Hybrid Multi-Criteria Preference Ranking by Subsorting

Abstract

Multi-criteria recommender systems can improve the quality of recommendations by considering user preferences on multiple criteria. One promising approach proposed recently is multi-criteria ranking, which uses Pareto ranking to assign a ranking score based on the dominance relationship between predicted ratings across criteria. However, applying Pareto ranking to all criteria may result in non-differentiable ranking scores. To alleviate this issue, we proposed a hybrid multi-criteria ranking method by using subsorting. More specifically, we utilize one ranking method as the major sorting approach, while we apply another preference ordering method as subsorting. Our experimental results on the OpenTable and Yahoo!Movies data present the advantages of this hybrid ranking approach. In addition, the experiments also reveal more insights about the sustainability of the multi-criteria ranking for top-N item recommendations.