User-Specific Bicluster-based Collaborative Filtering: Handling Preference Locality, Sparsity and Subjectivity
Collaborative Filtering (CF), the most common approach to build Recommender Systems, became pervasive in our daily lives as consumers of products and services. However, challenges limit the effectiveness of Collaborative Filtering approaches when dealing with recommendation data, mainly due to the diversity and locality of user preferences, structural sparsity of user-item ratings, subjectivity of rating scales, and increasingly high item dimensionality and user bases. To answer some of these challenges, some authors proposed successful approaches combining CF with Biclustering techniques. This work assesses the effectiveness of Biclustering approaches for CF, comparing the impact of algorithmic choices, and identifies principles for superior Biclustering-based CF. As a result, we propose USBFC, a Biclustering-based CF approach that creates user-specific models from strongly coherent and statistically significant rating patterns, corresponding to subspaces of shared preferences across users. Evaluation on real-world data reveals that USBCF achieves competitive predictive accuracy against state-of-the-art CF methods. Moreover, USBFC successfully suppresses the main shortcomings of the previously proposed state-of-the-art biclustering-based CF by increasing coverage, and coclustering-based CF by strengthening subspace homogeneity.
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