Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-04-08 Thread Niklas Ekvall
Thank you Ted! Do plan to do any talks in Sweden soon? Best, Niklas 2014-04-07 14:52 GMT+02:00 Ted Dunning ted.dunn...@gmail.com: That book is a fine beginning, but doesn't have a lot of detail. Check out Pat's very nice demo site for more information. I have also given a ton of talks on

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-04-08 Thread Ted Dunning
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Niklas Ekvall niklas.ekv...@gmail.comwrote: Do plan to do any talks in Sweden soon? Is last week soon enough? :-(

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-04-07 Thread Ted Dunning
That book is a fine beginning, but doesn't have a lot of detail. Check out Pat's very nice demo site for more information. I have also given a ton of talks on the subject. And, to answer your question, cooccurrence recommendation works great with diverse sources of behavior. On Sun, Apr 6,

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-04-06 Thread Niklas Ekvall
Hi Pat and Ted! Yes I agree with about the rank and MAP. But in this case, that is a good initial guess on the parameters *number of features* and *lambda*? Where can I find the best article about cooccurrence recommender? And can one use this approach for different types of data, e.g., ratings,

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-04-06 Thread Pat Ferrel
On Apr 6, 2014, at 2:48 AM, Niklas Ekvall niklas.ekv...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Pat and Ted! Yes I agree with about the rank and MAP. But in this case, that is a good initial guess on the parameters *number of features* and *lambda*? 20 or 30 features depending on the variance in your data,

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-04-06 Thread Niklas Ekvall
Thanks Pat! I did find a book by Ted Dunning and Ellen Friedman (Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendations) I guess I can us it to read more about co-occurrence recommender or co-occurrence analysis. Best, Niklas 2014-04-06 19:37 GMT+02:00 Pat Ferrel p...@occamsmachete.com:

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-30 Thread Niklas Ekvall
, it doesn't much hurt so you should always take as many as you can compute. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org wrote: Hi, does anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-30 Thread Sebastian Schelter
the argument that if you take too many features, it doesn't much hurt so you should always take as many as you can compute. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org wrote: Hi, does anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-30 Thread Niklas Ekvall
, it doesn't much hurt so you should always take as many as you can compute. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org wrote: Hi, does anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-30 Thread Ted Dunning
the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian -- https://github.com/bearrito @deepbearrito -- https://github.com/bearrito @deepbearrito

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-30 Thread Pat Ferrel
of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian -- https://github.com/bearrito @deepbearrito -- https://github.com/bearrito @deepbearrito

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-30 Thread Ted Dunning
Yeah... what Pat said. Off-line evaluations are difficult. At most, they provide directional guidance to be refined using live A/B testing. Of course, A/B testing of recommenders comes with a new set of tricky issues like different recommenders learning from each other. On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at

Number of features for ALS

2014-03-27 Thread Sebastian Schelter
Hi, does anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-27 Thread Ted Dunning
of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-27 Thread Tevfik Aytekin
much hurt so you should always take as many as you can compute. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org wrote: Hi, does anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-27 Thread Ted Dunning
the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-27 Thread j.barrett Strausser
...@apache.org wrote: Hi, does anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian -- https://github.com/bearrito @deepbearrito

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-27 Thread Ted Dunning
take as many as you can compute. On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 6:33 AM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org wrote: Hi, does anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian -- https

Re: Number of features for ALS

2014-03-27 Thread j.barrett Strausser
anyone know of a principled approach of choosing the number of features for ALS (other than cross-validation?) --sebastian -- https://github.com/bearrito @deepbearrito -- https://github.com/bearrito @deepbearrito