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Publicações por João Vinagre

2017

Scalable Online Top-N Recommender Systems

Autores
Jorge, AM; Vinagre, J; Domingues, M; Gama, J; Soares, C; Matuszyk, P; Spiliopoulou, M;

Publicação
E-COMMERCE AND WEB TECHNOLOGIES, EC-WEB 2016

Abstract
Given the large volumes and dynamics of data that recommender systems currently have to deal with, we look at online stream based approaches that are able to cope with high throughput observations. In this paper we describe work on incremental neighborhood based and incremental matrix factorization approaches for binary ratings, starting with a general introduction, looking at various approaches and describing existing enhancements. We refer to recent work on forgetting techniques and multidimensional recommendation. We will also focus on adequate procedures for the evaluation of online recommender algorithms.

2017

Improving Incremental Recommenders with Online Bagging

Autores
Vinagre, J; Jorge, AM; Gama, J;

Publicação
PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (EPIA 2017)

Abstract
Online recommender systems often deal with continuous, potentially fast and unbounded flows of data. Ensemble methods for recommender systems have been used in the past in batch algorithms, however they have never been studied with incremental algorithms that learn from data streams. We evaluate online bagging with an incremental matrix factorization algorithm for top-N recommendation with positiveonly user feedback, often known as binary ratings. Our results show that online bagging is able to improve accuracy up to 35% over the baseline, with small computational overhead.

2015

An overview on the exploitation of time in collaborative filtering

Autores
Vinagre, J; Jorge, AM; Gama, J;

Publicação
WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-DATA MINING AND KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY

Abstract
Classic Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithms rely on the assumption that data are static and we usually disregard the temporal effects in natural user-generated data. These temporal effects include user preference drifts and shifts, seasonal effects, inclusion of new users, and items entering the systemand old ones leavinguser and item activity rate fluctuations and other similar time-related phenomena. These phenomena continuously change the underlying relations between users and items that recommendation algorithms essentially try to capture. In the past few years, a new generation of CF algorithms has emerged, using the time dimension as a key factor to improve recommendation models. In this overview, we present a comprehensive analysis of these algorithms and identify important challenges to be faced in the near future.(C) 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

2018

Forgetting techniques for stream-based matrix factorization in recommender systems

Autores
Matuszyk, P; Vinagre, J; Spiliopoulou, M; Jorge, AM; Gama, J;

Publicação
KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Abstract
Forgetting is often considered a malfunction of intelligent agents; however, in a changing world forgetting has an essential advantage. It provides means of adaptation to changes by removing effects of obsolete (not necessarily old) information from models. This also applies to intelligent systems, such as recommender systems, which learn users' preferences and predict future items of interest. In this work, we present unsupervised forgetting techniques that make recommender systems adapt to changes of users' preferences over time. We propose eleven techniques that select obsolete information and three algorithms that enforce the forgetting in different ways. In our evaluation on real-world datasets, we show that forgetting obsolete information significantly improves predictive power of recommender systems.

2018

Incremental Matrix Co-factorization for Recommender Systems with Implicit Feedback

Autores
Anyosa, SC; Vinagre, J; Jorge, AM;

Publicação
Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018, WWW 2018, Lyon , France, April 23-27, 2018

Abstract
Recommender systems try to predict which items a user will prefer. Traditional models for recommendation only take into account the user-item interaction, usually expressed by explicit ratings. However, in these days, web services continuously generate auxiliary data from users and items that can be incorporated into the recommendation model to improve recommendations. In this work, we propose an incremental Matrix Co-factorization model with implicit user feedback, considering a real-world data-stream scenario. This model can be seen as an extension of the conventional Matrix Factorization that includes additional dimensions to be decomposed in the common latent factor space. We test our proposal against a baseline algorithm that relies exclusively on interaction data, using prequential evaluation. Our experimental results show a significant improvement in the accuracy of recommendations, after incorporating an additional dimension in three music domain datasets. © 2018 IW3C2 (International World Wide Web Conference Committee), published under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 License.

2018

ORSUM Chairs' Welcome & Organization

Autores
Jorge, A; Vinagre, J; Matuszyk, P; Spiliopoulou, M;

Publicação
Companion of the The Web Conference 2018 on The Web Conference 2018, WWW 2018, Lyon , France, April 23-27, 2018

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