Consider a typical recommendation problem. A company has historical records of products sold to a large customer base. These records may be compactly represented as a sparse custom...
The vision of an integrated Earth observation system to help protect and sustain the planet and its inhabitants is significant and timely, and thus has been identified recently by...
Acquiring, representing and modeling human skills is one of the key research areas in teleoperation, programming-by-demonstration and human-machine collaborative settings. The pro...
Low-rank matrix approximation methods provide one of the simplest and most effective approaches to collaborative filtering. Such models are usually fitted to data by finding a MAP...
Many existing approaches to collaborative filtering can neither handle very large datasets nor easily deal with users who have very few ratings. In this paper we present the Prob...