A Graph-Incorporated Latent Factor Analysis Model for High-Dimensional and Sparse Data

A High-dimensional and
s
parse (HiDS) matrix is frequently encountered in Big Data-related applications such as e-commerce systems or wireless sensor networks. It is of great significance to perform highly accurate representation learning on an HiDS matrix due to the great desires of extracting latent knowledge from it.
L
atent
f
actor
a
nalysis (LFA), which represents an HiDS matrix by learning the low-rank embeddings based on its observed entries only, is one of the most effective and efficient approaches to this issue. However, most existing LFA-based models directly perform such embeddings on an HiDS matrix without exploiting its hidden graph structures, resulting in accuracy loss. To aid this issue, this paper proposes a
g
raph-incorporated
l
atent
f
actor
a
nalysis (GLFA) model. It adopts two-fold ideas: 1) a graph is constructed for identifying the hidden
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igh-
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rder
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nteraction (HOI) among nodes described by an HiDS matrix, and 2) a recurrent LFA structure is carefully designed with the incorporation of HOI, thereby improving the representation learning ability of a resultant model. Experimental results on three real-world datasets demonstrate that GLFA outperforms six state-of-the-art models in predicting the missing data of an HiDS matrix, which evidently supports its strong representation learning ability to HiDS data.