MODIFIED MATRIX FACTORIZATION OF CONTENT-BASED MODEL FOR RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM

摘要

A recommendation system is implemented using modified matrix factorization on top of a content-based matrix to provide both user-to-item and item-to-item content-based recommendations while exposing the full depth of transitive relationships among recommendations. Content information such as features and characteristics may be represented in a usage matrix in which features are treated as users would be in traditional matrix factorization. Matrix factorization is applied to the "features-as-users" matrix to build a content-based model in which features and items are embedded in a low dimension latent space. User history is employed for system training by locating user vectors within the latent space. Recommendations that are near to the vector can be provided to the users along with explanations (e.g., a recommendation is given because of an item's proximity to a particular feature).