The reinforcing influence of recommendations on global diversification

Details The reinforcing influence of recommendations on global diversification The reinforcing influence of recommendations on global diversification

2011-06-01

arxiv.org/abs/1106.0330v1

Europhysics Letter 97, 18005 (2012)

Physics

Physics and Society

6 pages, 6 figures

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Recommender systems are promising ways to filter the overabundant information in modern society. Their algorithms help individuals to explore decent items, but it is unclear how they allocate popularity among items. In this paper, we simulate successive recommendations and measure their influence on the dispersion of item popularity by Gini coefficient. Our result indicates that local diffusion and collaborative filtering reinforce the popularity of hot items, widening the popularity dispersion. On the other hand, the heat conduction algorithm increases the popularity of the niche items and generates smaller dispersion of item popularity. Simulations are compared to mean-field predictions. Our results suggest that recommender systems have reinforcing influence on global diversification.

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