UIPC-MF: User-Item Prototype Connection Matrix Factorization for Explainable Collaborative Filtering

Lei Pan*, Von Wun Soo

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In recent years, prototypes have gained traction as an interpretability concept in the Computer Vision Domain, and have also been explored in Recommender System algorithms. This paper introduces UIPC-MF, an innovative prototype-based matrix factorization technique aimed at offering explainable collaborative filtering recommendations. Within UIPC-MF, both users and items link with prototype sets that encapsulate general collaborative features. UIPC-MF uniquely learns connection weights, highlighting the relationship between user and item prototypes, offering a fresh method for determining the final predicted score beyond the conventional dot product. Comparative results show that UIPC-MF surpasses other prototype-based benchmarks in Hit Ratio and Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain across three datasets, while enhancing transparency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining - 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2024, Proceedings
EditorsDe-Nian Yang, Xing Xie, Vincent S. Tseng, Jian Pei, Jen-Wei Huang, Jerry Chun-Wei Lin
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages170-181
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9789819722648
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2024 - Taipei, Taiwan
Duration: 07 05 202410 05 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume14649 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2024
Country/TerritoryTaiwan
CityTaipei
Period07/05/2410/05/24

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024.

Keywords

  • collaborative filtering
  • explainable recommender system
  • prototype

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