- Scalable recommendation algorithm based on Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) and Collaborative Filtering.
- Distributed implementation of LSH with Apache Spark.
Talk with Yves Raimond at the GPU Tech Conference on Marth 28, 2018 in San Jose, CA.
Abstract:
In this talk, we will survey how Deep Learning methods can be applied to personalization and recommendations. We will cover why standard Deep Learning approaches don't perform better than typical collaborative filtering techniques. Then we will survey we will go over recently published research at the intersection of Deep Learning and recommender systems, looking at how they integrate new types of data, explore new models, or change the recommendation problem statement. We will also highlight some of the ways that neural networks are used at Netflix and how we can use GPUs to train recommender systems. Finally, we will highlight promising new directions in this space.
The document discusses recommender systems and describes several techniques used in collaborative filtering recommender systems including k-nearest neighbors (kNN), singular value decomposition (SVD), and similarity weights optimization (SWO). It provides examples of how these techniques work and compares kNN to SWO. The document aims to explain state-of-the-art recommender system methods.
by Harald Steck (Netflix Inc., US), Roelof van Zwol (Netflix Inc., US) and Chris Johnson (Spotify Inc., US)
Slides of the tutorial on interactive recommender systems at the 2015 conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys).
Interactive recommender systems enable the user to steer the received recommendations in the desired direction through explicit interaction with the system. In the larger ecosystem of recommender systems used on a website, it is positioned between a lean-back recommendation experience and an active search for a specific piece of content. Besides this aspect, we will discuss several parts that are especially important for interactive recommender systems, including the following: design of the user interface and its tight integration with the algorithm in the back-end; computational efficiency of the recommender algorithm; as well as choosing the right balance between exploiting the feedback from the user as to provide relevant recommendations, and enabling the user to explore the catalog and steer the recommendations in the desired direction.
In particular, we will explore the field of interactive video and music recommendations and their application at Netflix and Spotify. We outline some of the user-experiences built, and discuss the approaches followed to tackle the various aspects of interactive recommendations. We present our insights from user studies and A/B tests.
The tutorial targets researchers and practitioners in the field of recommender systems, and will give the participants a unique opportunity to learn about the various aspects of interactive recommender systems in the video and music domain. The tutorial assumes familiarity with the common methods of recommender systems.
DATE: Wednesday, Sept 16, 2015, 11:00-12:30
Recommender systems: Content-based and collaborative filteringViet-Trung TRAN
This document provides an overview of recommender systems, including content-based and collaborative filtering approaches. It discusses how content-based systems make recommendations based on item profiles and calculating similarity between user and item profiles. Collaborative filtering is described as finding similar users and making predictions based on their ratings. The document also covers evaluation metrics, complexity issues, and tips for building recommender systems.
A Multi-Armed Bandit Framework For Recommendations at NetflixJaya Kawale
In this talk, we present a general multi-armed bandit framework for recommendations on the Netflix homepage. We present two example case studies using MABs at Netflix - a) Artwork Personalization to recommend personalized visuals for each of our members for the different titles and b) Billboard recommendation to recommend the right title to be watched on the Billboard.
BERT is a language representation model that was pre-trained using two unsupervised prediction tasks: masked language modeling and next sentence prediction. It uses a multi-layer bidirectional Transformer encoder based on the original Transformer architecture. BERT achieved state-of-the-art results on a wide range of natural language processing tasks including question answering and language inference. Extensive experiments showed that both pre-training tasks, as well as a large amount of pre-training data and steps, were important for BERT to achieve its strong performance.
Context-aware Recommendation: A Quick ViewYONG ZHENG
Context-aware recommendation systems take into account additional contextual information beyond just the user and item, such as time, location, and companion. There are three main approaches: contextual prefiltering splits items or users based on context; contextual modeling directly integrates context into models like matrix factorization; and CARSKit is an open source Java library for building context-aware recommender systems.
This document summarizes an presentation about personalizing artwork selection on Netflix using multi-armed bandit algorithms. Bandit algorithms were applied to choose representative, informative and engaging artwork for each title to maximize member satisfaction and retention. Contextual bandits were used to personalize artwork selection based on member preferences and context. Netflix deployed a system that precomputes personalized artwork using bandit models and caches the results to serve images quickly at scale. The system was able to lift engagement metrics based on A/B tests of the personalized artwork selection models.
These are the slides of my talk at the 2019 Netflix Workshop on Personalization, Recommendation and Search (PRS). This talk is based on previous talks on research we are doing at Spotify, but here I focus on the work we do on personalizing Spotify Home, with respect to success, intent & diversity. The link to the workshop is https://prs2019.splashthat.com/. This is research from various people at Spotify, and has been published at RecSys 2018, CIKM 2018 and WWW (The Web Conference) 2019.
