2011
A Robust Collaborative Filtering Algorithm Using Ordered Logistic Regression
S. Zheng, T. Jiang and J. S. Baras
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011), pp. 1-6, Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011.
Abstract
The Internet offers tremendous opportunities for
information sharing and content distribution. However, without
proper filtering and selection, the large amount of information
may likely swarm the users rather than benefit them. Collaborative
filtering is a technique for extracting useful information
from the large information pool generated by interconnected
online communities. In this paper, we develop a probabilistic
collaborative filtering algorithm, which is based on ordered
logistic regression and takes into account both similarities among
the users and similarities among the items. We make inference
with maximum likelihood and Bayesian frameworks, and propose
a Markov Chain Monte Carlo based Expectation Maximization
algorithm to optimize model parameters. The power of our
proposed algorithm is its extensibility. We show that it can
incorporate content and contextual information. More importantly,
it can be easily extended to include the trustworthiness
of users, thus being more robust to malicious data manipulation.
The experimental results on a real world data set show that
our proposed algorithm with the trust extension is robust under
different types of attacks in recommendation systems.