Diversity Balancing in Two-Stage Collaborative Filtering for Book Recommendation Systems

Abstract

A book recommender system is a system used to provide relevant book recommendations for readers. One approach that is often used in recommender systems is Collaborative Filtering (CF). CF provides book recommendations based on books liked by other similar users. However, CF only provides recommendations for items that are popular, so items that are less popular will be difficult to recommend. Therefore, we propose a book recommendation system based on Two-stages CF using the Diversity Balancing method. Diversity Balancing method in CF is used to balance diversity in the recommendation results by replacing popular items with less popular relevant items. System accuracy is measured using precision and recall, while diversity is measured using personal diversity and aggregate diversity. The test results show that the accuracy of the proposed system increases with the increasing number of recommended items. meanwhile, the diversity of recommended items continues to decrease as more items are included in the recommendation list. In consideration of the trade-off between accuracy and diversity, our system achieves a recall score of 0.301, a precision score of 0.282, a PD score of 0.048, and an AD score of 0.095 with a recommendation list size of 8 items.