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The visual semantic embedding (VSE) aims to construct a joint embedding space between visual features and semantic information, whereby classes can be well retrieved for a given image. However, VSE faces the computational challenge due to the large scale image-class data and the constrained system processing power. To speed up model training, many researchers resort to different sampling strategies by involving only a small portion of the classes at each training step. However, these methods are greatly biased especially when the sampling distribution deviates from the true data distribution. In order to retain VSE models fidelity, we adopt the regular full-sample in our algorithm. We also devise two separate optimization strategies to reduce time complexity, and derive more effective updating rules. The experimental results on four real datasets demonstrate that our approach not only converges much faster than the state-of-the-art sampling models, but also generates more accurate class retrieval. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We propose TrustSVD, a trust-based matrix factorization technique for recommendations. TrustSVD integrates multiple information sources into the recommendation model in order to reduce the data sparsity and cold start problems and their degradation of recommendation performance. An analysis of social trust data from four real-world data sets suggests that not only the explicit but also the implicit influence of both ratings and trust should be taken into consideration in a recommendation model. TrustSVD therefore builds on top of a state-of-the-art recommendation algorithm, SVD++ (which uses the explicit and implicit influence of rated items), by further incorporating both the explicit and implicit influence of trusted and trusting users on the prediction of items for an active user. The proposed technique is the first to extend SVD++ with social trust information. Experimental results on the four data sets demonstrate that TrustSVD achieves better accuracy than other ten counterparts recommendation techniques. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]