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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Matrix Factorization for Recommendation System vs just calculating Conditional Probabilities
I have a matrix factorization model (using Lightfm, without user-features) to recommend items to users, based on a user-item matrix.
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A particular recommendation stuck out to me as curious, ...
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Matrix Factorization and Overfitting
I recently came accross the algorithm of Matrix Factorization for a recommendations system.
One of the tutorials I followed can be found here.
According to it given the initial matrix $R$ and the ...
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How to calculate Cosine Similarity from Keras model?
I'm trying to make hybrid recommender system that recommends movies to users from Movielens dataset.
Its Content part is based on Doc2Vec model from gensim library and its Collaborative Filtering part ...
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How to choose the best recommender system? What evaluation metrics to use?
I want to build a recommender system to suggest similar songs to continue a playlist (similar to what Spotify does by recommending similar songs at the end of a playlist).
I want to build two models: ...
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Recommend items to complete a set
I'm trying to predict/recommend items to add to an incomplete basket. In this case, the basket is a project — e.g., you detect a customer trying to fix the AC in their car, hence you suggest things ...
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Recommender system with regression output
So basically I have a some products (basket A, which may differ from store to store) which are sold and some other products tend to be sold according to what happens in basket A.
I Need to forecast ...
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weighted average in collaborative filtering
I studied on collaborative filtering recently and found that for ratings at last most methods applied were weighted average, no matter what they had proposed, similarity, time, etc.
Thus I am ...
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How would we set the initial parameters of beta distribution of Thompson sampling if we want to start the model with the existing data?
This was one of the business-related questions from my technical interview last week for a data science position in a recommender system team at a search engine company focusing on advertisement ...
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What is the general right call to make from a marginal difference in A/B test results in recommender system?
This was one of the business-related questions from my technical interview last week for a data science position in a recommender system team at a search engine company focusing on advertisement ...
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Statistical test for recommendation algorithms
I've developed 2 different image based recommendation systems for an e-commerce company and now it's time to evaluate them using some statistical tests. Both algorithms work in a way in which if fed ...
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Sample size calculation for precision at $k$: a/b-testing a recommender system
I would like to conduct an online experiment to compare two different versions of a recommender system. The system returns a list of $r$ ranked recommendations. I would like to evaluate the ...
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Why is performing a collaborative filtering or PCA not clustering?
Today I had a very brief discussion with someone who claimed that performing collaborative filtering (CF) is a way of performing clustering. The reasoning that was given for CF to be clustering, was ...
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Funk SVD for binary data - product like or dislike
Assume the following situation:
you have a user-item sparse matrix. However, instead of the usual 1 to 5 rating scale, items can only receive a positive (1) or negative (-1) feedback.
Thus, the matrix ...
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Content-based filtering recommendation system for a group
Is there any example of content-based filtering recommendation for a group of observations? For example, user can choose a group of 10 movies they like the most, and the recommendation engine will ...
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Can I restrict action space based on state in DDPG?
I am working on a RL based recommender system using the DDPG algorithm and wanted to restrict the action space (possible recommedations) based in the user. I have tried using the restricted action ...
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Sequential recommendation: how to effective encoding output item?
Now I am learning about sequential recommendation - session based recommendation. I have understood that User-item interactions may be viewed as sequential action (first I clicked item A, then click ...
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Is there one splitting strategy for both K-NN and Matrix Factorization recommender systems?
I am researching several different recommender systems, some of which are based on a user K-Nearest Neighbour algorithm and some of which are based on a matrix factorization algorithm. My dataset is ...
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What's the difference between a recommender system and a decision tree?
We learned in Machine Learning that both of those techniques try to predict an output (whether person A likes a specific product or whether person A has a high default risk) based on data of other ...
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efficient way to create negative samples in recommender system
I am trying to build a binary classification model that predicts whether user will buy a product when recommended with card transaction dataset. Therefore data are only stored when transaction ...
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How many variables for a recommender system?
I'm creating a survey for 60 people. I'd like to measure their music, tv-series and purchasing tastes.
The survey will show a number of songs. People will be asked to say if they like it (1) or not (0)...
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Next best offer models in recommendation system
I'm trying to so some research on "Next Best Offer" or "Next Best Action" models used in recommendation systems. Searched on google but didn't find any article with detailed ...
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What is the linearity assumption used in the paper - Off-policy evaluation for slate recommendation
I am reading the paper, Off-policy evaluation for slate recommendation. I am quite confused by their statement, "Specifically, we posit a linearity assumption, stating that the
slate-level reward ...
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Search, rank and recommend in large text datasets
Imagine you are Spotify and you have billions of songs. Assume that each of these songs are transcribed into text. How do you design your search and recommendation pipeline such that when somebody ...
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Evaluating recommender system implicit vs explicit
I have rating data that allows me to create a recommender system based on these explicit rankings. Moreover, I want to test some methods that utilize implicit feedback. I can obtain it by binarizing ...
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Values overshooting for sparse matrix factorization (recommendation system)
Using this article as reference for ease of replicability, I noticed that when expanding the pivot matrix R with many missing values, the final recommendation matrix tends to have values overshooting ...
