Consider the recommender as two separate datasets:
1) a "useful number" of similar users as a neighborhood, and
2) a lot of more distant weights summarized and factored in somehow.

The new graph triangle-finder code would find all neighborhoods for
all users in one job.

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes.  That is quite reasonably possible.  It isn't really micro-sharding
> since it will be different for every user rather than being a universal
> sharding of all users.
>
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Are there any recommender algorithms designed for micro-sharding the
>> data model? The use case would be a mobile app that stores only a data
>> model for the phone owner.
>>
>> It seems like a user-user recommender does not need data for all
>> users; nearby users plus some background noise should be enough to
>> achieve good quality recommendations.  The entire algorithm could
>> create a global dataset, and then pull out a small amount for a given
>> user.
>>
>> --
>> Lance Norskog
>> [email protected]
>>
>



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