On the Fundamental Limits of Matrix Completion: Leveraging Hierarchical Similarity Graphs

We study a matrix completion problem which leverages a hierarchical structure of social similarity graphs as side information in the context of recommender systems. We assume that users are categorized into clusters, each of which comprises sub-clusters (or what we call "groups"). We consi...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE transactions on information theory Jg. 70; H. 3; S. 2039 - 2075
Hauptverfasser: Ahn, Junhyung, Elmahdy, Adel, Mohajer, Soheil, Suh, Changho
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York IEEE 01.03.2024
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Schlagworte:
Algorithms
Clustering algorithms
Clusters
Collaborative filtering
Complexity
Complexity theory
Filtering
graph side information
Graphs
Information theory
Lower bounds
matrix completion problem
Recommender systems
Similarity
Sparse matrices
ISSN:0018-9448, 1557-9654
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Zusammenfassung:We study a matrix completion problem which leverages a hierarchical structure of social similarity graphs as side information in the context of recommender systems. We assume that users are categorized into clusters, each of which comprises sub-clusters (or what we call "groups"). We consider a hierarchical stochastic block model that well respects practically-relevant social graphs and follows a low-rank rating matrix model. Under this setting, we characterize the information-theoretic limit on the number of observed matrix entries (i.e., optimal sample complexity) as a function of the quality of graph side information (to be detailed) by proving sharp upper and lower bounds on the sample complexity. One important consequence of this result is that leveraging the hierarchical structure of similarity graphs yields a substantial gain in sample complexity relative to the one that simply identifies different groups without resorting to the relational structure across them. Another implication of the result is when the graph information is rich, the optimal sample complexity is proportional to the number of clusters, while it nearly stays constant as the number of groups in a cluster increases. We empirically demonstrate through extensive experiments that the proposed algorithm achieves the optimal sample complexity.
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ISSN:0018-9448
1557-9654
DOI:10.1109/TIT.2023.3345902