Questions tagged [recommender-system]
Everything related to recommender systems
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Multidimensional collaborative filtering model
I have a dataset that is approximately structured in the following way:
500 users, 500 products, 100 countries, 2 seasons, 300000 ratings. Meaning that I have 300,000 rows containing unique ...
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What public datasets exist for content-based recommendation? (e.g. News Recommendation)
I'm an AI Master student working on my Thesis. My research focuses on content-based User Modelling in Recommendation. More specifically, I'm aiming at improving methods of User Modelling to cover more ...
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Operations on Recommendation Embeddings
I've trained a recommendation system to recommend steam games based on game tags. An example output is shown below, where GAME is the game recommended based on the <...
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How to use ndcg metric for binary relevance
I am working on a ranking problem to predict the right single document based on the user query and use the NDCG metric to measure the model.
Given the details :
Queries ( Q ), Result Document ( D ),...
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Calculate Similarity using User's Personal Data?
I want to find out which users are similar to each other using their personal/organisational data, such as department, company, site, etc.
I have this data in a boolean format, as shown below:
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How to calculate precision at K and NDCG for ranking algorithms
I am ranking a filtered item list as per user's metadata and historical behaviour.
Now how to calculate metrices like precision at K?
One approach could be -
Divide historical data in training and ...
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How to evaluate a content recommendation model unsupervised (unlabeled dataset)?
I have a lot of unlabeled data which is crawled from job listings and I'm trying to build a content based recommendation model.
I just need if someone could help me out on how to evaluate such model. ...
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clustering changing Label
I have dataset with clustering label (this label is the group of each point) and I want to create such recommendation system or any other model to help the point for changing his group (for example ...
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CV(Curriculum vitae) Recommendation System guidance
I am building a recommender system which matches people's CV with a vacancy.
So far, I used TF-IDF & Cosine Similarity to get a matching score between a vacancy and a candidate's CV.
I want to ...
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Which Factorization Machine (FMs) method works on train , test and validation data format?
I am working on a project where my data have train, test and validation format. I want to use the Factorization Method for binary classification.
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Calculating Rank Ordering Error Metric for implicit recommendation
I'm reading Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets. On page 6 they detail their evaluation strategy, which they define as mean Expected Percentile Ranking with the following formula:
$...
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Can a recommendation system be used as a binary classifier?
I have a computer-generated music project, and I'd like to classify short passages of music as "good" or "bad" via machine learning.
I won't have a large training set. I'll start by generating 500 ...
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Evaluating the performance of a machine learned recommendation system
I have a set of resumes $R=\{{r_1,...,r_n\}}$, which I've transformed to a vector space using TF-IDF. Each resume has a label, which is the name of their current employer. Each of these labels comes ...
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Examples of the use of xgboost for recommender systems?
Are there any state-of-the-art implementations of xgboost in recommender systems? I'm looking for GitHub implementations but also papers that discuss this.
I've only found this paper https://...
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Using Amazon Personalize to build a Recommendation System
I would like to build a recommendation system based only in the items metadata.
I have an input vector with some desirable topics that the user want to read about, for example: (self-help, yoga, ...
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how to use user KPI score data for making recommendations based on improving the performance
I have a dataset with these data points:
user_id
login_points
meeting_complete points
meeting_missed_points
call_points
lead_created_points
and some features which tells the user activity and ...
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Time series modeling with unknown sampling times
My problem is building a recommendation engine, where actions should lead to desired range of states.
A state is measured by a sensor - one continuous feature.
An action is measured by a different ...
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How to calculate NDCG in recommendation system
This is a question about NDCG, which is a recommendation evaluation metric.
The following are being used as evaluation indicators for recommendations.
$$DCG = r_1 + \sum\limits_{i=2}^{N}\frac{r_i}{...
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How to encode an array of categories to feed into sklearn
I'm working on a recommendation problem, broadly following the Youtube paper on theirs. Their surrogate problem is to recommend the next video a user will watch. One feature they include in their ...
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Value error in an embedding layer
I am new to deep learning and I am trying to build a book recommender system using embedding layers. I use one layer for the book and one for the user.
I am having trouble with fitting the model. ...
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exercise 9.3.2 from mmds book
I am reading this book http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/mmds/ch9.pdf
there is an exercise 9.3.2 a) it says
Exercise 9.3.2 : In this exercise, we cluster items in the matrix of
Fig. 9.8. Do the ...
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How to draw neural network diagrams with this particular style?
I would like to draw a neural network architecture with the follow style. Do you know which tool can be used to do this? The paper is Operation-aware Neural Networks for User Response Prediction.
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nDCG - choose relevance scores
I am evaluating a recommender system using nDCG.
The recommender system predicts similar movies for a given movie. I want to evaluate predicted similarity rankings by comparing them to a ground truth ...
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Understanding reduced dimension embedding from tabular data
Background
I am working on building a collaborative filtering recommender system in Keras for a school project, following an approach from this article. The approach is to
take tabular user, item ...