Building Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations at SpotifyVidhya Murali
In this talk, we will get into the architectural and functional details as to how we build scalable and robust data pipelines for music recommendations at Spotify. We will also discuss some of the challenges and an overview of work to address these challenges.
Dimensionality reduction: SVD and its applicationsViet-Trung TRAN
SVD (singular value decomposition) is a technique for dimensionality reduction that decomposes a matrix A into three matrices: U, Σ, and V. U and V are orthogonal matrices that represent the left and right singular vectors of A. Σ is a diagonal matrix containing the singular values of A in descending order. SVD can be used to reduce the dimensionality of data by projecting it onto only the first few principal components represented by the top singular vectors in U and V. This provides an interpretation of the data in a lower dimensional space while minimizing reconstruction error.
The document provides an overview of using Markov chains and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for text generation. It discusses:
- How Markov chains can model text by treating sequences of words as "states" and predicting the next word based on conditional probabilities.
- The limitations of Markov chains for complex text generation.
- How RNNs address some limitations by incorporating memory via feedback connections, allowing them to better capture sequential relationships.
- Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, which help combat the "vanishing gradient problem" to better learn long-term dependencies in sequences.
- How LSTMs can be implemented in Python using Keras to generate text character-by-character based on
Shallow and Deep Latent Models for Recommender SystemAnoop Deoras
In this presentation, we survey latent models, starting with shallow and progressing towards deep, as applied to personalization and recommendations. After providing an overview of the Netflix recommender system, we discuss research at the intersection of deep learning, natural language processing and recommender systems and how they relate to traditional collaborative filtering techniques. We will present case studies in the space of deep latent variable models applied to recommender systems.
This document discusses several existing ontologies for modeling restaurant menus and food data on the semantic web:
- Schema.org allows menus to be attached to restaurants as text or URLs but does not link individual menu items. Recipe classes could be used instead.
- RPI has published a Wine ontology and food ontology that could describe menu items. They also held a Food Semantic Web meetup to discuss ontology development.
- LOV includes a vocabulary focused on nutrition characteristics of food.
- Locu is a platform that enables multi-channel dissemination of data for restaurants and similar businesses.
- LinkedFood, from TU Berlin, aims to link food data on the semantic web.
Introduction to Transformers for NLP - Olga PetrovaAlexey Grigorev
Olga Petrova gives an introduction to transformers for natural language processing (NLP). She begins with an overview of representing words using tokenization, word embeddings, and one-hot encodings. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are discussed as they are important for modeling sequential data like text, but they struggle with long-term dependencies. Attention mechanisms were developed to address this by allowing the model to focus on relevant parts of the input. Transformers use self-attention and have achieved state-of-the-art results in many NLP tasks. Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) provides contextualized word embeddings trained on large corpora.
This document discusses deep learning and its applications in the real world. It begins with an introduction to deep learning and then discusses using pre-trained deep learning models for new problems and applications. Some key points discussed include starting from scratch to build a model for a new problem with no existing literature, repurposing pre-trained models for new ideas, and tips for using pre-trained models for mobile applications such as model conversion. Real-life examples of using pre-trained models for new applications like human pose estimation are also provided.
Part of the course "Algorithmic Methods of Data Science". Sapienza University of Rome, 2015.
http://aris.me/index.php/data-mining-ds-2015
https://mcv-m6-video.github.io/deepvideo-2018/
Overview of deep learning solutions for video processing. Part of a series of slides covering topics like action recognition, action detection, object tracking, object detection, scene segmentation, language and learning from videos.
Prepared for the Master in Computer Vision Barcelona:
http://pagines.uab.cat/mcv/
A recommendation system attempts to predict items a user may be interested in, like movies, music or books, to help people find interesting information. For ecommerce, recommendation systems can suggest additional or more expensive items. Common approaches include collaborative filtering based on user preferences, content-based filtering using item descriptions, and hybrid methods. Effective recommendation systems face challenges like data sparsity, scalability, and "shilling" attacks. Major companies report significant sales increases from recommendation features, showing their business value.
This document discusses session-based recommender systems. It begins by explaining why recommender systems are useful given the large number of choices people face online. It then defines recommender systems as tools that find relevant items for users based on feedback. The document outlines different types of feedback and techniques for building recommendations, including matrix factorization, item-to-item recommendations, and recurrent neural networks like GRU4Rec. It concludes by noting that session-based recommender systems are common in practice and the GRU4Rec code is openly available.
Overview of the Recommender system or recommendation system. RFM Concepts in brief. Collaborative Filtering in Item and User based. Content-based Recommendation also described.Product Association Recommender System. Stereotype Recommendation described with advantage and limitations.Customer Lifetime. Recommender System Analysis and Solving Cycle.
