Improving content-based and hybrid music recommendation using deep learning

X Wang, Y Wang�- Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international�…, 2014 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM international conference on Multimedia, 2014dl.acm.org
Existing content-based music recommendation systems typically employ a\textit {two-stage}
approach. They first extract traditional audio content features such as Mel-frequency cepstral
coefficients and then predict user preferences. However, these traditional features, originally
not created for music recommendation, cannot capture all relevant information in the audio
and thus put a cap on recommendation performance. Using a novel model based on deep
belief network and probabilistic graphical model, we unify the two stages into an automated�…
Existing content-based music recommendation systems typically employ a \textit{two-stage} approach. They first extract traditional audio content features such as Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients and then predict user preferences. However, these traditional features, originally not created for music recommendation, cannot capture all relevant information in the audio and thus put a cap on recommendation performance. Using a novel model based on deep belief network and probabilistic graphical model, we unify the two stages into an automated process that simultaneously learns features from audio content and makes personalized recommendations. Compared with existing deep learning based models, our model outperforms them in both the warm-start and cold-start stages without relying on collaborative filtering (CF). We then present an efficient hybrid method to seamlessly integrate the automatically learnt features and CF. Our hybrid method not only significantly improves the performance of CF but also outperforms the traditional feature mbased hybrid method.
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