{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/mixture-of-tastes-models-for-representing","title":"Mixture-of-tastes Models for Representing Users with Diverse Interests","arxiv_id":"1711.08379","date":"2018-01-29","proceeding":null,"authors":["Kula Maciej"],"abstract":"Most existing recommendation approaches implicitly treat user tastes as\nunimodal, resulting in an average-of-tastes representations when multiple\ndistinct interests are present. We show that appropriately modelling the\nmulti-faceted nature of user tastes through a mixture-of-tastes model leads to\nlarge increases in recommendation quality. Our result holds both for deep\nsequence-based and traditional factorization models, and is robust to careful\nselection and tuning of baseline models. In sequence-based models, this\nimprovement is achieved at a very modest cost in model complexity, making\nmixture-of-tastes models a straightforward improvement on existing baselines.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08379v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.08379v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"mixture-of-tastes-models-for-representing","repo_url":"https://github.com/maciejkula/mixture","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/1711.08379","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1711.08379","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}