Deep Learning for Personalized Search and Recommender SystemsBenjamin Le
Slide deck presented for a tutorial at KDD2017.
https://engineering.linkedin.com/data/publications/kdd-2017/deep-learning-tutorial
At Netflix, we try to provide the best personalized video recommendations to our members. To do this, we need to adapt our recommendations for each contextual situation, which depends on information such as time or device. In this talk, I will describe how state of the art Contextual Recommendations are used at Netflix. A first example of contextual adaptation is the model that powers the Continue Watching row. It uses a feature-based approach with a carefully constructed training set to learn how to adapt to the context of the member. Next, I will dive into more modern approaches such as Tensor Factorization and LSTMs and share some results from deployments of these methods. I will highlight lessons learned and some common pitfalls of using these powerful methods in industrial scale systems. Finally, I will touch upon system reliability, choice of optimization metrics, hidden costs, risks and benefits of using highly adaptive systems.
Recommender Systems represent one of the most widespread and impactful applications of predictive machine learning models.
Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, Facebook and many other companies generate an important fraction of their revenues thanks to their ability to model and accurately predict users ratings and preferences.
In this presentation we cover the following points:
→ introduction to recommender systems
→ working with explicit vs implicit feedback
→ content-based vs collaborative filtering approaches
→ user-based and item-item methods
→ machine learning and deep learning models
→ pros & cons of the methods: scalability, accuracy, explainability
LSH for Prediction Problem in RecommendationMaruf Aytekin
This document discusses using locality sensitive hashing (LSH) for recommendations. It summarizes user-based and item-based collaborative filtering approaches and then describes how LSH works by mapping similar users to the same "buckets". The document evaluates LSH on a movie rating dataset containing 100,000 ratings from 943 users on 1682 items. It finds that while LSH decreases prediction accuracy slightly, it significantly improves the scalability and performance of the recommendation system.
[AFEL] Neighborhood Troubles: On the Value of User Pre-Filtering To Speed Up ...Emanuel Lacić
In this paper, we present work-in-progress on applying user pre-filtering to speed up and enhance recommendations based on Collaborative Filtering. We propose to pre-filter users in order to extracta smaller set of candidate neighbors, who exhibit a high number of overlapping entities and to compute the final user similarities based on this set. To realize this, we exploit features of the high-performance search engine Apache Solr and integrate them into a scalable recommender system. We have evaluated our approach on a dataset gathered from Foursquare and our evaluation results suggest that our proposed user pre-filtering step can help to achieve both a better runtime performance as well as an increase in overall recommendation accuracy.
Context-aware Recommendation: A Quick ViewYONG ZHENG
Context-aware recommendation systems take into account additional contextual information beyond just the user and item, such as time, location, and companion. There are three main approaches: contextual prefiltering splits items or users based on context; contextual modeling directly integrates context into models like matrix factorization; and CARSKit is an open source Java library for building context-aware recommender systems.
This document summarizes an presentation about personalizing artwork selection on Netflix using multi-armed bandit algorithms. Bandit algorithms were applied to choose representative, informative and engaging artwork for each title to maximize member satisfaction and retention. Contextual bandits were used to personalize artwork selection based on member preferences and context. Netflix deployed a system that precomputes personalized artwork using bandit models and caches the results to serve images quickly at scale. The system was able to lift engagement metrics based on A/B tests of the personalized artwork selection models.
These are the slides of my talk at the 2019 Netflix Workshop on Personalization, Recommendation and Search (PRS). This talk is based on previous talks on research we are doing at Spotify, but here I focus on the work we do on personalizing Spotify Home, with respect to success, intent & diversity. The link to the workshop is https://prs2019.splashthat.com/. This is research from various people at Spotify, and has been published at RecSys 2018, CIKM 2018 and WWW (The Web Conference) 2019.
Building Data Pipelines for Music Recommendations at SpotifyVidhya Murali
In this talk, we will get into the architectural and functional details as to how we build scalable and robust data pipelines for music recommendations at Spotify. We will also discuss some of the challenges and an overview of work to address these challenges.
Dimensionality reduction: SVD and its applicationsViet-Trung TRAN
SVD (singular value decomposition) is a technique for dimensionality reduction that decomposes a matrix A into three matrices: U, Σ, and V. U and V are orthogonal matrices that represent the left and right singular vectors of A. Σ is a diagonal matrix containing the singular values of A in descending order. SVD can be used to reduce the dimensionality of data by projecting it onto only the first few principal components represented by the top singular vectors in U and V. This provides an interpretation of the data in a lower dimensional space while minimizing reconstruction error.
The document provides an overview of using Markov chains and recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for text generation. It discusses:
- How Markov chains can model text by treating sequences of words as "states" and predicting the next word based on conditional probabilities.
- The limitations of Markov chains for complex text generation.
- How RNNs address some limitations by incorporating memory via feedback connections, allowing them to better capture sequential relationships.
- Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, which help combat the "vanishing gradient problem" to better learn long-term dependencies in sequences.
