On over-specialization and concentration bias of recommendations: Probabilistic neighborhood selection in collaborative filtering systems

RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 153-160

  Adamopoulos, Panagiotis ^a   Tuzhilin, Alexander ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative filtering; Concentration bias; Diver sity; K PN; Long tail; Mobility; Over specialization; Popularity reinforcement; Probabilistic neighborhood selec tion

Indexed keywords

CARRIER MOBILITY; RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS; REINFORCEMENT;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING SYSTEMS; DIVER-SITY; FILTERING FRAMEWORK; LONG TAIL; OVER-SPECIALIZATION; PREDICTION ACCURACY; PROBABILISTIC METHODS; PROBABILISTIC NEIGHBORHOOD SELEC-TION;

COLLABORATIVE FILTERING;

EID: 84908889394     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2645710.2645752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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