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TS-SS and Cosine similarity among text documents using TF-IDF in Python
A common way of calculating the cosine similarity between text based documents is to calculate tf-idf and then calculating the linear kernel of the tf-idf matrix.
TF-IDF matrix is calculated using ...
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On the offline evalution of recommender system
There are mainly three ways to evaluate a recommender system: offline, online and user study.
For most academic papers, offline evaluation is used to show the improvements:
They split the offline ...
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play session from ratings dataset in Movie20 M
I need to extract listening sessions from the ratings dataset which has the columns
cols = [userId movieId rating timestamp]
timestamp is just a number for eg 1112486027 listening sessions are ...
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Recommender system heavily biased towards popular items
I am training a pure collaborative filtering recommender system on MovieLens 1M using Tensorflow-Ranking. I use embeddings to represent users and items and feed concatenated embeddings through two ...
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How to validate collaborative filtering recommender system in r?
I have a project which I have to make a recommender system of BX Books dataset. I use cosine similarity as my algorithm. I came up with this script of R:
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Understanding the softmax output in Youtube's recommender
This question has been asked before, but never (that I can see) satisfactorily answered.
I'm reading Youtube's paper on their recommender system. The system has two elements, the first of which is a ...
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Transfer Learning and Recommender Systems
I have a task in which I am pretending to have an "unobserved" system, let's call it the target system, that I am using an LSTM from a similar system that has observations to perform the regression. I ...
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Testing Setup in Temporal Tensor Factorization for Recommendation
I am trying to wrap my head around Temporal Tensor Factorization for Collaborative Filtering, as described in the paper: Temporal Collaborative Filtering with Bayesian Probabilistic Tensor
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Understanding the “Wide” part of Google's wide and deep
Google's wide and deep recommender model sounds really cool, but I'm struggling to believe I'm grasping the wide section right so wanted to check my understanding.
Their paper says the following:
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Can we treat sentiment score of the review text as rating of the product?
I have a review text of the different products, And I need the rating of the product. So can we use sentiment score as the rating of the product.
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Recommendation system without user data
I have a recommendation project to build without user data.
Suppose I am building a initial recommendation system with the initial dataset with me only consisting of
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When to stop showing content on recommendation engines?
Let's take an example. I log into my Netflix account and see that it's suggesting the show Friends to me. But I have no interest in watching Friends. So I ignore it. The next time I login, it suggests ...
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Recommendation system depend on user rating and favorite list
In my project I have a database of Japanese Sake(rice wine).Each Sake has following attributes which has direct link to the taste of the Sake:
classification (enumeration 1-5 integer)
alcohol ...
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SVD++ in matrix form
I have been recently reading the following presentation and papers preceding it:
http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~ynyang/group-meeting/2014/matrix-factorization/Matrix-factorization-recommendation-system-...
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Mobile App Recommendation: How to get the rate of a specific user submit for a specific application
I have a mobile app recommendation project, so I need data set which has user-app matrix-rate.
Actually, I want to know what rate does a specific user submit for a specific application.
in other words,...
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In learning latent factors in matrix factorization, are weights learned based on similarity between e.g. users?
I implemented a recommendation system using user-user interaction data, learning missing ratings through alternating least squares and matrix factorization, which as I understand it, adjusts and ...
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How is the cross-product transformation defined for binary features?
I am reading the paper on Wide & Deep learning and for the wide component, it states that one of the most important transformations is the cross-product transformation. This is defined as follows:
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supervised similarity scoring system - recommender system
I have a dataset of movie collections with 10-15 features describing each movie. I also have a dataset of user ratings of the similarity between some random pairs of movies.
Using both of these data ...
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What is the difference between row-wise and column-wise Z-score normalization?
I have a data set, each row represents a movie name, each column is a feature (such as genres), I want to perform cosine similarity to find out the similarity between each movie, before that I need to ...
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What is the “matrix trick” in recommendation systems?
I just found slides from Matt Gormley (CMU) about recommendation systems. Under the heading "Unconstrained Matrix Factorization" he mentions:
Optimization problem
SGD
SGD with Regularization
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memory error in matrix cosine_similarity
I have (20905040, 7)
of a dataset to recommend 10 different product to the user
it could be larger than that but anyway I got memory error when processing the
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If I have to recommend 10 movies to the users
Let's say I have some information about a user and movie data similar to the following:
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Item-based recommender using K-NN
I'm trying to build an item-based recommender using k-nn. I have a list of items, all of which have some properties (features) in common.
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How to perform Learning to Rank for a small dataset
I am very interested in applying Learning to rank to my problem doamin. When I read through the literature of Learning to rank I ...
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How to validate model which outputs movies that are similar with no training data
At a high level, my code takes a wide variety of movie related features and computes a large cosine similarity matrix and assesses which movies are most similar.
I don't have any validation data so ...
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Predict Customer Next Purchase with Sequence
Suppose I buy products: [1,2,3,4]
Another customer X bought: [2,3]
Most probably customer X next purchase will be: 4
Sequence is very important in my problem
I tried association analysis using R, ...
