FMs work really well for a whole range of things. Having implemented them myself, I can extend my services as a reviewer if anyone is willing to start on it.
Robin Anil | Software Engineer | +1 312 869 2602 | Google Inc. On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Ted Dunning <ted.dunn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Relative to Dan's recent mention of SOM as possible new project, here are > slides from KDD Cup 2012 in which Stephen Rendle describes how he did using > a very straightforward implementation of Factorization Machines [1,2]. > > > FMs are interesting in the context of Mahout because they can be used in a > wide variety of settings including recommendation and targeting and because > they have very good performance on a number of tasks. > > I should mention that Robin was the one who first mentioned FMs to me. > > The KDD 2012 competition [3] is of interest in any case because it provides > a large amount of realistic data for commercially important problems. > > [1] > > https://kaggle2.blob.core.windows.net/competitions/kddcup2012/2748/media/RendleSlides.pdf > > [2] > > https://kaggle2.blob.core.windows.net/competitions/kddcup2012/2748/media/Rendle.pdf > > [3] http://www.kddcup2012.org/ >
