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107 Citations : IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
we introduce and explore a number of item ranking techniques that can generate substantially more diverse recommendations across all users while maintaining comparable levels of recommendation accuracy. Comprehensive empirical evaluation consistently shows the diversity gains of the proposed techniques using several real-world rating data sets and different rating prediction algorithms
Traditionally, the problem is addressed through attribute-based diversification grouping items in the result set that share many common attributes (e.g., genre for movies) and selecting only a limited number of items from each group. It is, however,