Thanks sebastian. I guess im looking more for some hints on how to use the mahout API for this.
1) Does mahout support pure distributed collaborative filtering ? 2) If so , is there any available example of how to use the Mahout API for this? On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jay, > > there's not much documentation unfortunately. We're in the process of > creating that however. We removed the pseudo-distributed recommender, > mainly because nobody ever used it. There are two research papers that > could help you with understanding the other two distributed recommenders: > > For ALS: > > Distributed Matrix Factorization with MapReduce using a series of > Broadcast-Joins, RecSys'13 > > http://ssc.io/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sys024-schelter.pdf > > For item-based: > > Scalable Similarity-Based Neighborhood Methods with MapReduce, RecSys'12 > > http://ssc.io/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/rec11-schelter.pdf > > > > On 03/28/2014 02:04 PM, Jay Vyas wrote: > >> Hi mahout: >> >> Looking through the source code there are 3 distributed recommenders... >> >> the als recommender >> the item recommender >> the pseudo recommender >> >> Any docs differentiating these? >> >> > -- Jay Vyas http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