- How LSTMs can be implemented in Python using Keras to generate text character-by-character based on
Shallow and Deep Latent Models for Recommender SystemAnoop Deoras
In this presentation, we survey latent models, starting with shallow and progressing towards deep, as applied to personalization and recommendations. After providing an overview of the Netflix recommender system, we discuss research at the intersection of deep learning, natural language processing and recommender systems and how they relate to traditional collaborative filtering techniques. We will present case studies in the space of deep latent variable models applied to recommender systems.
This document discusses several existing ontologies for modeling restaurant menus and food data on the semantic web:
- Schema.org allows menus to be attached to restaurants as text or URLs but does not link individual menu items. Recipe classes could be used instead.
- RPI has published a Wine ontology and food ontology that could describe menu items. They also held a Food Semantic Web meetup to discuss ontology development.
- LOV includes a vocabulary focused on nutrition characteristics of food.
- Locu is a platform that enables multi-channel dissemination of data for restaurants and similar businesses.
- LinkedFood, from TU Berlin, aims to link food data on the semantic web.
Introduction to Transformers for NLP - Olga PetrovaAlexey Grigorev
Olga Petrova gives an introduction to transformers for natural language processing (NLP). She begins with an overview of representing words using tokenization, word embeddings, and one-hot encodings. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are discussed as they are important for modeling sequential data like text, but they struggle with long-term dependencies. Attention mechanisms were developed to address this by allowing the model to focus on relevant parts of the input. Transformers use self-attention and have achieved state-of-the-art results in many NLP tasks. Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) provides contextualized word embeddings trained on large corpora.
This document discusses deep learning and its applications in the real world. It begins with an introduction to deep learning and then discusses using pre-trained deep learning models for new problems and applications. Some key points discussed include starting from scratch to build a model for a new problem with no existing literature, repurposing pre-trained models for new ideas, and tips for using pre-trained models for mobile applications such as model conversion. Real-life examples of using pre-trained models for new applications like human pose estimation are also provided.
Part of the course "Algorithmic Methods of Data Science". Sapienza University of Rome, 2015.
http://aris.me/index.php/data-mining-ds-2015
https://mcv-m6-video.github.io/deepvideo-2018/
Overview of deep learning solutions for video processing. Part of a series of slides covering topics like action recognition, action detection, object tracking, object detection, scene segmentation, language and learning from videos.
Prepared for the Master in Computer Vision Barcelona:
http://pagines.uab.cat/mcv/
A recommendation system attempts to predict items a user may be interested in, like movies, music or books, to help people find interesting information. For ecommerce, recommendation systems can suggest additional or more expensive items. Common approaches include collaborative filtering based on user preferences, content-based filtering using item descriptions, and hybrid methods. Effective recommendation systems face challenges like data sparsity, scalability, and "shilling" attacks. Major companies report significant sales increases from recommendation features, showing their business value.
This document discusses session-based recommender systems. It begins by explaining why recommender systems are useful given the large number of choices people face online. It then defines recommender systems as tools that find relevant items for users based on feedback. The document outlines different types of feedback and techniques for building recommendations, including matrix factorization, item-to-item recommendations, and recurrent neural networks like GRU4Rec. It concludes by noting that session-based recommender systems are common in practice and the GRU4Rec code is openly available.
Overview of the Recommender system or recommendation system. RFM Concepts in brief. Collaborative Filtering in Item and User based. Content-based Recommendation also described.Product Association Recommender System. Stereotype Recommendation described with advantage and limitations.Customer Lifetime. Recommender System Analysis and Solving Cycle.
Deep Learning for Personalized Search and Recommender SystemsBenjamin Le
Slide deck presented for a tutorial at KDD2017.
https://engineering.linkedin.com/data/publications/kdd-2017/deep-learning-tutorial
At Netflix, we try to provide the best personalized video recommendations to our members. To do this, we need to adapt our recommendations for each contextual situation, which depends on information such as time or device. In this talk, I will describe how state of the art Contextual Recommendations are used at Netflix. A first example of contextual adaptation is the model that powers the Continue Watching row. It uses a feature-based approach with a carefully constructed training set to learn how to adapt to the context of the member. Next, I will dive into more modern approaches such as Tensor Factorization and LSTMs and share some results from deployments of these methods. I will highlight lessons learned and some common pitfalls of using these powerful methods in industrial scale systems. Finally, I will touch upon system reliability, choice of optimization metrics, hidden costs, risks and benefits of using highly adaptive systems.
Recommender Systems represent one of the most widespread and impactful applications of predictive machine learning models.
Amazon, YouTube, Netflix, Facebook and many other companies generate an important fraction of their revenues thanks to their ability to model and accurately predict users ratings and preferences.
