideration. A common problem is that representations of items…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-01-13 Joachim Selke , Wolf-Tilo Balke

A recommender system is an important subject in the field of data mining, where the item rating information from users is exploited and processed to make suitable recommendations with all other users. The recommender system creates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Tin T. Tran , Vaclav Snasel , Loc Tan Nguyen

A flexible approach for modeling both dynamic event counting and dynamic link-based networks based on counting processes is proposed, and estimation in these models is studied. We consider nonparametric likelihood based estimation of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Alexander Kreiß , Enno Mammen , Wolfgang Polonik

Recommender systems are central to modern online platforms, but a popular concern is that they may be pulling society in dangerous directions (e.g., towards filter bubbles). However, a challenge with measuring the effects of recommender…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Serina Chang , Johan Ugander

In this paper, we propose an approach to analyze the performance and the added value of automatic recommender systems in an industrial context. We show that recommender systems are multifaceted and can be organized around 4 structuring…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Frank Meyer , Françoise Fessant , Fabrice Clérot , Eric Gaussier

Most of the research in the recommender systems domain is focused on the optimization of the metrics based on historical data such as Mean Average Precision (MAP) or Recall. However, there is a gap between the research and industry since…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Michal Kompan , Peter Gaspar , Jakub Macina , Matus Cimerman , Maria Bielikova