Questions tagged [recommender-system]
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Finding unobserved ratings using matrix factorization
Suppose that the utility matrix contains ratings of user on movies. How does matrix factorization find ratings for unobserved (user, movie) pair. Even though the purpose of the algorithm is to find ...
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Neighbourhood based approach on implicit feedback datasets
Is it possible to use a neighbourhood-based approach on implicit feedback dataset? I have a dataset with information about how many times a certain item was viewed by a particular user. I know that MF ...
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Including user-item pairs without interactions in implicit feedback dataset for recommender system
I have a dataset which contains information about how many times a particular user viewed certain item. So, I don't have rows for all combinations (where the value will be zero ofc because the user ...
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How to learn irrelevant words in an information retrieval system?
Right now my recommender system for information retrieval uses word embedding stogether with Tfidfs weights like written here:
http://nadbordrozd.github.io/blog/2016/05/20/text-classification-with-...
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Is it possible to rank feature importance after training a recommender system?
I need to train a recommender system on some movie recommendation data. The thing is, I wanted to use a random forest for the model, since I know you can print a feature hierarchy, after training. I'...
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Classification model for recommender system?
I have some data for various customers choosing one of 'n' products or no product. I have some useful features for each customer. I can build a multi-class classification problem out of this data and ...
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Item item similarity from both user data and content
I'm creating an item-item similarity matrix by combining implicit user data and static content data of the items. How can I determine the weights for these two data and the weights for different ...
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Does sum of embeddings make sense?
Referring to the LightFM model from paper Metadata Embeddings for User and Item Cold-start Recommendations, the model tries to learn $d$-dimensional user and item feature embeddings $e_f^U$ and $e_f^...
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Similar students using Machine Learning
I have a student performance data, where I have marks of various subjects for the students and I want to find similar students with good marks in a particular subject using machine learning.
How do I ...
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What methods exist for recommendation based on implicit information?
Assume we have a dataset of which products a user is using on a monthly basis. Let's further assume that the number of users is $n$ and the number of products is $p$ and that we are in the $p\ll n$ ...
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Job Recommendation System
I am building a Job Recommendation System where I have Student Data for different subjects in Machine Learning(Data Viz, Python, Statistics, etc) and their skills from the resume. Need to Recommend ...
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How to select random data for two different recommender systems?
The business problem: We have two different vendors that offer personalized recommender engines and want to do A/B testing with them. The recommendation will give the user a personalized offer via a ...
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Matrix Factorization for Recommender Systems
Referring to the paper Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems, Loss function for Matrix Factorization using bias terms is given as:
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\min_{p, q, b}\sum_{(u,i)\in\kappa}(r_{ui} - \mu ...
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Regularization term in Matrix Factorization
I'm trying to build a naive recommender system using latent factor model for MovieLens dataset. From the observed set of ratings I'm trying to build a model which will decompose the sparse matrix to N ...
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Is this matrix correctly built?
I was reading an article called "Ensemble learning in recommender systems: combining multiple user interactions for ranking personalization" where they explain a method they use called "BPR ...
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Create recommendation system to recommend products to a customer on any e-commerce website
The recommendations should be based on the products consumer has searched on other sites like Google.
This basically means, that recommendations have to be made to the user based on his/her search ...
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Creating a Feature to determine popularity
I am Building a Recommendation System in which i have Multiple Category , I want to Know how Popular is my Product in each Categories. For that I am considering Probabilty as one factor. For e.g I ...
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Hotels data for recommendation engine
What are the ways get hotel data such as reviews, descriptions, ratings and etc? My company needs it for our internal system. I searched for some APIs and web scraping, but couldn't find anything good....
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How to prepare data for recommendation engine Apache Mahout
i am new to machine learning and data science.
I am working on simple user recommendation based on their interests, below is my java[though not required] models per user:
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Can a recommendation system be built without any user ratings?
I was planning to make an artwork recommendation system as a project by using the WikiArt open source dataset available on kaggle, I'm still looking for datasets which might already have user ratings ...
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How do I perform Leave One Out Cross Validation For Top n Recommendation Sytems?
I am new in making recommendation systems . I am using the surpriselib library to evaluate my recommendations. All the Accuracy Metrics are well supported in this library. But I also want to compute ...
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recommender systems : how to deal with items that change over time?
Let's say I am building a recommender system where items change through time. We suppose that each transaction is composed of :
an item $i$ in list of items $(i_1, i_2, i_3, .., i_m)$.
a user $u$ in ...
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cosine similarity between items (purchase data) and normalisation
I'm using IndexedRowMatrix which represents the products's user purchase behaviours and in order to build product recommendations, I use cosine similarity to calculate similarities between products. ...
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Poor performance of Collaborative Filtering using Matrix Factorization
I am trying to train a collaborative filtering model using embeddings (or matrix factorization) as described here on the movielens dataset. Here is the Keras implementation:
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Recommendation system for implicit rating
I have a dataset that gives an information about user, item and number of time the user has bought the items(counts). i.e. I have 3 columns : user, item and counts. I want to make a recommendor that ...
