Exploiting side information for effective recommendation

• Main Author: Sha, Xiao
• Other Authors: Zhang Jie
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/155781
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Recommender systems have become an essential tool in online applications to help alleviate the information overload problem. Much research effort has been devoted to traditional collaborative filtering (CF), which, however, suffers from the data sparsity and cold start problems. To ease these issues...