In this presentation we cover the following points:
→ introduction to recommender systems
→ working with explicit vs implicit feedback
→ content-based vs collaborative filtering approaches
→ user-based and item-item methods
→ machine learning and deep learning models
→ pros & cons of the methods: scalability, accuracy, explainability
LSH for Prediction Problem in RecommendationMaruf Aytekin
This document discusses using locality sensitive hashing (LSH) for recommendations. It summarizes user-based and item-based collaborative filtering approaches and then describes how LSH works by mapping similar users to the same "buckets". The document evaluates LSH on a movie rating dataset containing 100,000 ratings from 943 users on 1682 items. It finds that while LSH decreases prediction accuracy slightly, it significantly improves the scalability and performance of the recommendation system.
[AFEL] Neighborhood Troubles: On the Value of User Pre-Filtering To Speed Up ...Emanuel Lacić
In this paper, we present work-in-progress on applying user pre-filtering to speed up and enhance recommendations based on Collaborative Filtering. We propose to pre-filter users in order to extracta smaller set of candidate neighbors, who exhibit a high number of overlapping entities and to compute the final user similarities based on this set. To realize this, we exploit features of the high-performance search engine Apache Solr and integrate them into a scalable recommender system. We have evaluated our approach on a dataset gathered from Foursquare and our evaluation results suggest that our proposed user pre-filtering step can help to achieve both a better runtime performance as well as an increase in overall recommendation accuracy.
Models for Information Retrieval and RecommendationArjen de Vries
Online information services personalize the user experience by applying recommendation systems to identify the information that is most relevant to the user. The question how to estimate relevance has been the core concept in the field of information retrieval for many years. Not so surprisingly then, it turns out that the methods used in online recommendation systems are closely related to the models developed in the information retrieval area. In this lecture, I present a unified approach to information retrieval and collaborative filtering, and demonstrate how this let’s us turn a standard information retrieval system into a state-of-the-art recommendation system.
basic Function and Terminology of Recommendation Systems. Some Algorithmic Implementation with some sample Dataset for Understanding. It contains all the Layers of RS Framework well explained.
Incremental collaborative filtering via evolutionary co clusteringAllen Wu
This document summarizes an incremental collaborative filtering approach via evolutionary co-clustering. It introduces incremental collaborative filtering and discusses existing approaches. It then proposes an incremental evolutionary co-clustering method that assigns new users and items to clusters during the online phase to make more accurate predictions. The method uses an ensemble of co-clustering solutions and an evolutionary algorithm to improve performance. Experimental results on a movie rating dataset show the proposed approach achieves better accuracy than other incremental collaborative filtering methods.
Paper Study - Demand-Driven Computation of Interprocedural Data FlowMin-Yih Hsu
This paper presents a demand-driven approach to inter-procedural data flow analysis that avoids generating redundant analysis results by only computing the necessary data flow facts needed to answer specific queries. The algorithm performs a reverse data flow analysis starting from the query point using a reverse flow function. This approach can answer queries more efficiently than traditional exhaustive data flow analysis.
The Evolution of Streaming Expressions - Joel Bernstein, Alfresco & Dennis Go...Lucidworks
The document discusses Solr streams and expressions, which provide a stream processing language for Solr. Streaming expressions allow users to describe data pipelines with functions that perform actions over document tuples. The document also covers stream evaluators, which enable calculating new values, conditional logic, and adding values to documents. Finally, it discusses using Solr for statistical programming through mathematical and statistical functions operating over data streams.
[WI 2014]Context Recommendation Using Multi-label ClassificationYONG ZHENG
This document proposes a new type of recommender system called a context recommender that recommends appropriate contexts (e.g. time, location, companion) for users to consume items. It discusses how context recommenders are different than traditional and context-aware recommenders. It also presents the framework for context recommenders including algorithms using multi-label classification to directly predict contexts. The document reports on experiments comparing these algorithms on several datasets and finds that personalized algorithms outperform non-personalized ones and that certain multi-label classification algorithms like label powerset using support vector machines achieve the best performance.
Music Recommendations at Scale with SparkChris Johnson
Spotify uses a range of Machine Learning models to power its music recommendation features including the Discover page, Radio, and Related Artists. Due to the iterative nature of these models they are a natural fit to the Spark computation paradigm and suffer from the IO overhead incurred by Hadoop. In this talk, I review the ALS algorithm for Matrix Factorization with implicit feedback data and how we’ve scaled it up to handle 100s of Billions of data points using Scala, Breeze, and Spark.
This document provides an overview of recommendation systems and collaborative filtering algorithms. It describes memory-based and model-based collaborative filtering, including user-based and item-based approaches. Challenges with recommendation systems like data sparsity and scalability are also discussed. The document demonstrates collaborative filtering using the Mahout library on Movielens data and outlines future work on improving scalability and developing real-time recommendations.
Tutorial: Context In Recommender SystemsYONG ZHENG
This document provides an overview of a tutorial on context-aware recommender systems. The tutorial will cover traditional recommendation techniques, context-aware recommendation which incorporates additional contextual information such as time and location, and context suggestion. It includes an agenda with topics, background information on recommender systems and evaluation metrics, and descriptions of techniques for context-aware recommendation including context filtering and modeling.
