Title: Diversifying the predictions in the recommender systems

Authors: Bam Bahadur Sinha; R. Dhanalakshmi; Vinnakota Saran Chaitanya

Addresses: National Institute of Technology Nagaland, Dimapur, Nagaland 797103, India ' National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, 609609, India ' National Institute of Technology Puducherry, Karaikal, 609609, India

Abstract: In pursuance of building a recommender system, the existing collaborative filtering model often fails to provide a diversified list of recommendation to the end user. Most of the existing models target accuracy and thus fails in avoiding the uniformity dullness from the recommended list. In our paper, we have made use of imputation technique to cut-off sparsity and employed graph-based algorithm to generate a diversified list of recommendations in order to prevent the aforementioned problem of over specialisation. A substantial coverage evaluation on MovieLens dataset demonstrates the fruitfulness of our proposed graph-based model.

Keywords: aggregate diversity; graph-based algorithm; collaborative filtering; data sparsity; imputation; over specialisation; coverage.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIS.2021.119183

International Journal of Business Information Systems, 2021 Vol.38 No.2, pp.168 - 178

Received: 15 Feb 2019
Accepted: 02 May 2019
Published online: 29 Nov 2021 *

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