Collaborative Filtering-Based Recommendation System Using Time Decay Model

Collaborative Filtering-Based Recommendation System Using Time Decay Model

Jayaraman Parthasarathy, Ramesh Babu Kalivaradhan
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/IJeC.2021070106
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Abstract

Online collaborative movie recommendation systems attempt to help customers accessing their favourable movies by gathering exactly comparable neighbors between the movies from their chronological identical ratings. Collaborative filtering-based movie recommendation systems require viewer-specific data, and the need for collecting viewer-specific data diminishes the effectiveness of the recommendation. To solve this problem, the authors employ an effective multi-armed bandit called upper confidence bound, which is applied to automatically recommend the movies for the users. In addition, the concept of time decay is provided in a mathematical definition that redefines the dynamic item-to-item similarity. Then, two patterns of time decay are analyzed, namely concave and convex functions, for simulation. The experiment test the MovieLens 100K dataset. The proposed method attains a maximum F-measure of 98.45 whereas the existing method reaches a minimum F-measure of only 95.60. The presented model adaptively responds to new users, can provide a better service, and generate more user engagement.
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1. Introduction

In the present era, the growth of mobile gadgets and services has changed the people's routine lives highlyreliant. Using a mobile device, people can attain information regarding business, goods information, promoting information, and recommending information. Another significant application is movie recommendation. A movie Recommender System (RS) accomplished as a productive device by offering helpful information and opinion about movies for other consumers.The motivation behind giving recommendations is to help the exertion of clients and encourages them to distinguish appropriate motion pictures quickly and agreeable (Basu et al., 1998). Unique in relation to the prerequisite of Personal Computers (PCs), versatile administrations are stressed on accuracy that requirements speedy calculation just as estimation structure specialist organizations.Hence, movie recommendation through mobile services is required to be advanced on both recommendation accuracy and timeliness.

Movie recommendation is an extensive and complex operation that involves different tastes for users, different genres in movies, and so forth (Xu et al., 2014).Hence numerous quantities of models are displayed to determine the issues.. For instance, collaborative filtering (CoF) RS, content-based RS, and hybrid RS. Every method owns different benefits in resolving particular issues. Assuming the utilization of internet data and content provided by customers, CoF should be a familiar and widely organized model in RS. CoF recommends items through the measurement of identity among clients, while resemblanceamong the users’ favourite could be measured through correlation determination. By this method, clients who have the same intention of movies are grouped similarly, and then the movies are recommended using ratings and reviews of concern movies they watched. Therefore, correlation and similarity are tedious to estimate because of sparsity in the user's basic information, like users’ ratings on movies they have seen and their watching history. Generally, reviews provided by users regarding movies mostly consist of the client priority. Moreover, avoiding sentiment where customers face a challenging issue in movie recommendation. Recently, many numbers of people are enthusiastic about posting their reviews online, where they can write their priority and feelings about the movies viewed.

The main problem exists here is to identify the neighbours. From the provided several numbers of movies, massive items in profile, and more number of users, the network should identify rapid predictions more realistic. It is necessary for an effective RS. Initially, neighbours of users for whom recommendations to be made is found. This phase computes the similarity among the targeted users and corresponding neighbours. Next, the identity between target clients and neighbours are operated and gathered for detection. Once a prediction is processed, some of the goods that go beyond a specific threshold would be recommended for the fixed user. The above operations involve a difficult process and significant in having effective techniques for completing the process. The second problem is to calculate an accurate rating. Data regarding the neighbours are required prior to prediction done, yet finding neighbours are complex. Each user offers different reviews independently. Even, the neighbours are found, the accuracy of similarities could be identified. The third challenge is the problem of cold start and data sparsity. RS does not have the ability to providean exact prediction whenever there is no major data to be worked. Because of the scantiness of accessible information, the selection of neighbour may become very complex. The final challenge faced by conventional RSis to face the weight of niche movies which is not factored to the prediction estimation. Two movie watchers that consist of one niche movie in similar have more general tastes than those who contain single mainstream movies commonly.

Bandit techniques and A/B tests are the best options of anonymous audiences since there are no expectations of viewer specific information to identify the best variants. This is mostly used for choosing optimal ad blockers for showing else selecting among website formatting styles. However, bandits could be utilized at any cost, where the number of options with the various rates of positive user communication. It also offers a major advantage when the cost is linked with creating the suboptimal view. This algorithm handles dynamically exploration and exploitation. They begin to use every probable choice, but frequent shifting towards selecting extended choices until anyone has prevailed as an optimal solution.

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