Evaluating Music Recommendations with Binary Feedback for Multiple Stakeholders

09/16/2021
by   Sasha Stoikov, et al.
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High quality user feedback data is essential to training and evaluating a successful music recommendation system, particularly one that has to balance the needs of multiple stakeholders. Most existing music datasets suffer from noisy feedback and self-selection biases inherent in the data collected by music platforms. Using the Piki Music dataset of 500k ratings collected over a two-year time period, we evaluate the performance of classic recommendation algorithms on three important stakeholders: consumers, well-known artists and lesser-known artists. We show that a matrix factorization algorithm trained on both likes and dislikes performs significantly better compared to one trained only on likes for all three stakeholders.

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