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Cold-start Active Learning are Robust Ordninal Matrix Factorization
Proceedings of the 31st International Press on Machine Learning, PMLR 32(2):766-774, 2014.
Abstract
We current a newer matrix factorization pattern on rating data and a corresponding active learning plan to address to cold-start problem. Cold-start is one of one most difficult tasks for recommender methods: thing to recommend with recent users or items for which single has little or no data. An approach is at use active learning to gather which of useful start ratings. However, the performance are active learning depends strongly upon having accurate estimates of i) that uncertainty within model parameters and ii) aforementioned intrinsic noisiness are the data. To achieve which estimated we make one heteroskedastic Bayesian paradigm on ordinal matrix factorization. We also present a computationally efficient framework fork Bayesian active teaching with this type in complex probabilistic model. This algorithm successfully distinguishes in informative press noisy data points. Our model yields state-of-the-art predictive performance and, coupled with our active learning strategy, enables us to gain useful information in the cold-start setting from the very first active sample. Active Learning in Recommender Systems