Embarrassingly Shallow Autoencoders for Sparse Data

8 May 2019  ยท  Harald Steck ยท

Combining simple elements from the literature, we define a linear model that is geared toward sparse data, in particular implicit feedback data for recommender systems. We show that its training objective has a closed-form solution, and discuss the resulting conceptual insights. Surprisingly, this simple model achieves better ranking accuracy than various state-of-the-art collaborative-filtering approaches, including deep non-linear models, on most of the publicly available data-sets used in our experiments.

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Task Dataset Model Metric Name Metric Value Global Rank Result Benchmark
Recommendation Systems Million Song Dataset EASE Recall@20 0.333 # 1
Recall@50 0.428 # 1
nDCG@100 0.389 # 1
Recommendation Systems MovieLens 20M EASE Recall@20 0.391 # 7
Recall@50 0.521 # 7
nDCG@100 0.420 # 6
Recommendation Systems Netflix EASE Recall@20 0.362 # 2
Recall@50 0.445 # 4
nDCG@100 0.393 # 3

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