Evaluating Music Recommender Systems for Groups

Abstract

Recommendation to groups of users is a challenging and currently only passingly studied task. Especially the evaluation aspect often appears ad-hoc and instead of truly evaluating on groups of users, synthesizes groups by merging individual preferences. In this paper, we present a user study, recording the individual and shared preferences of actual groups of participants, resulting in a robust, standardized evaluation benchmark. Using this benchmarking dataset, that we share with the research community, we compare the respective performance of a wide range of music group recommendation techniques proposed in the