Recomender System Challenges (Repaired)

Recommender System Challenges
Scalability Data Sparsity Cold Start Overfitting Diversity and

Problem Serendipity
Define:The Cold Start Problem refers to the challenge faced by recommender systems when
providing accurate recommendations for new users or items with limited historical data.
Example 1: The Cold Start Problem is when a librarian at a new library has trouble recommending
books to people because there isn't any information about what readers like yet.
Example 2: you just joined a new social media platform, and it's struggling to recommend people
for you to follow because you haven't posted anything or interacted with anyone yet.
Solutions of cold start problem
Collaborative based Content-Based Hybrid Approaches

recommendation Recommendations
DNN RNN CNN

Deep Neural Network Recurrent Neural network Convolutional neural network
Content-based recommendation is a methodology in recommender systems that

suggests items to users based on the similarity between item features and user
preferences.
RNN work
1. Input Layer: Represents sequences of movie genres watched over time by users.
2. Embedding Layer: Converts one-hot encoded genre vectors into dense, continuous vector
representations.
3. RNN Layer: Analyzes sequential data, computing new hidden states based on current inputs and
previous states to capture temporal dependencies.
4. Output Layer: Utilizes RNN output for tasks like predicting the next movie genre or generating
personalized recommendations tailored to user preferences.
1. One-Hot Encoded:
 One-hot encoding is a way to represent categorical data, like movie genres, as binary vectors.
 Each genre is represented by a vector of all zeros except for a single one at the index
corresponding to the genre.
 For example, if we have three genres: Action, Comedy, and Drama, the one-hot encoding
might look like this:
 Action: [1, 0, 0]
 Comedy: [0, 1, 0]
 Drama: [0, 0, 1]
 This encoding ensures that each genre is represented uniquely and independently.
2. Dense, Continuous Vector:
 In contrast to sparse vectors like one-hot encodings, dense vectors contain continuous values
for each dimension.
 Dense vectors represent information in a more compact form and allow for capturing
relationships and similarities between different genres.
 For example, if we use an embedding layer to convert one-hot encoded genre vectors into
dense vectors, the resulting representations might look like this:
 Action: [0.2, 0.8, -0.3]
 Comedy: [0.6, -0.4, 0.7]
 Drama: [-0.1, 0.3, 0.9]
 Each number in the dense vector represents a feature or characteristic of the genre, and the
values are continuous rather than binary.
 Dense vectors enable the model to learn more complex patterns and relationships between
genres in the data.
DATA SET
This section provides a detailed description of the datasets employed in the study. Dataset1 comprises
user-item interaction data, including userId, movieId, rating, and timestamp. Dataset2 enriches the
information with movie details, including movieId, title, and genres. Understanding the characteristics
of these datasets is essential for the subsequent stages of the research.
DATA SET 1
Dataset1: User-Item Interaction Data
Table 1: Sample of Dataset1 - User-Item Interaction Data
userId movieId rating timestamp
1 1 4 964982703
1 3 4 964981247
... ... ... ...
610 151 4 1479545584
Dataset2: Movie Details
Table 2: Sample of Dataset2 - Movie Details
movieId title genres
1 Toy Story (1995) Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy,

Fantasy
2 Jumanji (1995) Adventure, Children, Fantasy
... ... ...
193609 Andrew Dice Clay: Dice Rules Comedy

(1991)
Performance Metrics
Jaccard Index
The Jaccard Index is used to quantify the similarity between two sets. In the context of the
recommender system, it is applied to measure the similarity between the set of recommended items and
the set of actual user preferences. The formula for the Jaccard Index is given by:
J ( A , B)=¿ ¿
where A represents the set of actual user preferences, B represents the set of recommended items,
∣A∩B∣ is the size of the intersection, and ∣A∪B∣ is the size of the union.
Cosine Similarity
Cosine Similarity is a metric commonly used to measure the cosine of the angle between two non-zero
vectors. In the recommender system, it quantifies the similarity between the predicted preferences and
the actual user preferences. The formula for Cosine Similarity is given by:
Cosine Similarity ( A , B ) =| A|.∨B∨ ¿ ¿

|| A||.∨|B|∨¿ ¿
where A and B are vectors representing user preferences and recommended items, and ∥A∥ and ∥B∥
denote the Euclidean norms of the vectors.
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Recommender System Challenges

Scalability Data Sparsity Cold Start Overfitting Diversity and

Solutions of cold start problem

Collaborative based Content-Based Hybrid Approaches

DNN RNN CNN

Content-based recommendation is a methodology in recommender systems that

Dataset1: User-Item Interaction Data

Table 1: Sample of Dataset1 - User-Item Interaction Data

userId movieId rating timestamp

... ... ... ...

610 151 4 1479545584

Dataset2: Movie Details

Table 2: Sample of Dataset2 - Movie Details

movieId title genres

1 Toy Story (1995) Adventure, Animation, Children, Comedy,

2 Jumanji (1995) Adventure, Children, Fantasy

... ... ...

193609 Andrew Dice Clay: Dice Rules Comedy

Cosine Similarity ( A , B ) =| A|.∨B∨ ¿ ¿

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