中国物理B ›› 2015, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (7): 78901-078901.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/24/7/078901

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An improved recommendation algorithm via weakening indirect linkage effect

陈光, 邱天, 沈小泉   

  1. School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China
  • 收稿日期:2014-10-24 修回日期:2015-02-02 出版日期:2015-07-05 发布日期:2015-07-05
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11175079) and the Young Scientist Training Project of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant No. 20133BCB23017).

An improved recommendation algorithm via weakening indirect linkage effect

Chen Guang (陈光), Qiu Tian (邱天), Shen Xiao-Quan (沈小泉)   

  1. School of Information Engineering, Nanchang Hangkong University, Nanchang 330063, China
  • Received:2014-10-24 Revised:2015-02-02 Online:2015-07-05 Published:2015-07-05
  • Contact: Qiu Tian E-mail:tianqiu.edu@gmail.com
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11175079) and the Young Scientist Training Project of Jiangxi Province, China (Grant No. 20133BCB23017).

摘要: We propose an indirect-link-weakened mass diffusion method (IMD), by considering the indirect linkage and the source object heterogeneity effect in the mass diffusion (MD) recommendation method. Experimental results on the MovieLens, Netflix, and RYM datasets show that, the IMD method greatly improves both the recommendation accuracy and diversity, compared with a heterogeneity-weakened MD method (HMD), which only considers the source object heterogeneity. Moreover, the recommendation accuracy of the cold objects is also better elevated in the IMD than the HMD method. It suggests that eliminating the redundancy induced by the indirect linkages could have a prominent effect on the recommendation efficiency in the MD method.

关键词: bipartite network, mass diffusion, recommender system, indirect linkage effect

Abstract: We propose an indirect-link-weakened mass diffusion method (IMD), by considering the indirect linkage and the source object heterogeneity effect in the mass diffusion (MD) recommendation method. Experimental results on the MovieLens, Netflix, and RYM datasets show that, the IMD method greatly improves both the recommendation accuracy and diversity, compared with a heterogeneity-weakened MD method (HMD), which only considers the source object heterogeneity. Moreover, the recommendation accuracy of the cold objects is also better elevated in the IMD than the HMD method. It suggests that eliminating the redundancy induced by the indirect linkages could have a prominent effect on the recommendation efficiency in the MD method.

Key words: bipartite network, mass diffusion, recommender system, indirect linkage effect

中图分类号:  (Networks and genealogical trees)

  • 89.75.Hc
87.23.Ge (Dynamics of social systems) 05.70.Ln (Nonequilibrium and irreversible thermodynamics)