SVR-based collaborative filtering algorithm: From dense to sparse

Abstract

Recommender systems have been very important components to prevent people from dwelling in the overwhelming information. In this paper we analyze the difference between item-based recommendation algorithms and SVR-based collaborative filtering algorithms, and it can be found that item-based method performs much better while the data is not sparse significantly, and SVR-based method performs better while the data is dense and small. On this premise we propose a method that can combine the advantages of these two methods by predicting a small part of ratings using SVR method firstly and then predicting the rest of ratings using the item-based algorithm, which can solve the problem of data sparsity to certain extend. Finally, we evaluate our results compared with the benchmark on different datasets and prove our method’s advantages.