Recommender systems are software tools and techniques providing suggestions for items to be of interest to a user. Recommender systems have proved in recent years to be a valuable means of helping Web users by providing useful and effective recommendations or suggestions.
This document summarizes some of the key topics and presentations from the Recsys 2018 conference. It discusses the growing popularity of deep learning and reinforcement learning in recommender systems. It provides an overview of Netflix's use of reinforcement learning for artwork recommendations. It also summarizes several papers presented at the conference, including ones on calibrated recommendations, reciprocal recommenders, the Recsys challenge on playlist continuation, and evaluating metrics for top-N recommendations. Finally, it discusses some mixed methods approaches and tutorials presented at the conference.
Keynote of HOP-Rec @ RecSys 2018
Presenter: Jheng-Hong Yang
These slides aim to be a complementary material for the short paper: HOP-Rec @ RecSys18. It explains the intuition and some abstract idea behind the descriptions and mathematical symbols by illustrating some plots and figures.
The World Wide Web is moving from a Web of hyper-linked documents to a Web of linked data. Thanks to the Semantic Web technological stack and to the more recent Linked Open Data (LOD) initiative, a vast amount of RDF data have been published in freely accessible datasets connected with each other to form the so called LOD cloud. As of today, we have tons of RDF data available in the Web of Data, but only a few applications really exploit their potential power. The availability of such data is for sure an opportunity to feed personalized information access tools such as recommender systems. We will show how to plug Linked Open Data in a recommendation engine in order to build a new generation of LOD-enabled applications.
(Lecture given @ the 11th Reasoning Web Summer School - Berlin - August 1, 2015)
This document discusses machine learning techniques for recommendations and clustering using Mahout. It begins with an introduction of the speaker and agenda. It then covers recommendations analysis using co-occurrence matrices and discusses using cross-occurrence matrices to recommend related items. It also discusses techniques for fast, scalable clustering including using surrogates and sketches to approximate data and speed up computations. Finally, it discusses parallelizing the algorithms and provides evaluation results for clustering quality.
A new similarity measurement based on hellinger distance for collaborating fi...Prabhu Kumar
This project proposed a similarity measurement which is focusing on recommendation performance under the cold start problem [The problem which occurs in the recommendation for newly comer items and users, which doesn't have any recognition in the system] and also perfectly suitable for sparse data set.
This technique solves the problem of the cold start in recommender system as well as improves the performance of recommendation to the users.
Two strategies for large-scale multi-label classification on the YouTube-8M d...Dalei Li
The project to participate in the Kaggle YouTube-8M video understanding competition. Four algorithms that can be run on a single machine are implemented, namely, multi-label k-nearest neighbor, multi-label radial basis function network (one-vs-rest), and multi-label logistic regression and on-vs-rest multi-layer neural network.
The document discusses several collaborative filtering techniques for making recommendations, including k-nearest neighbors (kNN), naive Bayes classification, singular value decomposition (SVD), and probabilistic models. It provides examples of how these methods work, such as using ratings from similar users to predict a user's rating for an item (kNN), and decomposing a ratings matrix to capture relationships between users and items (SVD). The techniques vary in their assumptions, complexity, and ability to incorporate additional user/item metadata. Evaluation on new data is important to ensure the methods generalize well beyond the training data.
This research is oriented towards exploring mode-wise corridor level travel-time estimation using Machine learning techniques such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM). Authors have considered buses (equipped with in-vehicle GPS) as the probe vehicles and attempted to calculate the travel-time of other modes such as cars along a stretch of arterial roads. The proposed study considers various influential factors that affect travel time such as road geometry, traffic parameters, location information from the GPS receiver and other spatiotemporal parameters that affect the travel-time. The study used a segment modeling method for segregating the data based on identified bus stop locations. A k-fold cross-validation technique was used for determining the optimum model parameters to be used in the ANN and SVM models. The developed models were tested on a study corridor of 59.48 km stretch in Mumbai, India. The data for this study were collected for a period of five days (Monday-Friday) during the morning peak period (from 8.00 am to 11.00 am). Evaluation scores such as MAPE (mean absolute percentage error), MAD (mean absolute deviation) and RMSE (root mean square error) were used for testing the performance of the models. The MAPE values for ANN and SVM models are 11.65 and 10.78 respectively. The developed model is further statistically validated using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test. The results obtained from these tests proved that the proposed model is statistically valid.
Cloud Platform Architecture over Virtualized Datacenters: Cloud Computing and
Service Models, Data Center Design and Interconnection Networks, Architectural Design of Compute and Storage Clouds, Public Cloud Platforms: GAE, AWS and Azure, Inter-Cloud
Resource Management.
Dear SICPA Team,
Please find attached a document outlining my professional background and experience.
I remain at your disposal should you have any questions or require further information.
