推荐系统

最近在学习Coursera上的Recommender System这门课，用这篇博客来记录。该课程大约持续3~4个月。
-第一周
Introduction to Recommender Systems
Basic Model:

• Users
• Items
• Ratings
• (Community) - users+items

Non-personalized Recommender (No need of models):

• External Community Data (Best-seller; most popular; trending hot)
• Summary of Community Ratings (Best-liked)
  比如： Zagat restaurant ratings, Billboard music rankings, TripAdvisor hotel ratings.

Content-Based Filtering
User ratings ∗ <script type="math/tex" id="MathJax-Element-157">*</script> Item attributes => Model
Aternative: Knowledge-based
- Item attributed from model of item space (users navigate/browse that space)

Collaborative Filtering Techniques

• User-user (user similarity; or pick people user trusts)
• Item-item (item similarity)
• Dimensionality reduction (compression -> low-dimensional matrix)

Note on Evaluation

• Accuracy of predictions
• Usefulness of recommendations
  
  • correctness
  • non-obviousness
  • diversity
• Computational performance

Other approaches
Interactive recommenders:

• Critique-based
• dialog-based