A new item similarity based on α-divergence for collaborative filtering in sparse data

Y Wang, P Wang, Z Liu, LY Zhang - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
In big data era, collaborative filtering as one of the most popular recommendation
techniques plays an important role to promote the development of online trade. Similarity …

Improving jaccard index for measuring similarity in collaborative filtering

S Lee - Information Science and Applications 2017: ICISA …, 2017 - Springer
In collaborative filtering-based recommender systems, items are recommended by
consulting ratings of similar users. However, if the number of ratings to compute similarity is …

A novel recommendation model with Google similarity

TCK Huang, YL Chen, MC Chen - Decision support systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Previous studies on collaborative filtering have mainly adopted local resources as the basis
for conducting analyses, and user rating matrices have been used to perform similarity …

Enhancing recommendation accuracy of item-based collaborative filtering using Bhattacharyya coefficient and most similar item

PK Singh, M Sinha, S Das, P Choudhury - Applied Intelligence, 2020 - Springer
The item-based collaborative filtering technique recommends an item to the user from the
rating of k-nearest items. Generally, a random value of k is considered to find nearest …

A new similarity measure using Bhattacharyya coefficient for collaborative filtering in sparse data

BK Patra, R Launonen, V Ollikainen, S Nandi - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
Collaborative filtering (CF) is the most successful approach for personalized product or
service recommendations. Neighborhood based collaborative filtering is an important class …

An improved collaborative filtering method based on similarity

J Feng, X Fengs, N Zhang, J Peng - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The recommender system is widely used in the field of e-commerce and plays an important
role in guiding customers to make smart decisions. Although many algorithms are available …

A comparative study of different similarity metrics in highly sparse rating dataset

PK Singh, PKD Pramanik, P Choudhury - Data Management, Analytics and …, 2019 - Springer
Recommender system has been popularly used for recommending products and services to
the online buyers and users. Collaborative Filtering (CF) is one of the most popular filtering …

A hybrid similarity model for mitigating the cold-start problem of collaborative filtering in sparse data

J Guan, B Chen, S Yu - Expert Systems with Applications, 2024 - Elsevier
Similarity is a vital component for neighborhood-based collaborative filtering (CF). To
improve the quality of recommendation, many similarity methods have been proposed and …

A fusion collaborative filtering method for sparse data in recommender systems

C Feng, J Liang, P Song, Z Wang - Information Sciences, 2020 - Elsevier
Collaborative filtering is a fundamental technique in recommender systems, for which
memory-based and matrix-factorization-based collaborative filtering are the two types of …

An improved similarity calculation method for collaborative filtering-based recommendation, considering neighbor's liking and disliking of categorical attributes of items

PK Singh, PKD Pramanik… - Journal of information and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Similarity measures play an important role in the accuracy of collaborative filtering based
recommendation. Due to non-availability of adequate co-rated users, the accuracy of …