In this paper, we present an improved collaborative filtering (ICF) algorithm by using the heat diffusion process to generate the user correlation. This algorithm has remarkably higher accuracy than the standard collaborative filtering (CF) using Pearson correlation. Furthermore, we introduce a free parameter β to regulate the contributions of objects to user correlation. The numerical simulation results indicate that decreasing the influence of popular objects can further improve the algorithmic accuracy and diversity.
['Qiang Guo', 'Jianguo Liu', 'Binghong Wang']
Improved collaborative filtering algorithm based on heat conduction