Reproducibility is a challenging aspect that considerably affects the quality of most scientific papers. To deal with this, many open frameworks allow to build, test, and benchmark recommender systems for single users. Group recommender systems involve additional tasks w.r.t. those for single users, such as the identification of the groups, or their modeling. While this clearly amplifies the possible reproducibility issues, to date, no framework to benchmark group recommender systems exists. In this work, we enable reproducibility in group recommender systems by extending the LibRec library, which stands out as one of the richest, with more than 70 different recommender algorithms, good performance and several evaluation metrics. Specifically, we include several approaches for all the stages of group recommender systems: group formation, group modeling strategies, and evaluation. To validate our framework, we consider a use-case that compares several group building, recommendation, and group modeling approaches.

Enabling Reproducibility in Group Recommender Systems

Boratto L.
2022-01-01

Abstract

Reproducibility is a challenging aspect that considerably affects the quality of most scientific papers. To deal with this, many open frameworks allow to build, test, and benchmark recommender systems for single users. Group recommender systems involve additional tasks w.r.t. those for single users, such as the identification of the groups, or their modeling. While this clearly amplifies the possible reproducibility issues, to date, no framework to benchmark group recommender systems exists. In this work, we enable reproducibility in group recommender systems by extending the LibRec library, which stands out as one of the richest, with more than 70 different recommender algorithms, good performance and several evaluation metrics. Specifically, we include several approaches for all the stages of group recommender systems: group formation, group modeling strategies, and evaluation. To validate our framework, we consider a use-case that compares several group building, recommendation, and group modeling approaches.
2022
9781643683263
9781643683270
Algorithms; Group Recommender Systems; Reproducibility
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