Questions tagged [recommender-system]
A recommendation engine tries to predict how much a user will enjoy certain goods (movies, books, songs, etc) and makes recommendations. They are often used by online vendors to suggest new purchases.
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How to manage the influence of variables for lsa cosine?
I'm building reccomendation system for movies and the following data
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Find correlation between million of users (user-user similarity) in pyhton 3.x [closed]
I have a pandas dataframe as given below, and in which I would like to find the correlation between the customers based on the rating. As per my knowledge, I would have to pivot the dataframe in order ...
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Bayesian matrix factorization
I am working with Bayesian matrix factorization using the MovieLens database.
Data consist of a matrix $n \times d$ of $n=943$ users and $d=1682$ movies where users assign a rate (1-5) to movies.
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Accounting for link order for a navigational recommender system for mobile app
I've been asked to look at a navigational recommender system for a mobile app. Basically, they have a fairly unwieldy navigation section and lots of recurring users. Users typically just use some ...
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How to build a recommendation system for users outside of original model data?
I am creating a collaborative filtering model in Python to recommend possible movies a user may like.
So, using typical methods in this field, I have a sparse matrix nxm with n users and m movies. ...
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What models/algorithms should I research to make a community-driven movie recommendation system?
Pretty new to ML so sorry if this question has been answered before.
Dataset of:
users (100,000 unique)
movies (7000 unique) w/ genre data (action, comedy) and plot summary
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Can a matrix factorization algorithm be guaranteed to converge to a global minimum?
Collaborative filtering is a common technique used by recommender systems. Matrix factorization is a common way to do collaborative filtering.
The problem of matrix factorization for recommender ...
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Matching varying amounts of attributes for an user
Background: We are trying to build a system that ranks created content to match user's needs. We have 5 attributes to match for each user but varying amounts of attributes for each content (1-5). The ...
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Mean Percentage Ranking in implicit feedback ALS
What is Mean Percentage Ranking in implcit feedback recommendation systems. Why should it be less than 50%? There are vague definitions in many forums. But, no clear cut examples. Can someone explain ...
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How to define precision@k in this KDD paper?
I am following this KDD paper trying to learn new things: http://keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/jietang/publications/KDD12-Tang-et-al-Cross-Domain-Collaboration-Recommendation.pdf
In the results section they ...
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User-based vs Clustering-based Collaborative Filtering
Reading about recommender systems in this blog, i found that KNN (k-nearest neighbors) can be used for user-item (user-based) collaborative filtering to find similar users. But in another category of ...
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Ranking based on explicit feedback, user features and item features
Consider the following matrix of scores for user-item pairs:
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Is Matrix Factorization also going to work with one feature?
I need to fill missing values. I have found that there are many approaches such as the mean and the median of the feature as well as using Matrix Factorization. However, I am kind of wondering if I ...
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Recommending without knowing the clusters
I've heard of some methods to produce recommendations based on clustering: if many of the users who enjoy A also enjoy B, and you enjoy A, then you are likely to enjoy B. A and B in this case form a "...
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Is there a method to compare prediction from different models?
I have a problem where I need to classify whether a client is likely to buy or not a service, I have around 10 service and 10.000 times more clients than service, and also rules that do not allow ...
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Normalizing product quantities to use them as implicit ratings in Product Recommendation
I am running a product recommendation using ALS method on retail transaction data. A simple question struck my mind on the using the methodology in case of implicit ratings. In my case I am using the ...
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Why to say neural network can extract implicit feature combinations?
I just couldn't understand why to say neural network layers can extract implicit feature interactions in the DeepFM model.
What does the keyword, implicit feature interactions, exactly mean here?
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How to recommend display advertisements to users based on highest click-trough-rate for multiple banners?
I have several ideas and questions but I'm not sure what is the best approach for this. Any help or feedback would be greatly appreciated!
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For a company I want to build a ...
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Context-aware recommender systems for same sets of users
I understand the basic premise of recommendation systems that recommend let's say, products ($X$) to users ($Y$). However, what if the sets $X$ and $Y$ are the same? For example, let's say users have ...
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Recommender System that gives rating and confidence of rating for implicit data
I am trying to find a model that, given an implicit user-item matrix, will return rating estimates for items for a user and some measure of confidence or uncertainty in the score. I am thinking along ...
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Compare similarity between two different clusters having few similar fields?
I have two datasets, one is mentor dataset another is jobseeker dataset. My ultimate goal is to recommend a jobseeker to mentor based on skills and location (skills jobseeker has but need mentorship ...
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A/B testing and Multi-armed bandit algorithms in a recommender system
I was reading about these two algorithms, but I don't understand how they can be used in a recommender system because using the MovieLens dataset these algorithms recommend the best movie for all the ...
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Association Rule Learning to recommend distinct categories---avoiding similar items
I would like to use association rule mining on my orders dataset, however, I want to avoid recommending two similar items. For example, recommending two loaves of bread with butter. I want to ...
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more then one user based Collaborative filtering
I want to get a movie recommendation by selecting multiple users. Usually, it takes one user ID and gives a recommendation. I thought user-based collaborative filtering with KNN is a good idea. I have ...
