Evaluating recommender behavior for new users

Daniel Kluver; Joseph A. Konstan

doi:10.1145/2645710.2645742

Evaluating recommender behavior for new users

Daniel Kluver, Joseph A. Konstan

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

The new user experience is one of the important problems in recommender systems. Past work on recommending for new users has focused on the process of gathering information from the user. Our work focuses on how different algorithms behave for new users. We describe a methodology that we use to compare representatives of three common families of algorithms along eleven different metrics. We find that for the first few ratings a baseline algorithm performs better than three common collaborative filtering algorithms. Once we have a few ratings, we find that Funk's SVD algorithm has the best overall performance. We also find that ItemItem, a very commonly deployed algorithm, performs very poorly for new users. Our results can inform the design of interfaces and algorithms for new users.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	121-128
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450326681
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2645710.2645742
State	Published - Oct 6 2014
Event	8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2014 - Foster City, United States Duration: Oct 6 2014 → Oct 10 2014

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Name	RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

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Other	8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Foster City
Period	10/6/14 → 10/10/14

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Keywords

Evaluation
New user experience
New user problem
Profile size
Recommender systems
User cold start

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Evaluating recommender behavior for new users. / Kluver, Daniel; Konstan, Joseph A.
RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 121-128 (RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems).

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Kluver, D & Konstan, JA 2014, Evaluating recommender behavior for new users. in RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. RecSys 2014 - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 121-128, 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, RecSys 2014, Foster City, United States, 10/6/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2645710.2645742

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