Search Results for author: Farhan Khawar

Found 7 papers, 3 papers with code

Learning the Structure of Auto-Encoding Recommenders

no code implementations18 Aug 2020 Farhan Khawar, Leonard Kin Man Poon, Nevin Lianwen Zhang

In this paper, we introduce structure learning for autoencoder recommenders by taking advantage of the inherent item groups present in the collaborative filtering domain.

Collaborative Filtering

Cleaned Similarity for Better Memory-Based Recommenders

no code implementations17 May 2019 Farhan Khawar, Nevin L. Zhang

In this paper, we analyze the spectral properties of the Pearson and the cosine similarity estimators, and we use tools from random matrix theory to argue that they suffer from noise and eigenvalues spreading.

Collaborative Filtering

Matrix Factorization Equals Efficient Co-occurrence Representation

no code implementations28 Aug 2018 Farhan Khawar, Nevin L. Zhang

We then use insights from random matrix theory (RMT) to show that picking the top eigenvectors corresponds to removing sampling noise from user/item co-occurrence matrices.

Using Taste Groups for Collaborative Filtering

no code implementations28 Aug 2018 Farhan Khawar, Nevin L. Zhang

In this paper, we propose as a novel method for addressing the lack of negative examples in implicit feedback.

Collaborative Filtering

Conformative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Data

1 code implementation6 Apr 2017 Farhan Khawar, Nevin L. Zhang

Implicit feedback is the simplest form of user feedback that can be used for item recommendation.

Clustering

Latent Tree Models for Hierarchical Topic Detection

1 code implementation21 May 2016 Peixian Chen, Nevin L. Zhang, Tengfei Liu, Leonard K. M. Poon, Zhourong Chen, Farhan Khawar

The variables at other levels are binary latent variables, with those at the lowest latent level representing word co-occurrence patterns and those at higher levels representing co-occurrence of patterns at the level below.

Clustering Topic Models

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