Remembering past and predicting future: a hybrid recurrent neural network based recommender system.

Traditional recommender systems (RS) assume users' taste to be static (taste remains same over time) and reactive (a change in taste cannot be predicted and is observed only after it occurs). Further, traditional RS restricts the recommendation process to candidate items generation. This work aims to explore two phases of RS, i.e., Candidate Generation as well as Candidate Ranking. We propose a RS from a multi-objective (short-term prediction, long-term prediction, diversity, and popularity bias) perspective which was previously overlooked. The sequential and non-sequential behavior of users is exploited to predict future behavioral trajectories with the consideration of short-term and long-term prediction using recurrent neural networks and nearest neighbors approach. Further, a novel candidate ranking method is introduced to prevent users from being entangled in recommended items. On multiple datasets, largest being MovieLens (ML) 1M, our model shows excellent results achieving a hit rate and short-term prediction success of 58% and 71% respectively on ML 1M. Further, it implicitly handles two important parameters, i.e., diversity and item popularity with a success rate of 59.22% and 34.28% respectively.

Data on Vulnerability Detection in Android.

The data in this article have been collaborated from mainly four sources- Google Playstore, Wandoujia (third party app store market), AMD and Androzoo. These data include ~85,000 APKs (Android Package Kit), both malicious and benign from these data sources. Static and dynamic features are extracted from these APK files, and then supervised machines learning algorithms are employed for malware detection in Android. This data article also provides the Python code for data analysis. For feature extraction, a generic algorithm has also been incorporated, thereby, selecting important and relevant feature subset. Conclusive results obtained from this data set are further comprehended and interpreted in our latest research study "A Novel Parallel Classifier Scheme for Vulnerability Detection in Android" (Garg et al., 2018). This proved to be precious contribution for ensembling classifiers in machine learning to detect malware in Android.