Content-Aware Listwise Collaborative Filtering

Rabeh Ravanifard, Abdolreza Mirzaei, Wray L. Buntine, Mehran Safayani

Abstract: Highlights•A probabilistic model is proposed that integrates content information about items, represented as bag-of-words, with ranking-oriented collaborative filtering.•This model tries to solve cold-start problem using side information.•This model use topic modeling methods to model content information and extract topics.•This model outperforms previous models including rating-oriented and ranking-oriented collaborative filtering methods in most cases.