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How do I store/model data needed for my recommendation module?
I'm reading data from a store's product catalog, a 100mb xml file which contains product-wise attributes like prices, categories, etc.
Given a product_id, my job ...
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Does a matrix factorization recommendation engine use user/item related features?
All the tutorials I can find about matrix factorization recommendation systems start with importing users, items, and user-item-ratings, but then only use the rating matrix to train the recommender (...
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Evaluating recommendations quality and accuracy
I'm developing a recommendation system, that should provide my clients what actions they should take in order to hit certain targets.
The underlying mechanics of the process is physical - where both ...
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Recommender system for next career step
I want to build a recommender system that suggests the next step in your career.
About the dataset. About 50'000 Users with following informations:
Skills (tags, string value)
every job they did (...
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Neural network model for sparse multi-class classifier on Tensorflow
The problem I'm trying to solve is the following:
the data is Movielens with N_users=6041 and N_movies=3953, ~1 million ratings.
For each user, a vector of size N_movies is defined, and the values ...
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Recommender system that connect users with each other , should I go for content based or collaborative filtering?
I am trying to build a system where user come on the platform and he chooses a topic(predefined few topics) and then we connect him with any random online user who chooses the same topic. Then they ...
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Building Recommender for book paragraphs
I have some application which are offering a book to read. Users normally read some paragraphs of it only (it contains +6000 paragraphs).
Looking at scatter for ...
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Data model and algorithm for recommending “related” interests
On my app, when a user selects an interest (example: ios), I'd like to show related interests (swift, xcode, apple, etc). I have a list of around 700 interests/tags (about 300 of them can be ...
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Collaborative filtering with human-adjusted latent factors
Having tried some of movie recommendation engines available on the web I have the feeling they are not satisfactory. I just fail to get movies similar to those I like based on traits interested for me ...
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How to create user and item profile in an item to item collaborative filtering? (Non-rating case)
I want to build a recommender system for a coupons website which should do the following: Given the past purchase behaviour of a user, recommend coupons which the user is likely to buy. The data does ...
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SVD++ vs wALS: Which is the more effective for implicit feedback in Recommendation system
As SVD++ can be used for implicit feedback, I would like to know whether SVD++ can gives better results than the wALS algorithm (paper: Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets ).
I can'...
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Recommending top answerers for a Question on Quora/Stackexchange sites
I want to make a tool that will tell me who can potentially answer a question on Quora or StackExchange. The tool will take input the text of a question, and output a sorted list of users who can ...
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Which recommender system: Content based or Collaborative filtering?
I want to build a recommender system for a coupons website which should do the following:
Given the past purchase behaviour of a user, recommend coupons which the user is likely to buy.
The data does ...
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Can I sum up feature vectors of a user‘s collection?
I want to find items that are similar to items users already have in their collection. Every item has attributes, so I created feature vectors where every element of the vector represents an attribute ...
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How to choose negative examples for recommendation system?
I am building a search recommendation system for e-commerce which generates most relevant results given an input query. I have framed it as a classification problem (learning to rank) and using ...
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What model can I build with a limited dataset?
I have a dataset consisting of purchasing history from an e-commerce website. The columns consist of customer id, product id, <...
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Problem in Recommendation for categorical data?
I have been building a recommendation model to recommend certain questions in an interaction platform to users to help each other.
I have calculated an affinity score between categories to find which ...
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How to recommend items after finding similar users in recommendation system
As the title explains my problem, I'm done with creating a recommendation system that can give me similar users for any given new user. The problem I face is, If I extract the list of products that ...
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Taking Neural Network's false positives as the recommendation system result?
I am creating a recommendation system and considering two parallel ways of formalizing the problem. One classical, using proximity (recommend the product to the customer if a majority vote of 2k+1 ...
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Two definitions of DCG measure
I wanted to check the definition of Discounted Cumulative Gain (DCG) measure in the original paper Jarvelin and it seems it differs from the one given in the later literature Wang. Originally, for $n$ ...
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Skills based recommendation system
Assuming that I have a list of Users with a list of skills: (each value is a different skill)
And a list of Tasks with a list of demanded skills:
Based on a manual classification that returned: (...
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Streaming Recommender System using Spark
I have trained a recommender model using ALS from spark.mlib. Now I want to consider the incoming ratings to my model. My data is in form of spark's DataFrame. The idea is to use spark streaming, so I ...
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Examples of time scale aware recommender engine?
I was wondering if anyone has heard of any research into time scale-aware recommender engines? What I mean by that is a recommender engine that "knows" that different items are bought on different ...
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How to implement a basic query management and recommendation system
I'm trying to prototype a system where given a textual query (e.g. a question), I get a list of most relevant documents/questions among a pool of available documents/questions (similar to what we see ...
