Trust-Based Recommendation: An Empirical Analysis

The use of trust in recommender systems has been shown to im- prove the accuracy of rating predictions, especially in the case where a user’s rating significantly differs from the average. Different techniques have been used to incorporate trust into recommender systems, each showing encouraging results. However, the lack of trust information available in public datasets has limited the empir- ical analysis of these techniques and trust-based recommendation in general, with most analysis limited a single dataset. In this paper, we provide a more complete empirical analysis of trust-based recommendation. By making use of a method that infers trust between users in a social graph, we are able to apply trust-based recommendation techniques to three separate datasets. From this, we measure the overall accuracy of each technique in terms of the Mean Absolute Error (MAE), the Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) as well as measuring the prediction coverage of each technique. We thus provide a comparison and analysis of each tech- nique on all three datasets.

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