Limitations of collaborative filtering

User-based collaborative filtering systems have been very successful in past, but their widespread use has revealed some real challenges, such as:

  • Sparsity: In practice, many commercial recommender systems are used to evaluate large item sets (for example, Amazon.com recommends books and CDNow.com recommends music albums). In these systems, even active users may have purchased well under 1% of the items 1%). Accordingly, a recommender system based on nearest neighbor algorithms may be unable to make any item recommendations for a particular user. As a result, the accuracy of recommendations may be poor.
  • Scalability: Nearest neighbor algorithms require computation that grows with both the number of users and the number of items. With millions of users and items, a typical web-based recommender system running existing algorithms will suffer serious scalability problems.
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