ALQ: An Efficient Active Learning Recommendation Algorithm

With the rapid development of the Internet, the problem of information overload is becoming more and more serious, which makes it difficult for users to choose the content they are interested in from a large number of information. With the emergence of recommendation systems, the historical interaction information between users and information and items is used to provide users with topics of interest, which not only alleviates the problem of information overload, but also brings great satisfaction to users. However, training a model that can make accurate recommendations is not an easy task. In addition to an appropriate training strategy, it also requires a large amount of data support. Getting data, especially labeled data, takes a lot of time and money. Therefore, this paper proposes a new active learning algorithm. Firstly, the recommendation problem was transformed into a PU learning problem, and then the method was introduced in the positive sample learning process to achieve the purpose of increasing positive sample data, thereby reducing the cost of data labeling. Through experiments, the proposed method reduces the cost of data labeling in the recommendation task and further verifies the rationality of transforming the recommendation problem into a PU learning problem.