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Interaction requirements for user-item data for Content Based Filtering RS

I am trying to build a recommender system using content based filtering for recipes. I am new to recommender systems. My user-item interactions table contains mostly users who have only rated one item ...
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How the RecommenderNet model works

I'm newbie to collaborative filtering based recommendation, I have some questions about collaborative filtering when using keras' RecommenderNet model The RecommenderNet model uses Item-based ...
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How to combine Image-based recommender and Collborative recommender?

I am making a hybrid recommender of two models: Collaborative and Image. Hybrid will receive 2 additional percentage parameters to calculate rating between user and item. For example, to predict ...
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How to predict rating in Image-based recommender system?

Currently I have metadata files, train _rating and test_rating. I have built a model that allows users to input an image and suggest products with similar images. I wanted to make my image-based model ...
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RecSys model performance stalling at 47% AUC and F1-Score. Is the problem due to ratio of users to items in my dataset?

I'm having trouble with making my validation metrics go down for the binary_crossentropy and go up for the F1-score and AUC. I've tried tuning my hyper parameters such as the number of latent features ...
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Collaborative Filtering using ALS

We are trying to use collaborative filtering mechanism for recommendations, implicit data, based on users are navigating to. Trying ALS (using Spark) which makes sense here. All fine. Now the model ...
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What resources can be used to get reliable information about recommender systems and using time feature?

I am working on a recommender system that suggests games to users based on their playing history. So far, I have not used the period - when the user played specific games. I want to test my ...
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What are the benefits of using recommendation models over classification or regression models?

I understand there are specialized models for recommendation such as Collaborative Filtering, Matrix Factorization, or Factorization Machine. But I think recommendation problems can be framed as ...
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Can I use NDCG as a loss function in Tensorflow recommender?

I am trying to follow the sample code here to build a dcn model. I want to use ndcg as the loss function and metrics, but the default one here is rmse. https://www.tensorflow.org/recommenders/...
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ML recommendation techniques where all users are not in training set

I have a list of orders, which contains a list of items. I need to use machine learning to suggest other items to customers based purely on their basket at the time of checkout, considering the ...
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Advice on how to approach a recommendation model for marketing

I am working on a project to provide recommendations to the marketing team to launch effective campaigns. The dataset I have has data on existing customers, their demographic and billing details as ...
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Matrix Factorization with SVD/Gradient Descent - Dealing with new users

I'm working on implementing matrix factorization for a recommender system. I implemented matrix factorization, once with stochastic gradient descent and once with scipy's svds() function. The thing ...
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how to treat tied condition in ndcg calculation?

I am trying to calculate ndcg manually, and not sure how to treat tied condition. For example, item A, B, C, D, the actual rating is 1, 0, 0,0. Should irank = 1,2,3,4. or 1,2,2,2, or 1,3,3,3?
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Implicit feedback based recommendation - User - User recommendation

My dataset involves customer_id, item_id and Count of purchases. My datset size is small...we have 15 users and 317 items.. Currently, am trying to build a recommendation system based on user based ...
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How to update the weights of a ranking algorithms through unsupervised learning?

I have, let's say, 100 samples with n features, and I want to rank them by learning the weights for each feature. Weights must be learned from implicit ratings from the user (eg. user click). However, ...
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Why are similarities all close to 1 in my two tower recommender?

I am trying to build a simple two tower recommender system on the MovieLens 100k dataset. The user tower is just a simple embedding layer. The item tower uses an embedding layer and concats that with ...
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Name of metric: percentage of K for 100% recall

I have a recommendation system problem where full recall is important. Thus, the standard metrics of recall@k is insufficient. Rather, what I want to measure is how much of the recommendations must be ...
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How to build a recommender system for recommending skewed positive class examples using e.g. one-class classification model or anomaly detection?

I want to build a recommendation system for accounts purchasing some items. The ratio of purchase events to view events is very low (less than 1% items that are viewed get bought). Right now I am ...
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how does netflix calculate the percentage match scores?

I know that these scores are calculated by considering the users' past interactions. But I need some details here. For example, suppose that user A has watched the movies X, Y, and Z. For a new movie ...
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Unique Feature Selection's for customers using Azure ML Studio

I have this weird kind of requirement that i need for my azure ml model, not sure how to make it, so its that i will provide the model a bunch of data and in that data each row signifies a single ...
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Can I use faiss as retrieve on recommendation system?

I'm planning on using faiss to generate candidates and then lightgbm to rank the candidates. I think about using E-commerce data, as most of the examples I see using faiss are textual data. Is using ...
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Surprise NMF object is not callable

I am building a recommender system using the Sushi Preference Dataset and the NMF (Non-negative Matrix Factorization) model. I am implementing the same using the Surprise library. I want to use ...
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Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems as a regression ( rating 1 to 10) or classification (0 or 1)

we solve a Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems as a regression ( rating 1 to 10) or classification (0 or 1) why we see that a lot of works in Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems change ...
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converting Rating System for Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems

Why we convert rating (1 to 5 or 1 to 10) to Binary Rating System for Collaborative Filtering Recommender Systems and what is benefit
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How to prepare data if each item has multiple categories (like tags)

