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Machine learning algorithms build a model of the training data. The term "machine learning" is vaguely defined; it includes what is also called statistical learning, reinforcement learning, unsupervised learning, etc. ALWAYS ADD A MORE SPECIFIC TAG.

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Using advance optimisation techniques for collaborative filtering systems, is it possible?

Absolutely, see my example in - http://sanealytics.com/2015/03/10/matrix-factorization/ You can substitute for your favorite optimization method.
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Recommendation for a book about recommender systems

The books mentioned here are amazing in-depth that catch you up to most recent research in the field. I wrote a chapter in Data Mining Applications with R that gets you up and running to the point of …
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The role of the bias terms in matrix factorization formulas?

Let's say you have a user who hasn't rated any movies. Assuming your $p_i$ is the factor for the user, it would come down to 0. This means that your $p_i * q_i$ will predict no movies for this poor u …
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Updating SVD in Recommender Systems for change in ratings

As someone who practically works with these systems, here is how I do it - Let's say you have your fancy recommender system go ahead and decompose your matrix of users and ratings ($Y$) to users and …
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Assumption behind few latent features in recommender systems?

Three reasons - By projecting to lower dimensional space, we are saying there are some common categories (latent variables) that describe our behavior. Smaller means higher compression, i.e understa …
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