Local implicit feedback mining for music recommendation

Diyi Yang, Tianqi Chen, Weinan Zhang, Qiuxia Lu, Yong Yu

Abstract: Digital music has experienced a quite fascinating transformation during the past decades. Thousands of people share or distribute their music collections on the Internet, resulting in an explosive increase of information and more user dependence on automatic recommender systems. Though there are many techniques such as collaborative filtering, most approaches focus mainly on users' global behaviors, neglecting local actions and the specific properties of music. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective local implicit feedback model mining users' local preferences to get better recommendation performance in both rating and ranking prediction. Moreover, we design an efficient training algorithm to speed up the updating procedure, and give a method to find the most appropriate time granularity to assist the performance. We conduct various experiments to evaluate the performance of this model, which show that it outperforms baseline model significantly. Integration with existing temporal models achieves a great improvement compared to the reported best single model for Yahoo! Music.