A novel collaborative filtering algorithm by bit mining frequent itemsets

Collaborative filtering (CF) is a popular technique in recommendation study. Concretely, items which are recommended to user are determined by surveying her/his communities. There are two main CF approaches, which are memory-based and model-based. I propose a new CF model-based algorithm by mining frequent itemsets from rating database. Hence items which belong to frequent itemsets are recommended to user. My CF algorithm gives immediate response because the mining task is performed at offline process-mode. I also propose another so-called Roller algorithm for improving the process of mining frequent itemsets. Roller algorithm is implemented by heuristic assumption “The larger the support of an item is, the higher it’s likely that this item will occur in some frequent itemset”. It models upon doing white-wash task, which rolls a roller on a wall in such a way that is capable of picking frequent itemsets. Moreover I provide enhanced techniques such as bit representation, bit matching and bit mining in order to speed up recommendation process. These techniques take advantages of bitwise operations (AND, NOT) so as to reduce storage space and make algorithms run faster.