Self Hyper-parameter Tuning for Stream Recommendation Algorithms

Veloso, Bruno; Gama, João; Malheiro, Benedita; Vinagre, João

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E-commerce platforms explore the interaction between users and digital content – user generated streams of events – to build and maintain dynamic user preference models which are used to make meaningful recommendations. However, the accuracy of these incremental models is critically affected by the choice of hyper-parameters. So far, the incremental recommendation algorithms used to process data streams rely on human expertise for hyper-parameter tuning. In this work we apply our Self Hyper-Parameter Tuning (SPT) algorithm to incremental recommendation algorithms. SPT adapts the Melder-Mead optimisation algorithm to perform hyper-parameter tuning. First, it creates three models with random hyper-parameter values and, then, at dynamic size intervals, assesses and applies the Melder-Mead operators to update their hyper-parameters until the models converge. The main contribution of this work is the adaptation of the SPT method to incremental matrix factorisation recommendation algorithms. The proposed method was evaluated with well-known recommendation data sets. The results show that SPT systematically improves data stream recommendations.