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Ranking-Based Implicit Regularization for One-Class Collaborative Filtering

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One-class collaborative filtering (OCCF) problems are ubiquitous in real-world recommendation systems, such as news recommendation, but suffer from data sparsity and lack of negative items. To address the challenge, the… Click to show full abstract

One-class collaborative filtering (OCCF) problems are ubiquitous in real-world recommendation systems, such as news recommendation, but suffer from data sparsity and lack of negative items. To address the challenge, the state-of-the-art algorithm assigns uninteracted items with smaller weights of being negative and performs low-rank approximation over the user-item interaction matrix. However, the prior ratings are usually suggested to be zero but may not be well-defined. To avert the direct utilization of prior ratings for uninteracted items, we propose a novel ranking-based implicit regularizer by hypothesizing that users’ preference scores for uninteracted items should not deviate a lot from each other. The regularizer is then used in a ranking-based OCCF framework to penalize large differences of preference scores between uninteracted items. To efficiently optimize model parameters in this framework, we develop the scalable alternating least square algorithm and coordinate descent algorithm, whose time complexity is linearly proportional to the data size. Finally, we extensively evaluate the proposed algorithms on six public real-world datasets. The results show that the proposed regularizer significantly improves the recommendation quality of ranking-based OCCF algorithms, such as BPRMF and RankALS. Moreover, the ranking-based framework with the proposed regularizer outperforms the state-of-the-art recommendation algorithms for implicit feedback.

Keywords: uninteracted items; one class; collaborative filtering; based implicit; class collaborative; ranking based

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Year Published: 2022

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