User Rating Prediction Based on Trust-Driven Probabilistic Matrix Factorization

The development of Internet has brought convenience to the public, but also troubles users in making choices among enormous data. Thus, recommender systems based on user understanding are urgently in need. Different from the traditional techniques that usually focus on individual users, the social-based recommender systems perform better with integrating social influence modeling to achieve more accurate user profiling. However, current works usually generalize influence in simple mode, while deep discussions on intrinsic mechanism have been largely ignored. To solve this problem, this paper studies the social influence within users who affects both rating and user attributes, and then proposes a novel trust-driven PMF (TPMF) algorithm to merge these two mechanisms. Furthermore, to deal with the task that different user should have personalized parameters, the study clusters users according to rating correlation and then maps them to corresponding weights, thereby achieving the personalized selection of users' model parameters. Comprehensive experiments on open data sets validate that TPMF and its derivation algorithm can effectively predict users' rating compared with several state of the art baselines, which demonstrates the capability of the presented influence mechanism and technical framework. © Copyright 2018, Institute of Software, the Chinese Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.