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Effects Of The High-Order Correlation On Information Filtering

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  • LEI LIU

    (School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China)

  • JIAN-GUO LIU

    (School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China;
    Research Center of Complex Systems Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China)

  • JING NI

    (School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China)

  • RUI LENG

    (School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China;
    Research Center of Complex Systems Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China)

  • KERUI SHI

    (School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China;
    Research Center of Complex Systems Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China)

  • QIANG GUO

    (School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China;
    Research Center of Complex Systems Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China;
    Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, Fribourg CH-1700, Switzerland)

  • XIAOMING XU

    (School of Business, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai 200093, P. R. China)

Abstract

In this paper, we empirically investigate the statistical properties of the user correlation network in terms of their common rated objects on MovieLens, and find that it has high clustering coefficient and ultra small average distance, which is close to the fully connected network. We argue that the above characteristics come from the fact that large-degree objects build lots of fully connected subnetworks by using the node projection method. By introducing the user global similarity, measured by the product of two users' similarity vectors, we present an effective way to identify users' specific interests by weakening the mainstream interests and noise interests. Numerical results show that we are able to obtain accurate and diverse recommendations by considering the second-order correlation redundant information simultaneously, which outperforms the state-of-the-art collaborative filtering (CF) methods. This work suggests that statistical properties of the user correlation network is an important factor to improve the performances of information filtering algorithms.

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  • Lei Liu & Jian-Guo Liu & Jing Ni & Rui Leng & Kerui Shi & Qiang Guo & Xiaoming Xu, 2012. "Effects Of The High-Order Correlation On Information Filtering," International Journal of Modern Physics C (IJMPC), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 23(06), pages 1-15.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:ijmpcx:v:23:y:2012:i:06:n:s0129183112500453
    DOI: 10.1142/S0129183112500453
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