A music recommendation algorithm based on clustering and latent factor model

Software College, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China

^* Corresponding author: hancy0223@126.com

Abstract

The collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm is a technique for predicting items that a user may be interested in based on user history preferences. In the recommendation process of music data, it is often difficult to score music and the display score data for music is less, resulting in data sparseness. Meanwhile, implicit feedback data is more widely distributed than display score data, and relatively easy to collect, but implicit feedback data training efficiency is relatively low, usually lacking negative feedback. In order to effectively solve the above problems, we propose a music recommendation algorithm combining clustering and latent factor models. First, the user-music play record data is processed to generate a user-music matrix. The data is then analyzed using a latent factor probability model on the resulting matrix to obtain a user preference matrix U and a musical feature matrix V. On this basis, we use two K- means algorithms to perform user clustering and music clustering on two matrices. Finally, for the user preference matrix and the commodity feature matrix that complete the clustering, a user-based collaborative filtering algorithm is used for prediction. The experimental results show that the algorithm can reduce the running cost of large-scale data and improve the recommendation effect.