{"title":"Session details: Doctoral symposium","authors":"Yi Zhang","doi":"10.1145/3249968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3249968","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116903323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A food recommender for patients in a care facility","authors":"Toon De Pessemier, Simon Dooms, L. Martens","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507198","url":null,"abstract":"In this research, a food recommendation strategy for patients in a care facility is proposed. Since many of these patients cannot express their personal preferences, a recommender system can assist the caregivers in the selection of the menu items that match the patients' preferences. Recommendations are generated based on three information sources: explicit ratings for menu items, implicit feedback based on the patient's eating behavior and the amount of food that was eaten, and inferred preferences for the ingredients of the menu items. In addition, monitoring the amount of food that was eaten by each patient can provide insights into the optimal amount of each menu item that has to be served to each patient. Furthermore, monitoring food consumption allows to detect irregularities in the eating behavior of the patient, which can be a symptom of illness.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123709975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recommendation opportunities: improving item prediction using weighted percentile methods in collaborative filtering systems","authors":"Panagiotis Adamopoulos, A. Tuzhilin","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507229","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel method for estimating unknown ratings and recommendation opportunities and illustrates the practical implementation of the proposed approach by presenting a certain variation of the classical k-NN method in neighborhood-based collaborative filtering systems using weighted percentiles. We conduct an empirical study showing that the proposed method outperforms the standard user-based collaborative filtering approach by a wide margin in terms of item prediction accuracy and utility-based ranking metrics across various experimental settings. We also demonstrate that this performance improvement is not achieved at the expense of other popular performance measures, such as catalog coverage and aggregate diversity. The proposed approach can also be applied to other popular methods for rating estimation.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125333498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amit Tiroshi, S. Berkovsky, M. Kâafar, Terence Chen, T. Kuflik
{"title":"Cross social networks interests predictions based ongraph features","authors":"Amit Tiroshi, S. Berkovsky, M. Kâafar, Terence Chen, T. Kuflik","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507206","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507206","url":null,"abstract":"The tremendous popularity of Online Social Networks (OSN) has led to situations, where users have their profiles spread across multiple networks. These partial profiles reflect different user characteristics, depending mainly on the nature of the network, e.g., Facebook's social vs. LinkedIn's professional focus. Combining data gathered by multiple networks may benefit individual users, and the community as a whole, as this could facilitate the provision of more accurate services and recommendations. This paper reports on an exploratory study of the process of making such recommendations using a unique multi-network dataset containing user interests across multiple domains, e.g., music, books, and movies. We represent the data using a graph model and generate recommendations using a set of features extracted from and populated by the model. We assess the contribution of various network- and domain-related features to the accuracy of the recommendations and motivate future work into automated feature selection.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126659184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sample selection for MCMC-based recommender systems","authors":"T. Silbermann, Immanuel Bayer, Steffen Rendle","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507224","url":null,"abstract":"Bayesian Inference with Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) has been shown to provide high prediction quality in recommender systems. The advantage over learning methods such as coordinate descent/alternating least-squares (ALS) or (stochastic) gradient descent (SGD) is that MCMC takes uncertainty into account and moreover MCMC can easily integrate priors to learn regularization values. For factorization models, MCMC inference can be done with efficient Gibbs samplers. However, MCMC algorithms are not point estimators, but they generate a chain of models. The whole chain of models is used to calculate predictions. For large scale models like factorization methods with millions or billions of model parameters, saving the whole chain of models is very storage intensive and can even get infeasible in practice. In this paper, we address this problem and show how a small subset from the chain of models can approximate the predictive distribution well. We use the fact that models from the chain are correlated and propose online selection techniques to store only a small subset of the models. We perform an empirical analysis on the large scale Netflix dataset with several Bayesian factorization models, including matrix factorization and SVD++. We show that the proposed selection techniques approximate the predictions well with only a small subset of model samples.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"147 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116249674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An analysis of tag-recommender evaluation procedures","authors":"Stephan Doerfel, R. Jäschke","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507222","url":null,"abstract":"Since the rise of collaborative tagging systems on the web, the tag recommendation task -- suggesting suitable tags to users of such systems while they add resources to their collection -- has been tackled. However, the (offline) evaluation of tag recommendation algorithms usually suffers from difficulties like the sparseness of the data or the cold start problem for new resources or users. Previous studies therefore often used so-called post-cores (specific subsets of the original datasets) for their experiments. In this paper, we conduct a large-scale experiment in which we analyze different tag recommendation algorithms on different cores of three real-world datasets. We show, that a recommender's performance depends on the particular core and explore correlations between performances on different cores.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127675863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RecSys challenge 2013","authors":"Jim Blomo, M. Ester, M. Field","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2508008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2508008","url":null,"abstract":"The 2013 Recommender Systems Challenge is associated with ACM RecSys 2013. Known as RecSys Challenge 2013, this is a LBS contest organized by Yelp. The theme of this year’s competition is personalized business recommendations for Yelp users. We provide a dataset on over 10,000 businesses, eight thousand check-in sites, 40 thousand users and 200 thousand reviews. Contestants are asked to predict the users’ future ratings on businesses. The competition starts on May 3, 2013 and ends on August 31, 2013.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126499609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"To personalize or not: a risk management perspective","authors":"Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Bowei Chen, Xiaoxue Zhao","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507167","url":null,"abstract":"Personalization techniques have been widely adopted in many recommender systems. However, experiments on real-world datasets show that for some users in certain contexts, personalized recommendations do not necessarily perform better than recommendations that rely purely on popularity. Broadly, this can be interpreted by the fact that the parameters of a personalization model are usually estimated from sparse data; the resulting personalized prediction, despite of its low bias, is often volatile. In this paper, we study the problem further by investigating into the ranking of recommendation lists. From a risk management and portfolio retrieval perspective, there is no difference between the popularity-based and the personalized ranking as both of the recommendation outputs can be represented as the trade-off between expected relevance (reward) and associated uncertainty (risk). Through our analysis, we discover common scenarios and provide a technique to predict whether personalization will fail. Besides the theoretical understanding, our experimental results show that the resulting switch algorithm, which decides whether or not to personalize, outperforms the mainstream recommendation algorithms.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126556027","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Session details: Industry session","authors":"Tao Zhou","doi":"10.1145/3249967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3249967","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125621034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Musical recommendations and personalization in a social network","authors":"D. Bugaychenko, A. Dzuba","doi":"10.1145/2507157.2507192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2507157.2507192","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a set of algorithms used for music recommendations and personalization in a general purpose social network www.ok.ru, the second largest social network in the CIS visited by more then 40 millions users per day. In addition to classical recommendation features like \"recommend a sequence\" and \"find similar items\" the paper describes novel algorithms for construction of context aware recommendations, personalization of the service, handling of the cold-start problem, and more. All algorithms described in the paper are working on-line and are able to detect and address changes in the user's behavior and needs in the real time. The core component of the algorithms is a taste graph containing information about different entities (users, tracks, artists, etc.) and relations between them (for example, user A likes song B with certainty X, track B created by artist C, artist C is similar to artist D with certainty Y and so on). Using the graph it is possible to select tracks a user would most probably like, to arrange them in a way that they match each other well, to estimate which items from a fixed list are most relevant for the user, and more. In addition, the paper describes the approach used to estimate algorithms efficiency and analyze the impact of different recommendation related features on the users' behavior and overall activity at the service.","PeriodicalId":225573,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 7th ACM conference on Recommender systems","volume":"43 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125753939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}