An Overview of Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithm

Abstract

Recommendation algorithm is the most core and key point in recommender systems, and plays a decisive role in type and performance evaluation. At present collaborative filtering recommendation not only is the most widely useful and successful recommend technology, but also is a promotion for the study of the whole recommender systems. The research on the recommender systems is coming into a focus and critical problem at home and abroad. Firstly, the latest development and research in the collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm are introduced. Secondly, the primary idea and difficulties faced with the algorithm are explained in detail. Some classical solutions are used to deal with the problems such as data sparseness, cold start and augmentability. Thirdly, the particular evaluation method of the algorithm is put forward and the developments of collaborative filtering algorithm are prospected.