Re: Efficiently writing all the recommendation to a file

2015-11-20 Thread Ted Dunning
There are a few problems that you have. 1) user-based recommendation is often slower than item-based (sometimes MUCH slower). This can make a 2-10x difference in practice 2) pre-computing recommendations is usually much less efficient than computing them on the fly (because typically few users

Efficiently writing all the recommendation to a file

2015-11-20 Thread Gughan Raj
Hi, I have been using mahout for running a user based recommendation. My data has 1M users and 3M associations. I want to write the output of the recommender object to a file and using a long primitive iterator takes lot of time. I want to know is there a way to write all recommendations to a