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Collaborative filtering generates recommendations by exploiting user-item similarities based on rating data, which often contains numerous unrated items. To predict scores for unrated items, matrix factorization techniques such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-30 Yukino Terui , Yuka Inoue , Yohei Hamakawa , Kosuke Tatsumura , Kazue Kudo

Matrix factorization models are the core of current commercial collaborative filtering Recommender Systems. This paper tested six representative matrix factorization models, using four collaborative filtering datasets. Experiments have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jesús Bobadilla , Jorge Dueñas-Lerín , Fernando Ortega , Abraham Gutierrez

Collaborative Filtering (CF) methods dominate real-world recommender systems given their ability to learn high-quality, sparse ID-embedding tables that effectively capture user preferences. These tables scale linearly with the number of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Donald Loveland , Xinyi Wu , Tong Zhao , Danai Koutra , Neil Shah , Mingxuan Ju

Matrix factorization has found incredible success and widespread application as a collaborative filtering based approach to recommendations. Unfortunately, incorporating additional sources of evidence, especially ones that are incomplete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-24 Nitish Gupta , Sameer Singh

I present a hybrid matrix factorisation model representing users and items as linear combinations of their content features' latent factors. The model outperforms both collaborative and content-based models in cold-start or sparse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Maciej Kula

Matrix factorization (MF) plays an important role in a wide range of machine learning and data mining models. MF is commonly used to obtain item embeddings and feature representations due to its ability to capture correlations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Faisal M. Almutairi , Yunlong Wang , Dong Wang , Emily Zhao , Nicholas D. Sidiropoulos

Collaborative filtering (CF) has been one of the most important and popular recommendation methods, which aims at predicting users' preferences (ratings) based on their past behaviors. Recently, various types of side information beyond the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Huan Zhao , Quanming Yao , Yangqiu Song , James Kwok , Dik Lun Lee

Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely used and effective technique for recommender systems. In recent decades, there have been significant advancements in latent embedding-based CF methods for improved accuracy, such as matrix…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yuntao Du , Jianxun Lian , Jing Yao , Xiting Wang , Mingqi Wu , Lu Chen , Yunjun Gao , Xing Xie

Federated recommender systems have distinct advantages in terms of privacy protection over traditional recommender systems that are centralized at a data center. However, previous work on federated recommender systems does not fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yujie Lin , Pengjie Ren , Zhumin Chen , Zhaochun Ren , Dongxiao Yu , Jun Ma , Maarten de Rijke , Xiuzhen Cheng

Over the past few years, deep learning has firmly established its prowess across various domains, including computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. Motivated by its outstanding success, researchers have been…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Wen Liang , Zeng Fan , Youzhi Liang , Jianguo Jia

Matrix factorization (MF) is one of the most efficient methods for rating predictions. MF learns user and item representations by factorizing the user-item rating matrix. Further, textual contents are integrated to conventional MF to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-13 ThaiBinh Nguyen , Atsuhiro Takasu

Recommender systems are emerging technologies that nowadays can be found in many applications such as Amazon, Netflix, and so on. These systems help users to find relevant information, recommendations, and their preferred items. Slightly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Nima Mirbakhsh , Charles X. Ling

The essence of the challenges cold start and sparsity in Recommender Systems (RS) is that the extant techniques, such as Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Matrix Factorization (MF), mainly rely on the user-item rating matrix, which sometimes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-05-27 Fangfang Li , Guandong Xu , Longbing Cao

Matrix Factorization (MF) has found numerous applications in Machine Learning and Data Mining, including collaborative filtering recommendation systems, dimensionality reduction, data visualization, and community detection. Motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Ioannis Kordonis , Emmanouil Theodosis , George Retsinas , Petros Maragos

Classic resource recommenders like Collaborative Filtering (CF) treat users as being just another entity, neglecting non-linear user-resource dynamics shaping attention and interpretation. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-02-02 Paul Seitlinger , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Ilire Hasani-Mavriqi , Tobias Ley , Elisabeth Lex

In recent years, neural networks and other complex models have dominated recommender systems, often setting new benchmarks for state-of-the-art performance. Yet, despite these advancements, award-winning research has demonstrated that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Pedro R. Pires , Rafael T. Sereicikas , Gregorio F. Azevedo , Tiago A. Almeida

Recommender systems are a kind of data filtering that guides the user to interesting and valuable resources within an extensive dataset. by providing suggestions of products that are expected to match their preferences. However, due to data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Sajida Mhammedi , Hakim El Massari , Noreddine Gherabi , Amnai Mohamed

Embedding based models have been the state of the art in collaborative filtering for over a decade. Traditionally, the dot product or higher order equivalents have been used to combine two or more embeddings, e.g., most notably in matrix…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-03 Steffen Rendle , Walid Krichene , Li Zhang , John Anderson

Much work on social media opinion polarization focuses on a flat categorization of stances (or orthogonal beliefs) of different communities from media traces. We extend in this work in two important respects. First, we detect not only…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Chaoqi Yang , Jinyang Li , Ruijie Wang , Shuochao Yao , Huajie Shao , Dongxin Liu , Shengzhong Liu , Tianshi Wang , Tarek F. Abdelzaher

Collaborative filtering is an effective recommendation approach in which the preference of a user on an item is predicted based on the preferences of other users with similar interests. A big challenge in using collaborative filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Yu Zhang , Bin Cao , Dit-Yan Yeung