Estimation of Interest Levels From Behavior Features via Tensor Completion Including Adaptive Similar User Selection

A method for estimating interest levels from behavior features via tensor completion including adaptive similar user selection is presented in this paper. The proposed method focuses on a tensor that is suitable for data containing multiple contexts and constructs a third-order tensor in which three modes are “products”, “users” and “user behaviors and interest levels” for these products. By complementing this tensor, unknown interest level estimation of a product for a target user becomes feasible. For further improving the estimation performance, the proposed method adaptively selects similar users for the target user by focusing on converged estimation errors between estimated interest levels and known interest levels in the tensor completion. Furthermore, the proposed method can adaptively estimate the unknown interest from the similar users. This is the main contribution of this paper. Therefore, the influence of users having different interests is reduced, and accurate interest level estimation can be realized. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, we show experimental results obtained by estimating interest levels of users holding books.