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Optimization of the Similarity Measure for User-based Collaborative Filtering Systems

사용자 기반의 협력필터링 시스템을 위한 유사도 측정의 최적화

  • Received : 2015.10.13
  • Accepted : 2016.01.20
  • Published : 2016.01.30
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Abstract

Measuring similarity in collaborative filtering-based recommender systems greatly affects system performance. This is because items are recommended from other similar users. In order to overcome the biggest problem of traditional similarity measures, i.e., data sparsity problem, this study suggests a new similarity measure that is the optimal combination of previous similarity and the value reflecting the number of co-rated items. We conducted experiments with various conditions to evaluate performance of the proposed measure. As a result, the proposed measure yielded much better performance than previous ones in terms of prediction qualities, specifically the maximum of about 7% improvement over the traditional Pearson correlation and about 4% over the cosine similarity.

협력 필터링 기반의 추천시스템에서 유사도 측정은 시스템의 성능에 큰 영향을 미치는데, 이는 유사한 다른 사용자들로부터 항목을 추천받기 때문이다. 본 연구에서는 전통적인 유사도 측정 방법의 가장 큰 문제인 데이터 희소성을 극복하기 위해, 기존의 유사도 측정값과 공통평가항목수의 반영값을 최적으로 결합하는 새로운 유사도 측정방식을 제안한다. 제안 방식의 성능 평가를 위해 다양한 조건으로 실험한 결과 기존 방식들보다 우수한 예측 정확도를 나타냈으며, 구체적으로 전통적인 피어슨 상관보다 최대 약 7%, 코사인 유사도보다는 최대 약 4% 향상된 결과를 보였다.

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