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,

Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Pat Ferrel
After having integrated several versions of the Mahout and Myrrix recommenders at fairly large scale. I was interested in solving three problems that these did not directly provide for: 1) realtime queries for recs using data not yet incorporated into the training set. Myrrix allows this but

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: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread SriSatish Ambati
It's quite good. Sri On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pat Ferrel p...@occamsmachete.com wrote: After having integrated several versions of the Mahout and Myrrix recommenders at fairly large scale. I was interested in solving three problems that these did not directly provide for: 1)

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Sebastian Schelter
The top 3 recommendations based on videos you liked are very good! Nice job. On 04/06/2014 07:26 PM, Pat Ferrel wrote: After having integrated several versions of the Mahout and Myrrix recommenders at fairly large scale. I was interested in solving three problems that these did not directly

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Andrew Musselman
Pat, do you still want help putting this into a new mahout/examples, or work out how to do the distribution via github pointer? There's an open bug for that. On Apr 6, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Sebastian Schelter s...@apache.org wrote: The top 3 recommendations based on videos you liked are very

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Ted Dunning
This can actually be simplified a bit by using ItemSimilarityJob to call RowSimilarityJob. Nice work overall. On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:21 PM, Andrew Musselman andrew.mussel...@gmail.com wrote: Pat, do you still want help putting this into a new mahout/examples, or work out how to do the

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Pat Ferrel
As I said below RSJ is actually all that is needed. But with the entire recommender also integrated we can compare the two in the demo framework. For instance one of the lines of recs on a video detail page (the top one) is the actual RSJ output. When I get time, the recommend page will have a

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Pat Ferrel
Yes. It still needs some work—the github repo is hard to use without a better explanation of Solr integration. It kind of leaves you most of the way there without a clear idea of how to do the rest. Also thinking about porting to Spark since all it really needs is RSJ and Matrix Multiply, not

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Pat Ferrel
BTW this isn’t an attempt to show off, it’s an attempt to start a conversation about fast scalable hybrid recommendations—content-based + collaborative filtering recommenders. Anyone who has started a business that uses a recommender has had to deal with the ‘cold-start’ problem. No

RE: Mahout v0.9 is not working with 2.2.0-cdh5.0.0-beta-1

2014-04-06 Thread Phan, Truong Q
Hi Gokhan, I still could not build the Mahout out from the trunk. Please see below for the error. svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mahout/trunk/ mahout-trunk cd mahout-trunk mvn clean install

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Pat Ferrel p...@occamsmachete.com wrote: Combining this kind of metadata with CF data has been important to the big guys but elusive to the rest of us. And a recommender that seamlessly integrates the different methods is rare. Solr + Mahout does it better than

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Ted Dunning
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Pat Ferrel p...@occamsmachete.com wrote: As I said below RSJ is actually all that is needed. But with the entire recommender also integrated we can compare the two in the demo framework. For instance one of the lines of recs on a video detail page (the top one)

Re: Solr+Mahout Recommender Demo Site

2014-04-06 Thread Ted Dunning
It looks like it works well. And it is gorgeous as well. Nice work. Very nice. On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 8:59 PM, SriSatish Ambati srisat...@0xdata.comwrote: It's quite good. Sri On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Pat Ferrel p...@occamsmachete.com wrote: After having integrated several