Matrix Factorization Techniques for Context-Aware Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems: A Survey

Date

2018-01-24

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1913-8989

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Publisher

Canadian Center of Science and Education

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Article

Peer reviewed

Yes

Abstract

Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems predict user preferences for online information, products or services by learning from past user-item relationships. A predominant approach to Collaborative Filtering is Neighborhood-based, where a user-item preference rating is computed from ratings of similar items and/or users. This approach encounters data sparsity and scalability limitations as the volume of accessible information and the active users continue to grow leading to performance degradation, poor quality recommendations and inaccurate predictions. Despite these drawbacks, the problem of information overload has led to great interests in personalization techniques. The incorporation of context information and Matrix and Tensor Factorization techniques have proved to be a promising solution to some of these challenges. We conducted a focused review of literature in the areas of Context-aware Recommender Systems utilizing Matrix Factorization approaches. This survey paper presents a detailed literature review of Context-aware Recommender Systems and approaches to improving performance for large scale datasets and the impact of incorporating contextual information on the quality and accuracy of the recommendation. The results of this survey can be used as a basic reference for improving and optimizing existing Context-aware Collaborative Filtering based Recommender Systems. The main contribution of this paper is a survey of Matrix Factorization techniques for Context-aware Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems.

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open access article

Keywords

Collaborative filtering, Context- aware, Matrix factorization, Performance improvemen, Accuracy of predictions, Quality of recommendations

Citation

Abdi, M.H., Okeyo, G., Mwangi, R.W. (2018) Matrix Factorization Techniques for Context-Aware Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems: A Survey. Computer and Information Science, 11(2),

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Research Institute