Collaborative filtering with temporal dynamics with using singular value decomposition

Abstract

Nowadays, Collaborative Filtering (CF) is a widely used recommendation system. However, traditional CF techniques are harder to make fast and accurate suggestions due to changes in user preferences over time, the emergence of new products and the availability of too many users and too many products in the system. Therefore, it becomes more important to make suggestions that are both fast and take the changes in time into consideration. In the presented study, a new method for providing suggestions customized according to the users' preference and taste as they change over time was developed. By combining the time-dependent changes through the SVD (Singular Value Decomposition), a faster suggestion system was developed. Thus, an attempt was made to enhance product prediction success. In the present study all techniques on Netflix data and the results were compared. The results obtained on the accuracy of the predicted ratings were found out to be promising.