Creating Synthetic Datasets for Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems using Generative Adversarial Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.01297v1
• Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2023 14:23:27 GMT
• Title: Creating Synthetic Datasets for Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems using Generative Adversarial Networks
• Authors: Jes\'us Bobadilla and Abraham Guti\'errez and Raciel Yera and Luis Mart\'inez
• Abstract summary: Research and education in machine learning needs diverse, representative, and open datasets to handle the necessary training, validation, and testing tasks. To feed this research variety, it is necessary and convenient to reinforce the existing datasets with synthetic ones. This paper proposes a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based method to generate collaborative filtering datasets.
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• Abstract: Research and education in machine learning needs diverse, representative, and open datasets that contain sufficient samples to handle the necessary training, validation, and testing tasks. Currently, the Recommender Systems area includes a large number of subfields in which accuracy and beyond accuracy quality measures are continuously improved. To feed this research variety, it is necessary and convenient to reinforce the existing datasets with synthetic ones. This paper proposes a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN)-based method to generate collaborative filtering datasets in a parameterized way, by selecting their preferred number of users, items, samples, and stochastic variability. This parameterization cannot be made using regular GANs. Our GAN model is fed with dense, short, and continuous embedding representations of items and users, instead of sparse, large, and discrete vectors, to make an accurate and quick learning, compared to the traditional approach based on large and sparse input vectors. The proposed architecture includes a DeepMF model to extract the dense user and item embeddings, as well as a clustering process to convert from the dense GAN generated samples to the discrete and sparse ones, necessary to create each required synthetic dataset. The results of three different source datasets show adequate distributions and expected quality values and evolutions on the generated datasets compared to the source ones. Synthetic datasets and source codes are available to researchers.

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