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Design of Variable Depth Single-Span Post.pdfKamel Farid
Hunched Single Span Bridge: -
(HSSBs) have maximum depth at ends and minimum depth at midspan.
Used for long-span river crossings or highway overpasses when:
Aesthetically pleasing shape is required or
Vertical clearance needs to be maximized
PRIZ Academy - Functional Modeling In Action with PRIZ.pdfPRIZ Guru
This PRIZ Academy deck walks you step-by-step through Functional Modeling in Action, showing how Subject-Action-Object (SAO) analysis pinpoints critical functions, ranks harmful interactions, and guides fast, focused improvements. You’ll see:
Core SAO concepts and scoring logic
A wafer-breakage case study that turns theory into practice
A live PRIZ Platform demo that builds the model in minutes
Ideal for engineers, QA managers, and innovation leads who need clearer system insight and faster root-cause fixes. Dive in, map functions, and start improving what really matters.
Introduction to ANN, McCulloch Pitts Neuron, Perceptron and its Learning
Algorithm, Sigmoid Neuron, Activation Functions: Tanh, ReLu Multi- layer Perceptron
Model – Introduction, learning parameters: Weight and Bias, Loss function: Mean
Square Error, Back Propagation Learning Convolutional Neural Network, Building
blocks of CNN, Transfer Learning, R-CNN,Auto encoders, LSTM Networks, Recent
Trends in Deep Learning.
How to Buy Snapchat Account A Step-by-Step Guide.pdfjamedlimmk
Scaling Growth with Multiple Snapchat Accounts: Strategies That Work
Operating multiple Snapchat accounts isn’t just a matter of logging in and out—it’s about crafting a scalable content strategy. Businesses and influencers who master this can turn Snapchat into a lead generation engine.
Key strategies include:
Content Calendars for Each Account – Plan distinct content buckets and themes per account to avoid duplication and maintain variety.
Geo-Based Content Segmentation – Use location-specific filters and cultural trends to speak directly to a region's audience.
Audience Mapping – Tailor messaging for niche segments: Gen Z, urban youth, gamers, shoppers, etc.
Metrics-Driven Storytelling – Use Snapchat Insights to monitor what type of content performs best per account.
Each account should have a unique identity but tie back to a central brand voice. This balance is crucial for brand consistency while leveraging the platform’s creative freedoms.
How Agencies and Creators Handle Bulk Snapchat Accounts
Digital agencies and creator networks often manage dozens—sometimes hundreds—of Snapchat accounts. The infrastructure to support this requires:
Dedicated teams for each cluster of accounts
Cloud-based mobile device management (MDM) systems
Permission-based account access for role clarity
Workflow automation tools (Slack, Trello, Notion) for content coordination
This is especially useful in verticals such as music promotion, event marketing, lifestyle brands, and political outreach, where each campaign needs targeted messaging from different handles.
The Legality and Risk Profile of Bulk Account Operations
If your aim is to operate or acquire multiple Snapchat accounts, understand the risk thresholds:
Personal Use (Low Risk) – One or two accounts for personal and creative projects
Business Use (Medium Risk) – Accounts with aligned goals, managed ethically
Automated Bulk Use (High Risk) – Accounts created en masse or used via bots are flagged quickly
Snapchat uses advanced machine learning detection for unusual behavior, including:
Fast switching between accounts from the same IP
Identical Snap stories across accounts
Rapid follower accumulation
Use of unverified devices or outdated OS versions
To stay compliant, use manual operations, vary behavior, and avoid gray-market account providers.
Smart Monetization Through Multi-Account Snapchat Strategies
With a multi-account setup, you can open doors to diversified monetization:
Affiliate Marketing – Niche accounts promoting targeted offers
Sponsored Content – Brands paying for story placement across multiple profiles
Product Launch Funnels – Segment users by interest and lead them to specific landing pages
Influencer Takeovers – Hosting creators across multiple themed accounts for event buzz
This turns your Snapchat network into a ROI-driven asset instead of a time sink.
Conclusion: Build an Ecosystem, Not Just Accounts
When approached correctly, multiple Snapchat accounts bec
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2. Outline
• Introduction
• Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Scalability Problem
• Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) for Recommendation
• Improvement for LSH methods
• Preliminary Results
• Work Plan
3. Recommender Systems
•Recommender systems
•Applied to various domains:
•Book/movie/news recommendations
•Contextual advertising
•Search engine personalization
•Matchmaking
•Two type of problems:
• Preference elicitation (prediction)
• Set-based recommendations (top-N)
5. Neighborhood-based
Methods
The idea: Similar users behave in a similar way.
• User-based: rely on the opinion of like-minded users to
predict a rating.
• Item-based: look at rating given to similar items.
Require computation of similarity weights to select
trusted neighbors whose ratings are used in the
prediction.
