Thanks a lot Ryan! I am going through the code in the cf module. And do you know any current relevant issues that I can have a look or even start working on, to better my understanding of the the implementation of cf algorithm in mlpack?
Best, Wenhao On Tue, Feb 6, 2018 at 4:23 AM Ryan Curtin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 11:58:31AM +0000, Wenhao Huang wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My name is Wenhao and I am a senior computer science student at Peking > > University (Beijing, China). I plan to apply for GSoC and contribute to > > mlpack library so I guess it's better to start early. > > > > I took several courses on Machine Learning and I have research experience > > concerning application of machine learning on knowledge base. And I > > interned at an AI startup focused on CV for 4 months. C/C++ and python > are > > the languages I use most. > > > > Recently I am interested in recommender systems and I took a course on > > collaborative filtering. Thus I want to work on the CF project for GSoC > > 2018. So far I have installed mlpack and successfully run a few programs. > > Can someone give me some pointers on what to do next to get started on > the > > CF idea? Thanks! > > Hi Wenhao, > > I think the best thing to do would be to familiarize yourself with the > mlpack code. I might suggest building a CF model in C++ that uses > different factorizers, or, perhaps, tuning the parameters of a CF<> > model you have built to give maximum RMSE on something like the > GroupLens dataset. > > Once you are familiar with the code, you might look at discussions from > years past on this project. Here's an example search that returns some > results: > > > https://www.google.com/search?ei=8rx4WqrsI6SpjwSMp56IAg&q=site%3Aknife.lugatgt.org+collaborative+filtering&oq=site%3Aknife.lugatgt.org+collaborative+filtering&gs_l=psy-ab.3...3125.4482.0.4529.17.14.0.0.0.0.128.1043.9j4.13.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..11.0.0....0.csynPi-oRIc > > (and many of those results will themselves be linked to other posts) > > You can also browse the archives manually: > > http://knife.lugatgt.org/pipermail/mlpack/ > > I hope this is helpful! > > Thanks, > > Ryan > > -- > Ryan Curtin | "Avoid the planet Earth at all costs." > [email protected] | - The President >
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