Large-scale bandit recommender system

Abstract

The main target of Recommender Systems (RS) is to propose to users one or several items in which they might be interested. However, as users provide more feedback, the recommendation process has to take these new data into consideration. The necessity of this update phase makes recommendation an intrinsically sequential task. A few approaches were recently proposed to address this issue, but they do not meet the need to scale up to real life applications. In this paper, we present a Collaborative Filtering RS method based on Matrix Factorization and Multi-Armed Bandits. This approach aims at good recommendations with a narrow computation time. Several experiments on large datasets show that the proposed approach performs personalized recommendations in less than a millisecond per recommendation.