Hi, I am a student of recommender systems and have been testing Mahout’s
recommender system (user-based and item-based collaborative filtering) for
the last few months and have a few basic questions:
(1) GenericUserBasedRecommender Prediction calculation:
I noticed that Mahout has implemented
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Carlos Seminario recsysu...@gmail.comwrote:
Although this is certainly a sound approach, other approaches have been
suggested in the literature as cited in
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Recommender+Documentation.
Can you please provide
Sean: Thanks for your quick and detailed response. I think it's great (and
am very appreciative!) that Mahout implemented the basic Collaborative
Filtering algorithms because that means that a lot of the heavy lifting
has already been done. The built-in Mahout evaluators also make it easier to
