It'd be a matter of making a brand-new distributed recommender. It need not have anything to do with SVDRecommender, which is a fine but separate non-parallel implementation.
Tacking on distributed slope-one is fairly easy, I think. Both together, with testing, documentation, etc. are certainly big enough for a GSoC project, probably a bit too large. I'd be pleased to see someone do a quite thorough job with an SVD-based recommender, and perhaps along the way analyzing and optimizing the SVD impl itself, and documenting and testing well and so on. That's a nice project IMHO. On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Richard Simon Just <i...@richardsimonjust.co.uk> wrote: > Just looking for some clarification. As a GSoC project would the SVD > option mentioned below be a case of integrating the distributed SVD of > MAHOUT-180 with the existing SVDRecommender? > > If so is there still a full GSoC project there? or would I need to > combine it with say making the slope-one recommender fully distributed too? > > Many Thanks > Richard >
