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Journal : Journal of Applied Data Sciences

Optimization of Recommender Systems for Image-Based Website Themes Using Transfer Learning Wahid, Arif Mu'amar; Hariguna, Taqwa; Karyono, Giat
Journal of Applied Data Sciences Vol 6, No 2: MAY 2025
Publisher : Bright Publisher

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47738/jads.v6i2.671

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Recommender systems play a crucial role in personalizing user experiences in e-commerce, digital media, and web design. However, traditional methods such as Collaborative Filtering and Content-Based Filtering struggle to account for visual preferences, limiting their effectiveness in domains were aesthetics influence decision-making, such as website theme recommendations. These systems face challenges such as data sparsity, cold-start problems, and an inability to capture intricate visual features. To address these limitations, this study integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with advanced recommendation models, including Inception V3, DeepStyle, and Visual Neural Personalized Ranking (VNPR), to enhance the accuracy and personalization of visually-aware recommender systems. A quantitative research approach was employed, using controlled experiments to evaluate different combinations of feature extractors and recommendation models. Data was sourced from ThemeForest, a widely used platform for website themes, and underwent preprocessing to ensure consistency. The models were evaluated using precision, recall, F1 score, Mean Average Precision (MAP), and Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG) to measure recommendation quality. The results indicate that Inception V3 + VNPR outperforms other model combinations, achieving the highest accuracy in personalized theme recommendations. The integration of transfer learning further improved feature extraction and performance, even with limited training data. These findings underscore the importance of combining deep learning-based feature extraction with recommendation models to improve visually-driven recommendations. This study provides a comparative analysis of CNN-based recommender systems and contributes insights for optimizing recommendations in visually complex domains. Despite improvements, challenges such as dataset diversity remain a limitation, affecting generalizability. Future research could explore alternative CNN architectures, such as ResNet and DenseNet, and incorporate user feedback mechanisms to further enhance recommendation accuracy and adaptability.
GAN-Enhanced Radial Basis Function Networks for Improved Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Widiawati, Chyntia Raras Ajeng; Maulita, Ika; Purwati, Yuli; Wahid, Arif Mu'amar
Journal of Applied Data Sciences Vol 7, No 1: January 2026
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47738/jads.v7i1.1035

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Landslide susceptibility modeling is a critical task for disaster mitigation, yet it is frequently undermined by a severe class imbalance inherent in landslide datasets, where non-landslide instances vastly outnumber actual landslide events. This imbalance leads to biased machine learning models with poor predictive power for the minority (landslide) class, resulting in unreliable hazard maps. This study, focusing on the high-risk area of Malang Regency, Indonesia, addresses this challenge by proposing an innovative framework that integrates a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for synthetic data augmentation with a Radial Basis Function Network (RBFN) for classification. A highly imbalanced dataset with a 1:10 ratio of landslide to non-landslide points was constructed to establish a realistic baseline. On this data, the RBFN model, while theoretically powerful for capturing non-linear relationships, failed completely, achieving a Recall of 0.00 for the landslide class. The novelty of this research lies in the specific application of a GAN, trained for 15,000 epochs, to generate high-fidelity synthetic landslide data, thereby creating a perfectly balanced training set. After retraining on this augmented data and undergoing a systematic hyperparameter tuning process, the RBFN’s performance was dramatically transformed. The optimized model achieved an F1-Score of 0.9333 and a Recall of 0.8750, elevating its performance from total failure to a level competitive with the robust Random Forest benchmark. This work validates that the integrated GAN-RBFN approach is a highly effective methodology for overcoming the data imbalance problem in geospatial hazard modeling. By turning a previously unreliable classifier into a powerful predictive tool, this method has significant practical implications for developing more accurate landslide susceptibility maps, which are crucial for informed spatial planning and enhancing early warning systems.