Enhancing VAEs for Collaborative Filtering: Flexible Priors & Gating Mechanisms

1 code implementation • 3 Nov 2019 • Daeryong Kim, Bongwon Suh

Our work is the first to apply flexible priors to collaborative filtering and show that simple priors (in original VAEs) may be too restrictive to fully model user preferences and setting a more flexible prior gives significant gains.

Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Systems