Using social graphs in one-class collaborative filtering problem

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Kaya, Hamza

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One-class collaborative filtering is a special type of collaborative filtering methods that aims to deal with datasets that lack counter-examples. In this work, we introduced social networks as a new data source to the one-class collaborative filtering (OCCF) methods and sought ways to benefit from them when dealing with OCCF problems. We divided our research into two parts. In the first part, we proposed different weighting schemes based on social graphs for some well known OCCF algorithms. One of the weighting schemes we proposed outperformed our baselines for some of the datasets we used. In the second part, we focused on the dataset differences in order to find out why our algorithm performed better on some of the datasets. We compared social graphs with the graphs of users and their neighbors generated by the k-NN algorithm. Our research showed that social graphs generated from a specialized domain better improves the recommendation performance than the social graphs generated from a more generic domain.

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Computer enginnering., Computer software.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/18945

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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H. Kaya, “Using social graphs in one-class collaborative filtering problem,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2009.