• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.10
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• pp.777-785
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• 2009

Collaborative filtering is a technique used to predict whether a particular user will like a particular item. User-based or item-based collaborative techniques have been used extensively in many commercial recommender systems. In this paper, a hybrid collaborative filtering method that combines user-based and item-based methods using a low-dimensional linear model is proposed. The proposed method solves the problems of sparsity and a large database by using NMF among the low-dimensional linear models. In collaborative filtering systems the methods using the NMF are useful in expressing users as semantic relations. However, they are model-based methods and the process of computation is complex, so they can not recommend items dynamically. In order to complement the shortcomings, the proposed method clusters users into groups by using NMF and selects features of groups by using TF-IDF. Mutual information is then used to compute similarities between items. The proposed method clusters users into groups and extracts features of groups on offline and determines the most suitable group for an active user using the features of groups on online. Finally, the proposed method reduces the time required to classify an active user into a group and outperforms previous methods by combining user-based and item-based collaborative filtering methods.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.107-121
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• 2005

Recently, many researches on recommendation systems and collaborative filtering have been proceeding in both research and practice. However, although product items may have multi-valued attributes, previous studies did not reflect the multi-valued attributes. To overcome this limitation, this paper proposes new methodology for recommendation system. The proposed methodology uses multi-valued attributes based on clustering technique for items and applies the collaborative filtering to provide accurate recommendations. In the proposed methodology, both user clustering-based CBR and item attribute clustering-based CBR technique have been applied to the collaborative filtering to consider correlation of item to item as well as correlation of user to user. By using multi-valued attribute-based clustering technique for items, characteristics of items are identified clearly. Extensive experiments have been performed with MovieLens data to validate the proposed methodology. The results of the experiment show that the proposed methodology outperforms the benchmarked methodologies: Case Based Reasoning Collaborative Filtering (CBR_CF) and User Clustering Case Based Reasoning Collaborative Filtering (UC_CBR_CF).

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.13 no.9
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• pp.4684-4705
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• 2019

Collaborative filtering recommender systems are vulnerable to shilling attacks in which malicious users may inject biased profiles to promote or demote a particular item being recommended. To tackle this problem, many robust collaborative recommendation methods have been presented. Unfortunately, the robustness of most methods is improved at the expense of prediction accuracy. In this paper, we construct a robust Bayesian probabilistic matrix factorization model for collaborative filtering recommender systems by incorporating the detection of user anomaly rating behaviors. We first detect the anomaly rating behaviors of users by the modified K-means algorithm and target item identification method to generate an indicator matrix of attack users. Then we incorporate the indicator matrix of attack users to construct a robust Bayesian probabilistic matrix factorization model and based on which a robust collaborative recommendation algorithm is devised. The experimental results on the MovieLens and Netflix datasets show that our model can significantly improve the robustness and recommendation accuracy compared with three baseline methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.661-663
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• 2005

상업적인 추천 시스템에서 폭넓게 사용되고 있는 사용자 기반의 협력적 여과 방법 (User-Based Collaborative Filtering)은 확장성과 실시간 성능에 관련된 많은 제약을 갖는다. 이와 같은 맹점을 해결하기 위해 제안된 모델 기반의 협력적 여과 방법 (Model-Based Collaborative Filtering)은 추천은 매우 빠르지만, 모델을 구축하는 데 많은 시간이 소요되며, 사용자 기반의 협력적 여과 방법에 비해 추천의 질이 떨어지는 경향이 있다. 또한, 과거에 추천되있던 히스토리를 바탕으로 한 신뢰도 정보를 고려하는 추천 시스템은 추천의 정확도를 향상시키기 위한 다양한 연구 가운데 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 사용자 기반의 협력적 여과 방법의 문제점을 개선하고 추천의 정확도를 높이기 위해, 유사한 아이템의 모델을 미리 구축하는 아이템 기반의 협력적 여과 방법 (Item-Based Collaborative Filtering)에 각 아이템의 추천에 대한 신뢰도를 고려하여 보다 효율적인 추천 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 또한, 기존 추천 시스템과의 성능 비교 실험을 통해 제안한 방법의 타당성을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.151-153
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• 2017

