#5111. Enhancing long tail item recommendation in collaborative filtering: An econophysics-inspired approach

August 2026publication date
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Management of Technology and Innovation;
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Abstract:
Recommender systems have been immensely successful in overcoming information overload problem through personalized suggestions to consumers. Traditional recommendation algorithms tend to recommend more popular items. A significant number of items in an enterprise are non-popular (long tail items) due to lack of visibility in recommendations. These long tail items are left unsold and result in a significant loss to the business. The consumers on the other end are deprived of receiving relevant item recommendations. In this paper, we propose two approaches inspired from econophysics to recommend long tail items. The proposed approaches selectively inject ratings to the long tail items to diminish the bias towards the popular items by utilizing the existing rating information. Subsequently, the injected rating datasets are used to provide recommendations. The results on real-world datasets show that the proposed approaches outperform the existing techniques in mitigating long tail effect.
Keywords:
Collaborative filtering; Econophysics; Long tail items; Power-law distribution; Rating injection

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