Re: Ensemble recommender?

2011-09-14 Thread Sean Owen
There isn't. For the recommenders that work by computing an estimated preference value for items, I suppose you could average their estimates and rank by that. More crudely, you could stitch together the recommendations of recommender 1 and 2 by taking the top 10 amongst each of their top

Re: Ensemble recommender?

2011-09-14 Thread Danny Bickson
In terms of papers about ensemble methods/blending I suggest looking at the BigChaos Netflix paper: http://www.*netflixprize*.com/assets/*GrandPrize2009*_BPC_*BigChaos*.pdf See section 7. Best, Danny Bickson On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Sean Owen sro...@gmail.com wrote: There isn't. For

Re: Ensemble recommender?

2011-09-14 Thread Daniel Xiaodan Zhou
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have created an issue in Jira. Will work on it soon. On Sep 14, 2011, at 5:00 AM, Danny Bickson wrote: In terms of papers about ensemble methods/blending I suggest looking at the BigChaos Netflix paper:

Ensemble recommender?

2011-09-13 Thread Daniel Xiaodan Zhou
Is there an EnsembleRecommender or CompoundRecommender that takes input from other recommender algorithms and combine them to generate better results? If not, I'm thinking to contribute a patch. Any suggestions on implementation? Thanks. Daniel Zhou

Re: Ensemble recommender?

2011-09-13 Thread Ted Dunning
There isn't really any such thing although the SGD models are easy to glue together in this way. There is a guy named Praneet at UCI who is doing some feature sharding work that might relate to what you are doing. His email is praneetmha...@gmail.com On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 1:39 AM, Daniel