Hybrid Variational Autoencoder for Recommender Systems
| Autor: | Hangbin Zhang, Victor W. Chu, Raymond K. Wong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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General Computer Science
business.industry Computer science Gaussian Space (commercial competition) Recommender system Machine learning computer.software_genre ENCODE Autoencoder symbols.namesake Collaborative filtering symbols Hybrid solution Multinomial distribution Artificial intelligence business computer |
| Zdroj: | ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. 16:1-37 |
| ISSN: | 1556-472X 1556-4681 |
| DOI: | 10.1145/3470659 |
| Popis: | E-commerce platforms heavily rely on automatic personalized recommender systems, e.g., collaborative filtering models, to improve customer experience. Some hybrid models have been proposed recently to address the deficiency of existing models. However, their performances drop significantly when the dataset is sparse. Most of the recent works failed to fully address this shortcoming. At most, some of them only tried to alleviate the problem by considering either user side or item side content information. In this article, we propose a novel recommender model called Hybrid Variational Autoencoder (HVAE) to improve the performance on sparse datasets. Different from the existing approaches, we encode both user and item information into a latent space for semantic relevance measurement. In parallel, we utilize collaborative filtering to find the implicit factors of users and items, and combine their outputs to deliver a hybrid solution. In addition, we compare the performance of Gaussian distribution and multinomial distribution in learning the representations of the textual data. Our experiment results show that HVAE is able to significantly outperform state-of-the-art models with robust performance. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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