With the sheer growth of online user data, it becomes challenging to develop preference learning algorithms that are sufficiently flexible in modeling but also affordable in com...
Kai Yu, Shenghuo Zhu, John D. Lafferty, Yihong Gon...
Abstract--Collaborating agents require either prior agreement on the shared vocabularies that they use for communication, or some means of translating between their private ontolog...
Heather S. Packer, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. J...
Discrete mixed membership modeling and continuous latent factor modeling (also known as matrix factorization) are two popular, complementary approaches to dyadic data analysis. In...
Faceted search is becoming a popular method to allow users to interactively search and navigate complex information spaces. A faceted search system presents users with keyvalue me...
Collaborative filtering (CF) has been successfully deployed over the years to compute predictions on items based on a user's correlation with a set of peers. The black-box na...
Barry Smyth, Brynjar Gretarsson, John O'Donovan, S...