Probabilistic approaches to recommendations

Probabilistic approaches to recommendations /

The importance of accurate recommender systems has been widely recognized by academia and industry, and recommendation is rapidly becoming one of the most successful applications of data mining and machine learning. Understanding and predicting the choices and preferences of users is a challenging t...

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Main Authors: Barbieri, Nicola (Computer scientist) (Author), Manco, Giuseppe (Author), Ritacco, Ettore (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2014]
Series:Synthesis lectures on data mining and knowledge discovery ; #9.
Subjects:
Recommender systems (Information filtering) > Statistical methods.
Probabilities.
probability.
Recommender systems (Information filtering)
Statistics.
Online Access:Connect to this title online
Table of Contents:
  • The recommendation process
  • Probabilistic models for collaborative filtering
  • Bayesian modeling
  • Exploiting probabilistic models
  • Contextual information
  • Social recommender systems
  • Parameter estimation and inference.
  • 1. The recommendation process
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Formal framework
  • 1.2.1 Evaluation
  • 1.2.2 Main challenges
  • 1.3 Recommendation as information filtering
  • 1.3.1 Demographic filtering
  • 1.3.2 Content-based filtering
  • 1.4 Collaborative filtering
  • 1.4.1 Neighborhood-based approaches
  • 1.4.2 Latent factor models
  • 1.4.3 Baseline models and collaborative filtering.
  • 2. Probabilistic models for collaborative filtering
  • 2.1 Predictive modeling
  • 2.2 Mixture membership models
  • 2.2.1 Mixtures and predictive modeling
  • 2.2.2 Model-based co-clustering
  • 2.3 Probabilistic latent semantic models
  • 2.3.1 Probabilistic latent semantic analysis
  • 2.3.2 Probabilistic matrix factorization
  • 2.4 Summary.
  • 3. Bayesian modeling
  • 3.1 Bayesian regularization and model selection
  • 3.2 Latent Dirichlet allocation
  • 3.2.1 Inference and parameter estimation
  • 3.2.2 Bayesian topic models for recommendation
  • 3.3 Bayesian co-clustering
  • 3.3.1 Hierarchical models
  • 3.4 Bayesian matrix factorization
  • 3.5 Summary.
  • 4. Exploiting probabilistic models
  • 4.1 Probabilistic modeling and decision theory
  • 4.1.1 Minimizing the prediction error
  • 4.1.2 Recommendation accuracy
  • 4.2 Beyond prediction accuracy
  • 4.2.1 Data analysis with topic models
  • 4.2.2 Pattern discovery using co-clusters
  • 4.2.3 Diversification with topic models.
  • 5. Contextual information
  • 5.1 Integrating content features
  • 5.1.1 The cold-start problem
  • 5.1.2 Modeling text and preferences
  • 5.2 Sequential modeling
  • 5.2.1 Markov models
  • 5.2.2 Probabilistic tensor factorization.
  • 6. Social recommender systems
  • 6.1 Modeling social rating networks
  • 6.2 Probabilistic approaches for social rating networks
  • 6.2.1 Network-aware topic models
  • 6.2.2 Social probabilistic matrix factorization
  • 6.2.3 Stochastic block models for social rating networks
  • 6.3 Influence in social networks
  • 6.3.1 Identifying social influence
  • 6.3.2 Influence maximization and viral marketing
  • 6.3.3 Exploiting influence in recommender systems.
  • 7. Conclusions
  • 7.1 Application-specific challenges
  • 7.2 Technological challenges.
  • A. Parameter estimation and inference
  • A1. The expectation maximization algorithm
  • A2. Variational inference
  • A3. Gibbs sampling
  • Bibliography
  • Authors' biographies.

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