Recommender Systems Using Linear Classifiers

Journal of Machine Learning Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 313-334

  Zhang, Tong ^a   Iyengar, Vijay S ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Decision trees; Linear models; Recommender systems; Unbalanced data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038547942     PISSN: 15324435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/153244302760200641     Document Type: Article

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