Recommendation systems for online dating have recently attracted much attention from the research community. In this paper we propose a two-side matching framework for online dating recommendations and design an Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model to learn the user preferences from the observed user messaging behavior and user profile features. Experimental results using data from a large online dating website shows that two-sided matching improves the rate of successful matches by as much as 45%. Finally, using simulated matching we show that the LDA model can correctly capture user preferences.
The authors in REF propose a two-side matching framework for online dating recommendations and design a Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model to learn the user preferences from the observed user messaging behavior and user profile features.
Online dating recommendations: matching markets and learning preferences
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