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  • Information Science

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  • Recommender systems are crucial for navigating online information overload.
  • Existing research primarily focuses on algorithm improvement, neglecting user contributions.
  • Understanding user impact is key to optimizing recommendation efficiency.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and characterize 'core users' who disproportionately influence recommender system performance.
  • To develop a method for extracting these core users to improve recommendation efficiency.
  • To analyze the characteristics of core users beyond simple activity metrics.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a novel core user extraction method.
  • Evaluated the method's effectiveness in achieving high recommendation accuracy with a reduced user subset.
  • Conducted detailed investigations into the attributes and behaviors of identified core users.

Main Results:

  • The core user extraction method achieved 90% of top-L recommendation accuracy using only 20% of users.
  • Core users were found not necessarily to be the most active (high-degree) users.
  • Core users demonstrated a tendency to select high-quality and diversified items.

Conclusions:

  • A distinct group of core users significantly contributes to recommender system accuracy.
  • Targeting core users offers a highly efficient strategy for improving recommendation quality.
  • Core user identification provides insights into user behavior beyond simple interaction frequency.