CRTL: Context Restoration Transfer Learning for Cross-Domain Recommendations

Autor: Ming He, Jiuling Zhang
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: IEEE Intelligent Systems. 36:65-72
ISSN: 1941-1294
1541-1672
Popis: Among different recommendation techniques, collaborative filtering usually suffers from limited performance due to the data sparsity problem. Transfer learning presents an unprecedented opportunity to alleviate this issue by transferring rating patterns from the source domain to the target domain. However, an issue occurs in some situations when the source and target domains have unrelated parts to each other, such that a negative transfer may reduce the learning performance in the target domain. To address this issue, in this article, we present a novel model called cluster rating bias restoration to divide the learning process into two stages. First, we employ traditional transfer learning methods to adapt and reconstruct the target rating matrix. Second, we propose a cluster rating bias restoration framework specifically to minimize the effect of the negative transfer from the source domain and to restore the context-information-based rating bias trend in the target domain. Experiments on real-world datasets show that our proposed model outperforms the state-of-the-art alternatives.
Databáze: OpenAIRE