Matrix Factorization-based algorithms are among the state-of-the-art in Collaborative Filtering methods. In many of these models, a least squares loss functional is implicitly or explicitly minimized and thus the resulting estimates correspond to the conditional mean of the potential rating a user might give to an item. However they do not provide any information on the uncertainty and the confidence of the Recommendation. We introduce a novel Matrix Factorization algorithm that estimates the conditional quantiles of the ratings. Experimental results demonstrate that the introduced model performs well and can potentially be a very useful tool in Recommender Engines by providing a direct measure of the quality of the prediction. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Karatzoglou, A., & Weimer, M. (2010). Quantile matrix factorization for collaborative filtering. In Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (Vol. 61 LNBIP, pp. 253–264). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15208-5_23
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