TY - GEN

T1 - A predictive model of music preference using pairwise comparisons

A1 - Jensen,Bjørn Sand

A1 - Gallego,Javier Saez

A1 - Larsen,Jan

AU - Jensen,Bjørn Sand

AU - Gallego,Javier Saez

AU - Larsen,Jan

PB - IEEE

PY - 2012

Y1 - 2012

N2 - Music recommendation is an important aspect of many streaming services and multi-media systems, however, it is typically based on so-called collaborative filtering methods. In this paper we consider the recommendation task from a personal viewpoint and examine to which degree music preference can be elicited and predicted using simple and robust queries such as pairwise comparisons. We propose to model - and in turn predict - the pairwise music preference using a very flexible model based on Gaussian Process priors for which we describe the required inference. We further propose a specific covariance function and evaluate the predictive performance on a novel dataset. In a recommendation style setting we obtain a leave-one-out accuracy of 74% compared to 50% with random predictions, showing potential for further refinement and evaluation.

AB - Music recommendation is an important aspect of many streaming services and multi-media systems, however, it is typically based on so-called collaborative filtering methods. In this paper we consider the recommendation task from a personal viewpoint and examine to which degree music preference can be elicited and predicted using simple and robust queries such as pairwise comparisons. We propose to model - and in turn predict - the pairwise music preference using a very flexible model based on Gaussian Process priors for which we describe the required inference. We further propose a specific covariance function and evaluate the predictive performance on a novel dataset. In a recommendation style setting we obtain a leave-one-out accuracy of 74% compared to 50% with random predictions, showing potential for further refinement and evaluation.

KW - Music Preference

KW - Kernel Methods

KW - Gaussian Process Priors

KW - Recommendation

U2 - 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288294

DO - 10.1109/ICASSP.2012.6288294

SN - 978-1-4673-0045-2

BT - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

T2 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

T3 - I E E E International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing. Proceedings

T3 - en_GB

SP - 1977

EP - 1980

ER -