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Recommender systems are widely used in e-commerce, movies, music, social media, and other fields because of their personalized recommendation functions. The recommendation algorithm is used to capture user preferences, item characteristics, and the items that users are interested in are recommended to users. Matrix factorization is widely used in collaborative filtering algorithms because of its simplicity and efficiency. However, the simple dot-product method cannot establish a nonlinear relationship between user latent features and item latent features or make full use of their personalized information. The model of a neural network combined with an attention mechanism can effectively establish a nonlinear relationship between the potential features of users and items and improve the recommendation accuracy of the model. However, it is difficult for the general attention mechanism algorithm to solve the problem of attention interaction when the number of features between the users and items is not the same. To solve the above problems, this paper proposes an attention interaction matrix factorization (AIMF) model. The AIMF model adopts a symmetric structure using MLP calculation. This structure can simultaneously extract the nonlinear features of user latent features and item latent features, thus reducing the computation time of the model. In addition, an improved attention algorithm named slide-attention is included in the model. The algorithm uses the sliding query method to obtain the user's attention to the latent features of the item and solves the interaction problem among different dimensions of the user, and the latent features of the item. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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E-commerce is essential application in world wide. In everyday live, we cannot escape from e-commerce transaction. E-commerce requires intelligent machine to deliver product information to customer. Intelligent machine popular called recommender system developed by matrix factorization. Rating is representation of customer expression for satisfied product or service. Unfortunately, number of ratings is too sparse due to majority customer lazy to give rating for e-commerce product. Number of sparse rating matrix have impact in matrix factorization in rating prediction. Moreover, extreme sparse rating has impact degrade performance significantly. Many researchers consider to enhance matrix factorization using customer and product information such as customer demographics information, customer testimony, product review, product description, and etc. In this research, we consider to incorporating Stack Denoising Auto Encoder (SDAE), attention mechanism aims to enhance product review document understanding representation and matrix factorization based on Probabilistic Matric Factorization (PMF) to produce rating prediction. According to experiment report, our model superior over previous work based on hybrid model between PMF, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and SDAE that popular called PHD in 1%, and superior over hybrid model between PMF, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) and SDAE that popular called DDL-PMF in 0.9%, and achieved significantly in 8% over traditional PMF based on RMSE evaluation metrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The autoencoder network has been proven to be one of the powerful techniques for recommender systems. Currently, the ways of utilizing autoencoder in recommender systems can be divided into two categories: modeling user-item interaction rely solely on autoencoder and integrating autoencoder with other models. Most existing methods based on autoencoder assume that all features of model's input are equally the same contributing to the final prediction, which can be regarded as attention weight vectors; however, this hypothesis is not reliable, especially when exploring users' interaction frequency with different items. Moreover, combining autoencoder with traditional methods, the usual strategy is to leverage a linear kernel of the inner product of user and item vectors to predict user preferences, which will lead to insufficient expression power and hurt the performance of recommendation when facing data sparsity and cold start problems. To tackle the above two problems, we propose a novel hybrid deep learning model for top-n recommendation, called attentive stacked sparse autoencoder (A-SAERec), which can capture attention weights vector of a user for items, and then combined with the neural matrix factorization to improve the performance of recommender model. Extensive experiments on four real-world datasets show that our A-SAERec algorithm has significant improvements over state-of-the-art algorithms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As there is a huge amount of information on the Internet, people have difficulty in sorting through it to find the required information; thus, the information overload problem becomes a significant issue for users and online businesses. To resolve this problem, many researchers and applications have proposed recommender systems, which apply user-based collaborative filtering, meaning it only considers the users' rating history to analyze their preferences. However, users' text data may contain users' preferences or sentiment information, and such information can be used to analyze users' preferences more precisely. This work proposes a method called the aspect-based deep learning rating prediction method (ADLRP), which can extract the aspects, sentiment, and semantic features from users' and items' reviews. Then, the deep learning method is used to generate users' and items' latent factors. According to these three features, the matrix factorization method is applied to make rating predictions for items. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than the traditional rating prediction methods and conventional artificial neural networks. The proposed method can precisely and efficiently extract the sentiments and semantics of each aspect from review texts and enhance the prediction performance of rating predictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the rich semantics of attribute information has become a great supplement to the ratings data in designing recommender systems, fusing attributes information into ratings has shown promising performance for many recommendation tasks. However, the use of attribute information is not easy, because different attributes are often: (1) multi-source, that is, attributes may come from many different fields, (2) unstructured, (3) unbalanced, (4) heterogeneous. In this paper, we explore effective fusion of user-item ratings and item attributes to improve recommendations, we propose an attribute-aware deep attentive recommendation model, which embeds attribute information into the latent semantic space of items through the attention mechanism, forming more accurate