Embarrassingly Shallow Autoencoders for Sparse Data
arXiv:1905.03375 · doi:10.1145/3308558.3313710
Abstract
Combining simple elements from the literature, we define a linear model that is geared toward sparse data, in particular implicit feedback data for recommender systems. We show that its training objective has a closed-form solution, and discuss the resulting conceptual insights. Surprisingly, this simple model achieves better ranking accuracy than various state-of-the-art collaborative-filtering approaches, including deep non-linear models, on most of the publicly available data-sets used in our experiments.
In the proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW) 2019 (7 pages)