Distributed user profiling via spectral methods

User profiling is a useful primitive for constructing personalised services, such as content recommendation. In the present paper we investigate the feasibility of user profiling in a distributed setting, with no central authority and only local information exchanges between users. We compute a prof...

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Main Authors: Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Laurent Massoulié
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) 2014-09-01
Series:Stochastic Systems
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Online Access:http://www.i-journals.org/ssy/viewarticle.php?id=36&layout=abstract