Algorithmes d'apprentissage pour la recommandation
The age of information in which we have entered brings with it a whole new set of challenges to take up in many different fields. Making computers process this profuse information is one such challenge, and this thesis focuses on techniques adapted for automatically filtering and recommending to users items that will fit their tastes, in the somehow original context of an online multi-player game. Our objective is to predict players' ratings of the game's levels. We first introduce machine learning concepts necessary to understand the two architectures we then describe; both of which taking advantage of deep learning and unsupervised pre-training concepts to solve the recommendation problem. The first architecture is a multilayered neural network for which we try to explain different performances we get for different settings of depth, training heuristics and unsupervised pre-training methods, namely, straight, denoising and contrative auto-encoders. The second architecture we explore takes its roots in energy-based models. We give possible explanations for the various results it yields depending on the configurations we experimented with. Finally, we describe two successful improvements on this second architecture. The former is a supervised fine-tuning taking place after the unsupervised pre-training, and the latter is a tentative improvement of the fine-tuning phase by using a multi-tasking training criterion. Our experiments show promising results, especially with the architecture inspired from energy-based models, justifying the use of deep learning algorithms to solve the recommendation problem.
Artificial intelligence Neural networks Video games Energy based models Machine learning Contractive autoencoders Deep learning