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How to get recommended users for an item with a matrix factorization recommender system?
Any tutorial or guide I've seen is for recommending items to a user, but how can I recommend users for an item?
I am currently using the implicit library alternating least squares model.
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recommendation based on multiple user
I am learning about the recommendation system. How can I make a system where it takes multiple users as input and based on the rating and another attribute it gives recommendation? I have data sets ...
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How to interpret recommender scores in implicit matrix factorization?
I am using Alternating Least Squares model from the Implicit library on the LastFM dataset, recommending artists to various users.
The input data is simply a sparse matrix of users, artists, number ...
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Recommendation system
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In the context of collaborative filtering we must find the elements of the svd matrices that minimize the objective function attached. Since the majority of the actual rankings are missing (...
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Row similarity in matrix vs in different factorizations
Suppose an arbitrary $m \times n$ matrix $M$ and the factorizations:
Arbitrary: $M = U_a V_a^T$, where $U_a$ is $m \times k$, $V_a$ is $n \times k$ ($k < m,n$), and $rank(U_a)=rank(V_a)=k$.
SVD: $...
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How to build a recommender system?
I am starting a new feature for our startup product and we're trying to build a recommender system. Here's an overview of our product:
Users are not related to each other (no friends relation ...
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Recommender Engine for documents VS Search engine indexing
I have a lot of books and I want to make recommendations to users based on the description and the title of those books.
I think that one way is to preprocess the content of the title and ...
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Ranking metric that takes into account length of result list?
I would like to evaluate a problem where the user select an option from a list of variable length. The task is to provide a ranked list so that the item lower in rank is the most relevant.
If I use a ...
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How does increasing the rank of latent factor model affect the bias-variance trade off in a recommender system?
I know overfitting means low bias and high variance while under-fitting means high bias and low variance. I want to understand how does increasing the rank of latent factor model affect the bias-...
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Collaborative filtering movie recommender: how to account for missing ratings implying information about user preference?
I'm trying to learn about recommender systems with a fairly standard data set: I have a matrix with thousands of users, thousands of movies, and the ratings that users give to each movie. Obviously, ...
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What is the standard metric used in recommendation systems to evaluate the rankings?
I was searching for a metric to do this for a while and still could not find.
More specifically, my problem is as follows.
I have a ranked golden corpus. For example, consider that it looks as ...
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Item Based Collaborative Filtering vs Association Rules In Data Mining vs Normalised Co-occurrence Similarity Matrix
Requirement: Find out how similar any two products are, in an e-commerce database, to suggest to the users, similar products, when they've added any product to the cart. Much similar to Amazon's ...
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What is the difference between SVD and Collabarative filtering precisely?
Both are sometimes used interchangebly but still there is a difference between them .
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Good way to solve product recommendation
I need to recommend products based on top selling products for a given day in the past. The only independent variable is date which i can derive some information from such as weekday, month etc.
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Cosine similarity for recommendation systems
Recently picked up recommendation systems and was going through User Based Collaborative Filtering(UB-CF).
Somewhere in the text, it specified that cosine similarity is one of the measures to find ...
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Quiz based recommendation system
For my project I would like to make a 'quiz' based recommendation system (for books for example). If a new user comes to the website I want to find out his taste based on some questions, in which I ...
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Concept drift in in user interaction data
concept drift usually refers to the change in the relationship between input and output data over time.
I do have dataset of users' activity in an e-commerce website. Let's say we have a sequence of ...
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Can I use learning to rank to recommend products to customers?
I am working on a project to recommend products to customers. I knew the traditional methods was to use recommendation systems. I wonder if I could use learning to rank to provide the best-ranked ...
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N-dimension one hot features representation
I was trying to understand the features representation in this paper:
DRN: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for News
Recommendation
In 4.2 Feature construction, the news features is
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Training classifier on randomly generated negative samples
I have $M$ (~dozen million) feature vectors. There are $F$ (~several dozen thousand) binary features, but in each vector, only $H$ (~several hundred) of them would be 1, the rest are 0.
Now, for a ...
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Recommendation Engine and Text Analytics
I am looking for a dataset on which I can use Collaborative filtering and Content based filtering along with Text Mining.
Could anybody please suggest , is there any dataset on which I can apply ...
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How to validate Item-Based Collaborative Filtering?
So, I made an books recommender system engine (with R) which based on item-item matrix. I've made the whole system fully works the output will give 5 recommender system. But, the question is how can I ...
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Best Statistical Test for my situation?
For an upcoming project we are trying to create a recommendation algorithm for customers and providers. I will have some number of service providers, probably hundreds to thousands, and some number ...
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Teaching movie recommendation network to avoid duplicates
I'm trying to implement a simple movie recommender using a neural network and collaborative filtering, i.e. given a list of movies the user has watched, what is a good movie recommendation.
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FindSimilar items in a complex dataset
I'm a Machine Learning newbie, but I want to learn more about this interesting topic using a practical example, on which I would appreciate any theoretical and practical help:
I have a database of "...
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Overfitting in recommender systems
So I want to know whether or not my models are overfitting or the difference between train and validation errors are decent.
$L$: is the number of neighbors
The first column is the train error
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