A maximum entropy approach for collaborative filtering

Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems for Signal, Image, and Video Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 2-3, 2004, Pages 199-209

  Browning, John ^a   Miller, David J ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Iterative scaling; Latent clustering; Maximum entropy; Naive Bayes

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; ITERATIVE METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; WEBSITES;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING; ITERATIVE SCALING; LATENT CLUSTERING; MAXIMUM ENTROPY; NAIVE BAYES;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 3543101946     PISSN: 13875485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:VLSI.0000027485.11890.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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