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Constructing a User Profile for Music Taste
My goal is to construct User profiles based on positive (and maybe also negative) interactions with songs. A User has the option to like a song. This would give me a list of likes for each user. With ...
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Why does the RMSE stay the same regardless of the algorithm that I use?
I have a dataframe with users, items, and ratings that are either 0 or 1. There are more items than users, some users might rate lots of common items, and some not any common items at all. Here is a ...
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Using Classification using User Profile for Product Recommendation
I want to build a ML model which will recommend products to users (Currently I have 3 products to recommend A,B and C)
So I have some user profile data, like address, gender, age, and few other ...
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Measuring similarity between students to build an exam recommender system
I am playing around with the following problem:
I have various groups of students from various schools and they receive online questions. A group receives the same questions, but different groups in ...
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Correct metrics for recommender system models based on explicit and implicit data respectively
For modeling explicit ratings, regression metrics like RMSE, MSE and MAE should be used for evaluation. For modeling implicit ratings, ranking metrics like precision, recall, MAP@K should be used for ...
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What are the pros and cons of using a supervised learning approach for building a recommender system compared to traditional approaches?
Pretty much all articles I read about recommender systems use Collaborative Filtering, Content Based Filtering and Hybrid approaches. Virtually no one mentioned about supervised learning approaches. ...
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The role of bias terms in binary recommender systems
I realize that a recommender system applied to, for example, the Movielens dataset needs to account for bias. That is, one needs to adjust for the varying popularity of movies, and that users have ...
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Should the intercept be omitted when fitting a pairwise Learn to Rank Model?
In a typical Learning to Rank setting for a recommender system, suppose we have a number of feature scores $\mathbf{x} = x_1, ..., x_n$ for each document, for a given query. The pairwise paradigm (e.g....
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Why does Non-Negative Matrix Factorization reconstructs exactly the same matrix?
I'm trying recently to get into recommender systems and almost all tutorials I find mention collaborative filtering done with matrix factorization. I found this tutorial that describes how to build ...
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Predicting user ratings based on ratings and demographic data on the fly
would like to predict the rating (0-5 stars) a user would give to an item. My data looks like this:
for every user I have the age-group, gender-group, and two other factors right after the user ...
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Latent factors are the same in both decomposed matrices?
This question is in the context of recommendation systems. We can use matrix factorization techniques to decompose a user-product explicit/implicit matrix(R) into two matrices(U, P). Let's say R is a ...
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Recommender System without collaborative or content filtering
Lets say I have a library of items. I want to show some of these items to the users and I want to show what I think would be the best items to the user. I don't have access to the preference of the ...
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Best model for dataset with grouped data
I'm working on a recommender system for our website. Users visit the website and choose content to consume. Users tend to consume the same content at the same hour of the day and on the same day of ...
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Recommender System without Ratings but Duration instead
I'm currently working on a recommender system without ratings variable. I only have the watch duration for streamers and I should be able to recommend a list of streamers with importance on its order. ...
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How does Neural Collaborative filtering (NCF) handle new users (cold start)?
I am building model with NCF and i know NCF has great power to handle sparse data, and find great representation for users and items. However, I don't know how would NCF handle new users? my structure ...
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Sort items based on frequency and recency [duplicate]
I'm working on a problem which requires me to sort a list of static items for each user. I understand best way to solve this problem would be to come up with a function that captures both the ...
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Function to sort a static list of items by recency and frequency
I'm working on a problem which requires me to sort a list of static items for each user. I understand best way to solve this problem would be to come up with a function that captures both the ...
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Best way to pre-process this data for a recommender?
I've created this data set, time series, with timestamps, and 3 columns, user_id, events, and next_hotel. I want to use next_hotel as a response variable.
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Recommender system for matching user input keywords to objects that have different keywords assigned to them (and getting the matching weights) [closed]
I'm looking for some tips in the right direction as to what to look into for this recommender system:
We have a predefined set of objects, each with a few keywords assigned to them. We can call the ...
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why do we calculating dot product between a matrix and its transpose to capture interaction of data?
I am wondering why in this work https://github.com/facebookresearch/dlrm, authors are calculating dot product of embeddings by its transpose. Here is the sentence from their paper, the last paragraph ...
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Listwise Learning to rank for partially labelled list of ranking data
I was reading about the Listwise approach for LTR.
The first Listwise LTR paper ( refer page 3, left column, para 2-3) explicitly mentions "n(i)" which implies the number of ranked Documents ...
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Evaluate recommender system based on profit margin generated?
Let's say that I have two recommendation system models built, Model A and Model B.
Now I track the performance of both the models for 5 days from 1st Jan to 5th Jan.
Each model has been assigned a ...
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Cosine similarity with recentering - collaborative filtering
I don’t know much about stats (nor maths), so I’m sorry if I’m not being very clear on this...
I’m trying to build a simple recommender system for books using collaborative filtering item by item.
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Product cannibalization - Would affinity analysis help?
We send an email to our customers to advertise 3-4 products every day.
Supposing that today's email is advertising three products (product A, product B, product C), the customer is given four options:
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