Questions tagged [recommender-system]
For questions related to recommender systems in the context of machine learning and data mining.
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Which machine learning algorithms can be used to build a recommendation system?
I am working on building a recommendation engine. I need to build a model that recommends similar items. Currently, I am using the Nearest Neighbor algorithm present in ...
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What is the best way to find the similarities between two text documents?
I would like to develop a platform in which people will write text and upload images. I am going to use Google API to classify the text and extract from the image all kinds of metadata. In the end, I ...
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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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Reducing the Number of Training Samples for collaborative filtering in recommender systems
I have the following problem: I am doing some research on the accuracy of recommender algorithms that are mostly used nowadays.
So, one way to measure their performance is by checking how well they ...
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How do I plot a matrix of ratings?
I have a .csv file called ratings.csv with the following structure:
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Which model is better given their training and validation errors?
Below you have the plots of the training and validation errors for two different models. Both plots show the RMSE values for the validation dataset versus the number of training epochs. It is observed ...
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Estimating Baselines using ALS
I am trying to figure out how ALS works when minimizing the following formula:
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$\text{min}_{\lbrace b_u,b_i \rbrace} \sum_{(u,i)\in \mathcal{K}} (r_{ui} - \bar{r} - b_u - b_i )^2 + \lambda_{...
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Cold start collaborative filtering with NLP
I’m looking to match two pieces of text - e.g. IMDb movie descriptions and each person’s description of the type of movies they like. I have an existing set of ~5000 matches between the two. I ...
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When is content-based more appropriate than collaborative filtering?
I know the difference between content-based and collaborative filtering approach in recommender systems. I also know some of the articles said collaborative filtering have some advantages than content-...
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Learning similarities between customers and offers representation
I am interested in a framework for learning the similarity of different input representations based on some common context. I have looked into word2vec, SVD and siamese networks, all of which are ...
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What are some limitations of using Collaborative Deep learning for Recommender systems?
Recently I worked on a paper by Hao Wang, Collaborative Deep learning for Recommender Systems; which uses a two way tightly coupled method, Collaborative filtering for Item correlation and Stacked ...
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How do stacked denoising autoencoders work
I've been studying a recommender system which uses a collaborative deep learning approach and Bayesian learning. It has the following NN representation :
I need to know the working of stacked ...
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Recommendation system based on content type
I am new to this field and would like to know that for what kind of data types other than images, recommendation system can be created using machine learning. Suppose for contents like audio or video, ...
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Over-exposure of certain items in content based recommendation engine
I'm working on a content based recommendation engine for ebooks. I create document vectors with 300 features for every ebook using a word2vec model trained on google news and determine recommendations ...