In recommendation system, collaborative filtering is the most important algorithm. Collaborative filtering is a method of making automatic predictions about the interests of a user by collecting preferences or taste information from many users. In this paper five algorithms were used. Metrics such as Recall-Precision, FPR-TPR,RMSE, MSE, MAE were calculated. From the result of the experiment, the user-based collaborative filtering was the best approach to recommend movies to users.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.81-93
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• 2022

As deep learning technology in natural language and visual processing has rapidly developed, collaborative filtering-based recommendation systems using deep learning technology are being actively introduced in the recommendation field. In this study, OCF-GAN, a hybrid collaborative filtering model using GAN, was proposed to solve the one-class and cold-start problems, and its usefulness was verified through performance evaluation. OCF-GAN based on conditional GAN consists of a generator that generates a pattern similar to the actual user preference pattern and a discriminator that tries to distinguish the actual preference pattern from the generated preference pattern. When the training is completed, user preference vectors are generated based on the actual distribution of preferred items. In addition, the cold-start problem was solved by using a hybrid collaborative filtering recommendation method that additionally utilizes user and item profiles. As a result of the performance evaluation, it was found that the performance of the OCF-GAN with additional information was superior in all indicators of the Top 5 and Top 20 recommendations compared to the existing GAN-based recommender. This phenomenon was more clearly revealed in experiments with cold-start users and items.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.2948-2966
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• 2014

To promote recommendation services through prediction quality, some privacy-preserving collaborative filtering solutions are proposed to make e-commerce parties collaborate on partitioned data. It is almost probable that two parties hold ratings for the same users and items simultaneously; however, existing two-party privacy-preserving collaborative filtering solutions do not cover such overlaps. Since rating values and rated items are confidential, overlapping ratings make privacy-preservation more challenging. This study examines how to estimate predictions privately based on partitioned data with overlapped entries between two e-commerce companies. We consider both user-based and item-based collaborative filtering approaches and propose novel privacy-preserving collaborative filtering schemes in this sense. We also evaluate our schemes using real movie dataset, and the empirical outcomes show that the parties can promote collaborative services using our schemes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.10-12
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• 2003

Recommender systems help consumers to find the useful products from the overloaded information. Researchers have developed content-based recommenders, collaborative recommenders, and a few hybrid systems. In this research, we extend the classic collaborative recommenders by clustering method to form a hybrid recommender system. Using the clustering method, we can recommend the products based on not only the user ratings but also other useful information from user profiles or attributes of items. Through our experiments on well-known MovieLens data set, we found that the information provided by the attributes of item on the item-based collaborative filter shows advantage over the information provided by user profiles on the user-based collaborative filter.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• v.28 no.1_2
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• pp.439-450
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a new idea to evaluate the prediction accuracy of user's preference generated by memory-based collaborative filtering algorithm before prediction process in the recommender system. Our analysis results show the possibility of a pre-evaluation before the prediction process of users' preference of item's transaction on the web. Classification functions proposed in this study generate a user's rating pattern under certain conditions. In this research, we test whether classification functions select users who have lower prediction or higher prediction performance under collaborative filtering recommendation approach. The statistical test results will be based on the differences of the prediction accuracy of each user group which are classified by classification functions using the generative probability of specific rating. The characteristics of rating patterns of classified users will also be presented.

• Management Science and Financial Engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.137-153
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• 2005

Collaborative filtering-based recommendation systems make personalized recommendations based on users' ratings on products. Recommender systems must collect sufficient rating information from users to provide relevant recommendations because less user rating information results in poorer performance of recommender systems. To learn about new users, recommendation systems must first present users with an initial item list. In this study, we designed and analyzed seven selection strategies including the popularity, favorite, clustering, genre, and entropy methods. We investigated how these strategies performed using MovieLens, a public dataset. While the favorite and popularity methods tended to produce the highest average score and greatest average number of ratings, respectively, a hybrid of both favorite and popularity methods or a hybrid of demographic, favorite, and popularity methods also performed within acceptable ranges for both rating scores and numbers of ratings.