Understand your Users, An Ensemble Learning Framework for Natural Noise Filtering in Recommender Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18560v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 02:36:27 GMT
• Title: Understand your Users, An Ensemble Learning Framework for Natural Noise Filtering in Recommender Systems
• Authors: Clarita Hawat, Wissam Al Jurdi, Jacques Bou Abdo, Jacques Demerjian, Abdallah Makhoul,
• Abstract summary: This paper addresses the challenge of defining noise, which is inherently related to variability in human preferences and behaviors.<n>In classifying changes in user tendencies, we distinguish three kinds of phenomena: external factors that directly influence users' sentiment, serendipity causing unexpected preference, and incidental interaction perceived as noise.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The exponential growth of web content is a major key to the success for Recommender Systems. This paper addresses the challenge of defining noise, which is inherently related to variability in human preferences and behaviors. In classifying changes in user tendencies, we distinguish three kinds of phenomena: external factors that directly influence users' sentiment, serendipity causing unexpected preference, and incidental interaction perceived as noise. To overcome these problems, we present a new framework that identifies noisy ratings. In this context, the proposed framework is modular, consisting of three layers: known natural noise algorithms for item classification, an Ensemble learning model for refined evaluation of the items and signature-based noise identification. We further advocate the metrics that quantitatively assess serendipity and group validation, offering higher robustness in recommendation accuracy. Our approach aims to provide a cleaner training dataset that would inherently improve user satisfaction and engagement with Recommender Systems.

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