Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016.

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Main Author: Li, Yihua, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Other Authors: Devavrat Shah.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105983
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spelling mit-1721.1/1059832019-04-11T09:55:24Z Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion Li, Yihua, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology Devavrat Shah. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 37-39). Neighborhood-based Collaborative filtering (CF) methods have proven to be successful in practice and are widely applied in commercial recommendation systems. Yet theoretical understanding of their performance is lacking. In this work, we introduce a new framework of Blind Regression which assumes that there are latent features associated with input variables, and we observe outputs of some Lipschitz continuous function over those unobserved features. We apply our framework to the problem of matrix completion and give a nonparametric method which, similar to CF, combines the local estimates according to the distance between the neighbors. We use the sample variance of the difference in ratings between neighbors as the proximity of the distance. Through error analysis, we show that the minimum sample variance is a good proxy of the prediction error in the estimates. Experiments on real-world datasets suggests that our matrix completion algorithm outperforms classic user-user and item-item CF approaches. Finally, our framework easily extends to the setting of higher-order tensors and we present our algorithm for tensor completion. The result from real-world application of image inpainting demonstrates that our method is competitive with the state-of-the-art tensor factorization approaches in terms of predictive performance. by Yihua Li. M. Eng. 2016-12-22T15:17:25Z 2016-12-22T15:17:25Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105983 965786624 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 x, 39 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology
spellingShingle Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Li, Yihua, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
title Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
title_full Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
title_fullStr Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
title_full_unstemmed Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
title_short Blind regression : understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
title_sort blind regression understanding collaborative filtering from matrix completion to tensor completion
topic Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105983
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