Algorithm Optimization for Cold Start of Collaborative Filtering System

Abstract

With the development of network technology, the amount of information on the network has grown and expanded rapidly with an exponential law, and its information organization is heterogeneous, diverse, and distributed. With the vigorous development of Internet information services, the scale of its information resources has also exploded. For ordinary users, the problems of “information trek” and “information overload” on the Internet are becoming increasingly serious. In order to solve the problem of information overload, recommendation system has become an indispensable tool for today’s e-commerce platform, which can help users find valuable information quickly. Collaborative filtering-based recommendation algorithms have been widely applied and studied in recommendation systems. Although the collaborative filtering algorithm has been widely used, there are still problems such as data sparsity, scalability, and cold start, which seriously limit the quality of recommendations. Therefore, collaborative filtering algorithms face many challenges. Especially recommendation systems using collaborative filtering technology. This article discusses the cold start system, the cold start user, and the cold start scenario. Effective use of project content information and user personal information is one of the effective methods to solve the cold start problem, that is, a hybrid recommendation technology combining information filtering and collaborative filtering. This paper proposes a hybrid recommendation technology that can better solve the cold start problem.