Hybrid music recommender using content-based and social information

Internet resources available today, including songs, albums, playlists or podcasts, that a user cannot discover if there is not a tool to filter the items that the user might consider relevant. Several recommendation techniques have been developed since the Internet explosion to achieve this filtering task. In an attempt to recommend relevant songs to users, we propose an hybrid recommender that considers real-world users information and high-level representation for audio data. We use a deep learning technique, convolutional deep neural networks, to represent an audio segment in a n-dimensional vector, whose dimensions define the probability of the segment to belong to a specific music genre. To capture the listening behavior of a user, we investigate a state-of-the-art technique, estimation of distribution algorithms. The designed hybrid music recommender outperforms the predictions compared with a traditional content-based recommender.

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