Effective movie recommendation based on improved densenet model

Abstract

In recent times, recommendation systems provide suggestions for users by means of songs, products, movies, books, etc. based on a database. Usually, the movie recommendation system predicts the movies liked by the user based on attributes present in the database. The movie recommendation system is one of the widespread, useful and efficient applications for individuals in watching movies with minimal decision time. Several attempts are made by the researchers in resolving these problems like purchasing books, watching movies, etc. through developing a recommendation system. The majority of recommendation systems fail in addressing data sparsity, cold start issues, and malicious attacks. To overcome the above-stated problems, a new movie recommendation system is developed in this manuscript. Initially, the input data is acquired from Movielens 1M, Movielens 100K, Yahoo Y-10-10, and Yahoo Y-20-20 databases. Next, the data are rescaled using a min-max normalization technique that helps in handling the outlier efficiently. At last, the denoised data are fed to the improved DenseNet model for a relevant movie recommendation, where the developed model includes a weighting factor and class-balanced loss function for better handling of overfitting risk. Then, the experimental result indicates that the improved DenseNet model almost reduced by 5 to 10% of error values, and improved by around 2% of f-measure, precision, and recall values related to the conventional models on the Movielens 1M, Movielens 100K, Yahoo Y-10-10, and Yahoo Y-20-20 databases.