addressing the new user problem with a personality based user similarity measure
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Addressing the New User Problem with a
Personality Based User Similarity Measure
Marko Tkalčič, Matevž Kunaver, Andrej Košir and Jurij Tasič
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Overview
Area overview
Problem statement
Proposed solution
Methodology
Results
Conclusion
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Collaborative filtering recommender systems
Which film should I watch tonight?
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Which film should I watch tonight?
Users space
Collaborative filtering recommender systems
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Which film should I watch tonight?
User similarity measure
Collaborative filtering recommender systems
Users space
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Which film should I watch tonight?
User similarity measure
Collaborative filtering recommender systems
Users space
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
User Similarity Measure (USM)
Baseline: rating-based USM
– Based on overlapping ratings
– Estimation of rating for observed user
Few ratings (m)NEW USER PROBLEM
(NUP) COLD START PROBLEM
(CSP)
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Problem statement
Number of overlapping ratings m
RS performance
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Problem statement
1. How to minimize the CSP?
Number of overlapping ratings m
RS performance
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Problem statement
1. How to minimize the NUP?
2. Where is the CSP boundary?
Number of overlapping ratings m
RS performance
?
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Proposed solution
1. How to minimize the CSP?
– Personality based USM
– Why? users with similar personalities tend to prefer similar items (presumption)
– + No need for ratings
– - Need for a startup questionnaire to assess personality
2. Where is the CSP boundary?
– Statistical test:
• H0: avg(Fs) = avg(Fs+1 )
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
What is personality?
... personality refers to the enduring patterns of thought, feeling, motivation and
behaviour that are expressed in different circumstances [Westen1999]
Five Factor Model (FFM)
FFM is a hierarchical organization of personality traits in terms of five basic
dimensions:
– extraversion (E),
– agreeableness (A),
– conscientiousness (C),
– neuroticism (N)
– openness (O)
These are the most important ways in which the individuals differ in their enduring
emotional, interpersonal, experiential, attitudinal and motivational styles
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Univerza v Ljubljani ..: Fakulteta za elektrotehniko:..
[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Methodology
Recommender system‘s task: estimate unrated items
Offline
Compare performance
– Baseline USM at different stages s (= CSP simulation)
– Personality based USM
Each user u is modeled with a five tuple b=(b1, b2, b3, b4, b5)
FFM acquisition with IPIP questionnaire (50 questions)
Distance between 2 users ui and uj
7 neighbors
Rating estimation
Evaluation:
– confusion matrix for ratings estimations F measure
– T test
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[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Dataset
LDOS-PerAff-1:
– I = 52 users
– J = 70 items (images from IAPS dataset)
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Results 1: p-values of USM comparison
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[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Results 2: p- values for CSP boundary
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[LDOS] ..: Laboratorij za digitalno obdelavo signalov, slik in videa:..
Conclusions
Proposed USM performs better in under cold start circumstances
– i.e. Personality accounts for between-users variance in entertainment apps
Proposed USM is equivalent under normal (non-CS) conditions
Drawbacks:
– Need for FFM assessment
– Ethical/privacy issues
– Evaluated on this dataset only
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Thank you
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IPIP questionnaire
Freely available
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Results: F measure boxplots