An improved collaborative filtering method based on similarity.

PLoS One

School of Information Science and Technology, Northwest University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

Published: March 2019

The recommender system is widely used in the field of e-commerce and plays an important role in guiding customers to make smart decisions. Although many algorithms are available in the recommender system, collaborative filtering is still one of the most used and successful recommendation technologies. In collaborative filtering, similarity calculation is the main issue. In order to improve the accuracy and quality of recommendations, we proposed an improved similarity model, which takes three impact factors of similarity into account to minimize the deviation of similarity calculation. Compared with the traditional similarity measure, the advantages of our proposed model are that it makes full use of rating data and solves the problem of co-rated items. To validate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, experiments were performed on four datasets. Results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the preferences of the recommender system and it is suitable for the sparsity data.

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