Events have the natural good quality that having a cold start means that
you will naturally favor recent interactions simply because there won't be
any old interactions to deal with.
Unfortunately, that also means that you will likely be facing serious cold
start issues all the time. I have used
Well the greece thing was just an example for a thing you don't know
upfront - it could be any of the modeled feature on the cross recommender
input side (user segment, country, city, previous buys), some subpopulation
getting active, so the current approach, probably with sampling that
favours
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On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Pat Ferrel wrote:
> If Mahout were to use http://bit.ly/poisson-llr it would tend to favor
> new events in calculating the LLR score for later use in the threshold for
> whether a co or cross-occurrence iss incorporated in the
If Mahout were to use http://bit.ly/poisson-llr it would tend to favor new
events in calculating the LLR score for later use in the threshold for whether
a co or cross-occurrence iss incorporated in the model. This is very
interesting and would be useful in cases where you can keep a lot of
Pat, thanks for your help. especially the insights on how you handle the
system in production and the tips for multiple acyclic buckets.
Doing the combination signalls when querying sounds okay but as you say,
it's always hard to find the right boosts without setting up some ltr
system. If there