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Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 20, 2008
Applicants:

Yunhong Zhou, Cupertino, CA (US);

Robert S. Schreiber, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dennis M. Wilkinson, Los Altos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Yunhong Zhou, Cupertino, CA (US);

Robert S. Schreiber, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Dennis M. Wilkinson, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method of predicting user-item ratings includes providing a first matrix of hidden variables associated with individual items, a second matrix of hidden variables associated with individual users, a third matrix of predicted user-item ratings derived from an inner product of vectors in the first and second matrices, and a fourth matrix of actual user-item ratings. The first and second matrices are alternately fixed and solved with a weighted-λ regularization of at least one of the first and second matrices by minimizing a sum of squared errors between actual user-item ratings in the fourth matrix and corresponding predicted user-item ratings in the third matrix repeatedly until a stopping criterion is satisfied.


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