item representations. Extensive experiments show that our method is superior to the existing methods on both rating prediction and Top-N Recommendation tasks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collaborative filtering method is widely used in the traditional recommendation system. The collaborative filtering method based on matrix factorization treats the user's preference for the item as a linear combination of the user and the item latent vectors, and cannot learn a deeper feature representation. In addition, the cold start and data sparsity remain major problems for collaborative filtering. To tackle these problems, some scholars have proposed to use deep neural network to extract text information, but did not consider the impact of long-distance dependent information and key information on their models. In this paper, we propose a neural collaborative filtering recommender method that integrates user and item auxiliary information. This method fully integrates user-item rating information, user assistance information and item text assistance information for feature extraction. First, Stacked Denoising Auto Encoder is used to extract user features, and Gated Recurrent Unit with auxiliary information is used to extract items' latent vectors, respectively. The attention mechanism is used to learn key information when extracting text features. Second, the latent vectors learned by deep learning techniques are used in multi-layer nonlinear networks to learn more abstract and deeper feature representations to predict user preferences. According to the verification results on the MovieLens data set, the proposed model outperforms other traditional approaches and deep learning models making it state of the art. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the primary tasks for commercial recommender systems is to predict the probabilities of users clicking items, e.g., advertisements, music and products. This is because such predictions have a decisive impact on profitability. The classic recommendation algorithm, collaborative filtering (CF), still plays a vital role in many industrial recommender systems. However, although straight CF is good at capturing similar users' preferences for items based on their past interactions, it lacks regarding (1) modeling the influences of users' sequential patterns from their individual history interaction sequences and (2) the relevance of users' and items' attributes. In this work, we developed an attention-based latent information extraction network (ALIEN) for click-through rate prediction, to integrate (1) implicit user similarity in terms of click patterns (analogous to CF), and (2) modeling the low and high-order feature interactions and (3) historical sequence information. The new model is based on the deep learning, which goes beyond the capabilities of econometric approaches, such as matrix factorization (MF) and k-means. In addition, the approach provides explainability to the recommendation by interpreting the contributions of different features and historical interactions. We have conducted experiments on real-world datasets that demonstrate considerable improvements over strong baselines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Matrix factorization is widely used in collaborative filtering, especially when the data are extremely large and sparse. To deal with the scale and sparsity problem of data, several recommender models adopt users and items' side information to improve the recommendation results. However, some existing works do not perform well enough for they are not effectively use the side information. For example, using bag-of-words model, topic model to gain the latent representation of words or merely utilizing items or users' side information, leads to the result that the performance deteriorates, especially when rating dataset is extremely large and sparse. To overcome the data sparsity problem, we present a hybrid model named robust attention convolutional matrix factorization (RACMF) model, which is composed of attention convolutional neural network (ACNN) and additional stacked denoising autoencoder (aSDAE); ACNN and aSDAE are used to extract the items' and users' latent factors, respectively. The experimental results show that our RACMF model has good prediction ability, even when the rating data are sparse or the scale of rating data is large. What's more, compared with the state-of-the-art model PHD, the present model RACMF increased the accuracy rate on ML-100k, ML-1m, ML-10m and AIV-6 datasets by 4.80%, 0.57%, 1.98% and 3.67%, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Matrix Factorization (MF) is one of the most intuitive and effective methods in the Recommendation System domain. It projects sparse (user, item) interactions into dense feature products which endues strong generality to the MF model. To leverage this interaction, recent works use auxiliary information of users and items. Despite effectiveness, irrationality still exists among these methods, since almost all of them simply add the feature of auxiliary information in dense latent space to the feature of the user or item. In this work, we propose a novel model named AANMF, short for Attribute-aware Attentional Neural Matrix Factorization. AANMF combines two main parts, namely, neural-network-based factorization architecture for modeling inner product and attention-mechanism-based attribute processing cell for attribute handling. Extensive experiments on two real- world data sets demonstrate the robust and stronger performance of our model. Notably, we show that our model can deal with the attributes of user or item more reasonably. Our implementation of AANMF is publicly available at https://github.com/Holy-Shine/AANMF. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The emergence of the recommendation system has effectively alleviated the information overload problem. However, traditional recommendation systems either ignore the rich attribute information of users and items, such as the user's social-demographic features, the item's content features, etc., facing the sparsity problem, or adopt the fully connected network to concatenate the attribute information, ignoring the interaction between the attribute information. In this paper, we propose the information fusion-based deep neural attentive matrix factorization (IFDNAMF) recommendation model, which introduces the attribute information and adopts the element-wise product between the different information domains to learn the cross-features when conducting information fusion. In addition, the attention mechanism is utilized to distinguish the importance of different cross-features on prediction results. In addition, the IFDNAMF adopts the deep neural network to learn the high-order interaction between users and items. Meanwhile, we conduct extensive experiments on two datasets: MovieLens and Book-crossing, and demonstrate the feasibility and effectiveness of the model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]