I'm working on a recommender system that will recommend movies to users. Movie ratings Movie User Rating 100 201 5 105 256 8 ... ... ... Movie tags Movie Tag 100 1 100 2 100 8 105 2 105 5 ....
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In recommendation systems, for methods that use backproporgation to get user feature, do they need to retrain the whole model when a new user is added

I'm tying to learn about recommendation systems recently. I have some deeplearning background so I focused more on machine learning based methods for recommendation systems. I see that a lot of paper ...
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Supervised ranking algorithms

I'm working on a problem statement which involves ranking some short-lived items in an order such that the items expected to sell the most in the next n days are ranked on top - basically ranking ...
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tensorflow recommeders item item recommender

I am trying to create an item-item recommender using tensorflow recommenders (TFRS). I have successfully created a user-item recommender using TFRS using the code at this link as a template: TFRS ...
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Generate vector database for userdata

I need a point in the right direction for the problem I'm trying to solve: I have a lot of already classified short articles. The articles themselves or a reference to them should be stored in some ...
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Implementing efficient "Customers who viewed this, also bought that" recommendation algorithm

I'm not sure how to formulate this but I'll have a go. This code should be completely reproducible given the data below. I hope I've been clear in my question. I'm trying to implement a recommendation ...
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How to build a recommendation system with user data and their preferences without having ratings?

I have a data of users and their preferences. Suppose id, age, height, preferred height and preferred age these columns and nothing else. I want to recommend user most suitable users based on the ...
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Do we have any range of values for MAP@K, which are considered as good to evaluate a recommendation system

I am using MAP@K as metric for the recommendation system I am building. Currently, I am seeing a value of 0.16, which I am not sure if can be considered as a good value. Any suggestions on what range ...
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Matching items in a recommender system

I would like to ask for a proposal for a machine learning model that would be suitable for the following problem: I have a training set where each element of type A corresponds to a certain number of ...
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How to add query filter to the Nearest Neighbors algorithm?

I have Nearest Neighbors model, built with sklearn sklearn.neighbors.NearestNeighbors, which I use to make content based recommendations. Sometimes I need to ...
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In-batch Random Negative Sampling

I'm trying to train a recommender model using In-batch Random Negative Sampling as described in the following paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06156.pdf. I'm having a bit of difficulty wrapping my ...
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Rules/Guidelines for Custom Weightage and Hyper-parameter tuning

I have a movie and user-ratings dataset. After implementing the content-based filtering technique, I figured, I can improvise the results even further by assigning weightage to the parameters based on ...
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Clustering methods for text and image features

I want to build a recommender system with unlabeled data and used TF-IDF to extract text features from a given short description and VGG-16 to extract image features. I am looking for a way to combine ...
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Learning to Rank Suitability

Say there is an intermediary company that offers different kinds of loans from a number of banks. My job is to determine the order/ranking in which the bids should be displayed to the customer. For ...
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Why is a model server needed to generate feature IDs in Bytedance's Monolith system?

I was reading Bytedance's paper on real-time recommendation systems (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.07663.pdf) and I was confused by the figure on page 2. In the Online Training Stage, why do we need the ...
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How to build a Resume-to-Job Description matcher based on a parsed JSON Resume dataset?

For my capstone project/internship I'm working on an "HR assistant" tool designed to help match, score and rank resumes given a job description and/or requirements. I have inquired about ...
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Which is the loss function used for validating a CF Recommender System?

I am developing (from scratch) a memory-based CF Recommender System based on movielens dataset. My CF RS uses a URM (User Rating Matrix) where r_ij contains the rating the user i gave to movie j (or ...
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Product/Consumer tag weights from previous sales

Problem statement I have a series of products that have been assigned tags, resulting in a vector of ones and zeros for each product (1 = product has this tag, 0 = product does not have this tag). I ...
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Obtaining labels to compute recall@ for recommended systems

Let's say we have a recommended system with 2 steps: candidate selection and ranking. For candidate selection we want to have high recall, where we can define recall as number of items recommended ...
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recommender engine with ALS and expired products

I built a recommender engine with ALS (using implicit) to recommend web articles to a given user. The articles expire after a while (a couple of weeks) and I'm using several months worth of data to ...
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Resources for Promotion/Demotion Strategies for ML Item Recommendation Systems?

We are looking to design a system where specific items or categories of items can be boosted/promoted up or relegated/demoted down the recommendation order. What are the common strategies or standards ...
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Difference between recommender system and appetency score

I'm wondering about the difference between the recommendation system and the appetency score. I already know that the appetency score is a binary classification problem for one product where we try to ...
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Using RecSim trained agent in production

I am new to using Reinforcement Learning in Recommender Systems. Can someone please give me pointers on how to use an agent trained using Google's Recsim in production?
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Meaning of unit weight for negative impressions in 'Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations'

I'm having some trouble understanding this section of the paper: Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations 4.2 Modeling Expected Watch Time ... The model is trained with logistic regression ...
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Applying feedback in content based recommendation

I have a content based recommender system, which finds similar items given a list of past liked items using cosine similarity. What would be best way to implement feedback or personalization in the ...
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Cluster products that are frequently bought together

I have a dataset of articles metadata for each article, so something like this: product_id color type 1234 red t-shirt and another containing the transactions of customers, which looks like this: ...
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