Recommendation of newly published research papers using belief propagation

Abstract

The problem to retrieve most relevant research papers for a given academic is studied. Existing solutions cannot adequately address the recommendation of new papers due to their lack of history information, the so-called cold start problem. Using the graphical model built from citation information between a new paper pi and published papers, toward this challenge, we propose a novel approach based on a probabilistic inference algorithm, the Belief Propagation (BP), to predict the likelihood of pi's relevance to a target academic. Compared to item-based collaborative filtering method using a DBLP data set, the empirical validation shows an improvement in accuracy up to 26% in F1 score.