Differences in Recommender Algorithms

In this line of work, I have been trying to understand what is different about the output of various collaborative filtering techniques, particularly as such differences relate to the user's perception of the recommendations and the ability of the recommender to meet their information needs.

  • RecSys15
    2015

    Michael D. Ekstrand, Daniel Kluver, F. Maxwell Harper, and Joseph A. Konstan.

2015. Letting Users Choose Recommender Algorithms: An Experimental Study. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '15). ACM. DOI 10.1145/2792838.2800195. Acceptance rate: 21%. Cited 90 times. Cited 104 times.

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⸘2014‽
2014

Michael D. Ekstrand. 2014. Towards Recommender Engineering: Tools and Experiments in Recommender Differences. Ph.D thesis, University of Minnesota. HDL 11299/165307. Cited 5 times. Cited 8 times.

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RecSys14
2014

Michael D. Ekstrand, F. Maxwell Harper, Martijn C. Willemsen, and Joseph A. Konstan. 2014. User Perception of Differences in Recommender Algorithms. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '14). ACM. DOI 10.1145/2645710.2645737. Acceptance rate: 23%. Cited 155 times. Cited 210 times.

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RecSys12-f
2012

Michael Ekstrand and John Riedl. 2012. When Recommenders Fail: Predicting Recommender Failure for Algorithm Selection and Combination. Short paper in Proceedings of the Sixth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '12). ACM, pp. 233–236. DOI 10.1145/2365952.2366002. Acceptance rate: 32%. Cited 63 times. Cited 73 times.