Collaborative filtering recommendation based on conditional probability and weight adjusting Online publication date: Sun, 25-Jan-2015
by Haitao Wu; Wen-Kuang Chou; Ningbo Hao; Duan Wang; Jingfu Li
International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE), Vol. 10, No. 1/2, 2015
Abstract: Collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm is one of the most successful technologies for building recommender systems. However, a user-based collaborative filtering method has its limits related to similarity and ratings. To avoid those limits, we propose a new item-based collaborative filtering algorithm based on conditional probability and weight adjusting in this paper. At first, any two items are selected to compute the similarity from common user ratings, and only the items with the similarity greater than preset thresholds are chosen as the set of supporting items. Then an integral parameter, that is the frequency of two items present simultaneously, is used to adjusted similarity weights. Finally, a new algorithm combining conditional probability and weight adjusting is proposed to predict ratings. The experimental results show the proposed algorithm is feasible and effective in practice.
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