A Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithm Based on User Attributes and Matrix Completion

Abstract

Collaborative filtering is a popular strategy in recommendation system. Traditional collaborative filtering relies on the user-item rating matrix that encodes the individual ratings of users for items to make recommendations. However, in the real-world, the rating matrix is highly sparse, and many new users do not have rating records, thus traditional collaborative filtering could not provide satisfactory recommendations. To alleviate this issue, we propose a hybrid algorithm that utilizes LMaFit to complete rating matrix, reducing the degree of sparsity, and provides a hybrid user-similarity to supply a good support for recommending to new users in the condition of cold start. Extensive experiment results on real-world datasets show the proposed algorithm has a better performance than other methods.