This is the main paper on factorization machines, which discusses some of the advantages: http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de/pub/pdfs/Rendle2010FM.pdf http://w

This is the main paper on factorization machines, which discusses some of the advantages: http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de/pub/pdfs/Rendle2010FM.pdf http://www.ismll.uni-hildesheim.de/pub/pdfs/Rendle2010FM.pdf In particular they're nice for recommendation algorithms.