Questions tagged [recommender-system]
Everything related to recommender systems
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Hybrid recommendation system
I am building a recommendation system on the Movie Lens dataset. I want to use the movie descriptions to build content based filtering to suggest movies to new users and to solve the Cold start ...
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How to setup train/test and evaluation to compare multiple recommender Models?
long story short, I need to compare perfmance of various reccomender models on a dataset. The data contains users and their ratings of some items. I need to compare various approaches (collaborative ...
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Detect paterns over time in multivariate dataset
I have a dataset representing the stock of a shop over several days. For each day, I have hourly inventories of the objects in the shop. Some products are sold, and others might temporarily disappear (...
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Recommendation System: Two-Tower Model Underperforming Simple Embedding Average Baseline
I'm trying to build a recommendation on a dataset of product purchases. The dataset consists of roughly 4 Amazon products that a particular user has bought (in sequence). I want to use the first 3 ...
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How to build a recommendation system Based on user infos and without ratings?
I would like to build a recommendation system based only on user informations(age,sex,zipcode,and some quiz answers),based on those features i want to recommend assurance products, but i am confused ...
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Can equation from paper "Item-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms" be used for implicit feedback?
Article Item-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation Algorithms by Badrul Sarwar, George Karypis, Joseph Konstan, and John Riedl gives this equation:
$$P_{u,i} = \frac{\sum_{j}^S s_{i,j} * R_{u,j}...
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How does implicit library calculates scores for items?
What method does implicit(python library) use to calculate scores when recommending items to users using the CosineRecommender model?
I understood that it happens in the NearestNeighboursScorer class. ...
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Does Factorization Machines accept continuous variables?
Most of the implementations I have seen of FM rely on an Embedding lookup matrix, restricting the variables that can be used to some categorical variable. Is there a way to use FM with both ...
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Candidate sampling
In the context of extreme multiclass classification with softmax, if I use candidate sampling where each training sample has different output node meanings, how does the network determine at inference ...
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Retrieving products based on pre-existing filters, the fastest way possible
Introduction and case scenario
I am developing a microservice for our project, which is going to handle a section named 'custom categories'. The scenario for this part is this:
1- Define the custom ...
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Recommendation: matrix factorization vs neural network training
In the case of collaborative filtering, say we have a matrix of item-item (could also be user-item) interactions.
In the "matrix factorization" approach, we use algorithms such as SVD or ...
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Is Averaging vectors generally good approach?
I am working on an ecommerce application where I have eaters and restaurants. Suppose that I am able to generate vector for eaters somehow, then can I find vector for restaurant using weighted average ...
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How to train a recommender based on user_features, item_features and likes?
It is my first time dealing with recommender systems, so I don't understand which algorithm should I use. I am given dataset with columns "user_id", "item_id", "like" (0 ...
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Recreating results from Research Paper
so I have been trying to recreate the results from this particular paper (Neural Collaborative Filtering).
The dataset I use closely resembles this .
I understand that I should my data into train and ...
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Recommendation System Algorithms for Multi-entity ranking
I'm looking for industry engineering or research papers tacking the problem of universally ranking disparate items. For example, one example is the Doordash recommender, which their team attempted to ...
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job title normalizer
is there any way to normalize job titles using ml or nlp?
examples:
raw title: UX/UI Engineers
normalized title: Software Engineers
raw title: UX/UI Designer
normalized title: Graphic Designers
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predict next career suggestion
I have a dataset having job and description. i want to make model which can predict what are the thing that user needs to improve when the user inputs his skills.
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If he has skills - ...
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I want to make a Career suggestion model
There is a dataset having job titles and the descriptions. when a person enter his skills i need to output which category of job he should do. i have already created that using cosine similarity.(If ...
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is concatenating embeddings of different dimension as input to two tower model valid?
I'm trying to build a two tower retrieval system for recommender system. Sudden question popped into my head, when concatenating all embeddings then sending it off to dense layer, does embeddings with ...
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Upsell and cross sell opportunity via recommender system
I have a million residential customers across the United States who purchase my service. Some buy a single service, some buy multiple services.
I want to identify similar customers who are alike in ...
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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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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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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
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Movie tags
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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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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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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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Cluster products that are frequently bought together
I have a dataset of articles metadata for each article, so something like this:
product_id
color
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red
t-shirt
and another containing the transactions of customers, which looks like this:
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IllegalArgumentException at org.apache.xbean.asm5.ClassReader.<init>(Unknown Source) when training an ALS implementation of spark in scala
I was following this tutorial trying to write a collaborative recommender system using the alternating least squares algorithm in spark. I am using the movie lens dataset which can be found here.
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Evaluate a Recommender System based on the data between two months
currently my company's planning to use a new Recommender tool/library for a book website, and now we want to compare the result between these two tools (both of the tool use Universal Recommender ...
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How to add significance weighting in user based collaborative filtering
I have been learning about recommender systems these past days. More specifically about the collaborative filtering. While exploring I found that it can be useful to use "significance weighting&...
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Customizing Collaborative Filtering for Product Affinity
I'm trying to build a recommendation system and I am trying to use Collaborative Filtering (please let me know if other models fit better for my use case).
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My data is for an e-commerce site ...
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Why is accuracy not a useful measure for information retrieval problems?
I have been studying about information retrieval and recommender systems. While reading about it I found that accuracy not a useful measure in information retrieval.
I understand that, accuracy might ...
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In what cases does the addition of a nonlinearity decrease neural network performance?
I have a simple model, which learns well. It is a two tower recommender where we maximise dot product between positive pairs. The current structure is just an embedding layer followed by a dense layer ...
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Should I train the model on the whole dataset in recommender systems?
After reading some tutorials and articles about recommender systems, I can't really figure out whether I should split the dataset into train/test sets or use the whole dataset to allow the model to ...
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Minimum number of items required to build a good hybrid recommender system?
I am trying to build a hybrid recommender system using lightFM that only recommends one of $3$ items. In my case, they are marketing campaigns that a company would like to recommend for users at a ...
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information retrieval vs recommendation system
Apologizes in advance, if this question is so basic,
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I have read this paper and noticed that Information Retrieval can be identified as a field of study whereas Recommender Systems are a ...
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What is n_factors in surprise SVD
The documentation of Surprise library is not that great. Can someone please help with details of n_factors in SVD method of Surprise. It simply says:
n_factors – The number of factors. Default is 100....
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Nearest Neighbor Recommendation System w/ categorical variables
I would like to build a recommendation system:
no ratings are available at the time of recommendation, therefore only a purely context-based recommendation system is needed
as input features answers ...
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Personalized Recommendations In Content Based Recommendation System
I'm trying to create a content based recommender system. The system accuracy is quite enough when finding similar items but it's not as good as when recommending items to a specific user.
I use ...
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