Extended Latent Class Models for Collaborative Recommendation

Kwok Wai Cheung*, Kwok Ching Tsui, Jiming Liu

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

With the advent of the World Wide Web, providing just-in-time personalized product recommendations to customers now becomes possible. Collaborative recommender systems utilize correlation between customer preference ratings to identify "like-minded" customers and predict their product preference. One factor determining the success of the recommender systems is the prediction accuracy, which in many cases is limited by lacking adequate ratings (the sparsity problem). Recently, the use of latent class model (LCM) has been proposed to alleviate this problem. In this paper, we first study how the LCM can be extended to handle customers and products outside the training set. In addition, we propose the use of a pair of LCMs (called dual latent class model-DLCM), instead of a single LCM, to model customers' likes and dislikes separately for enhancing the prediction accuracy. Experimental results based on the EachMovie dataset show that DLCM outperforms both LCM and the conventional correlation-based method when the available ratings are sparse.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)143-148
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans
Volume34
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2004

Scopus Subject Areas

  • Software
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

User-Defined Keywords

  • Collaborative fitering
  • Latent class models (LCMs)
  • Personalization
  • Recommender systems

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