6. Neighborhood-based
Methods
Problem
• Compare all users/items to find trusted neighbors
(k-nearest-neighbors)
• Not scale well with data size (# of users/items)
Computational Complexity
Space Model Build Query
User-based O(m2) O(m2n) O(m)
Item-based O(n2) O(n2m) O(n)
m : number of users
n : number of items
8. Locality Sensitive Hashing
(LSH)
• ANN search method
• Provides a way to eliminate searching all of the data to
find the nearest neighbors
• Finds the nearest neighbors fast in basic
neighbourhood based methods.
9. Locality Sensitive Hashing
(LSH)
General approach:
• “Hash” items several times, in such a way that similar
items are more likely to be hashed to the same
bucket than dissimilar items are.
• Pairs hashed to the same bucket candidate pairs.
• Check only the candidate pairs for similarity.
10.
Locality-Sensitive Functions
The function h will “hash” items, and the decision will be
based on whether or not the result is equal.
• h(x) = h(y) make x and y a candidate pair.
• h(x) ≠ h(y) do not make x and y a candidate pair.
g = h1 AND h2 AND h3 …
or
g = h1 OR h2 OR h3 …
A collection of functions of this form will be called a family of
functions.
11. LSH for Cosine
Charikar defines family of functions for Cosine as follows:
Let u and v be rating vectors and r is a random generated vector
whose components are +1 and −1.
The family of hash functions (H) generated:
, where
shows the probability of u and v being declared as a candidate pair.
17. UB-KNN-LSH IB-KNN-LSH
• find candidate set, C, for target
user, u, with LSH.
• find k-nearest-neighbors to u
from C that have rated on i.
• use k-nearest-neighbors to
generate a prediction for u on i.
• find candidate set, C, for target
item, i, with LSH.
• find k-nearest-neighbors to i
from C which user u rated on.
• use k-nearest-neighbors to
generate a prediction for u on
item i.
LSH MethodsPrediction
18. UB-LSH1 IB-LSH1
• find candidate users list, Cl, for
u who rated on i with LSH.
• calculate frequency of each
user in Cl who rated on i.
• sort candidate users based on
frequency and get top k users
• use frequency as weight to
predict rating for u on i with
user-based prediction.
• find candidate items list, Cl, for i
with LSH.
• calculate frequency of items in
Cl which is rated by u.
• sort candidate items based on
frequency and get top k items.
• use frequency as weight to
predict rating for u on i with item
based prediction.
LSH MethodsPrediction
19. ImprovementPrediction
UB-LSH2 IB-LSH2
• find candidate users list, Cl, for
u who rated on i with LSH.
• select k users from Cl randomly.
• predict rating for u on i with
user-based prediction as the
average ratings of k users.
• find candidate items list, Cl, for i
with LSH.
• select k items rated by u from Cl
randomly.
• predict rating for u on i with
item-based prediction as the
average ratings of k items.
- Eliminate frequency calculation and sorting.
- Frequent users or items in Cl have higher chance to be selected randomly.
20. Complexity
Prediction
Space Model Build Prediction
User-based O(m) O(m2) O(mn)
Item-based O(n) O(n2) O(mn)
UB-KNN-LSH O(mL) O(mLKt) O(L+|C|n+k)
IB-KNN-LSH O(nL) O(nLKt) O(L+|C|m+k)
UB-LSH1 O(mL) O(mLKt) O(L+|Cl|+|Cl|lg(|Cl|)+k)
IB-LSH1 O(nL) O(nLKt) O(L+|Cl|+|Cl|lg(|Cl|)+k)
UB-LSH2 O(mL) O(mLKt) O(L+2k)
IB-LSH2 O(nL) O(nLKt) O(L+2k)
m : number of users
n : number of items
L: number of hash tables
K : number of hash functions
t : time to evaluate a hash function
C: Candidate user (or item) set ( |C| ≤ Lm / 2K or |C| ≤ Ln / 2K )
Cl : Candidate user (or item) list ( | Cl | ≤ Lm / 2K or | Cl | ≤ Ln / 2K )
21. | Cl | ≤ Lm / 2K
L = 5
m =16,042
Candidate List (Cl)
Prediction
0
10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
NumberofUsers
Number of Hash Functions
Cl
m
| Cl | ≤ Ln / 2K
L = 5
n =17,454
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10000
20000
30000
40000
50000
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Cl
n
30. UB-LSH1 IB-LSH1
• find candidate set, C, for user u
with LSH.
• for each user, v, in C; retrieve
items that rated by v and add
to a running candidate list, Cl.
• calculate frequency of items in
Cl.
• sort Cl based on frequency.
• recommend the most frequent
N items to u.
• for each item, i, u rated; retrieve
candidate set, C, for i with LSH
and add C to a running
candidate list, Cl.
• calculate frequency of items in
Cl.
• sort Cl based on frequency.
• recommend the most frequent N
items to u.
LSH MethodsTop-N Recommendation
31. Improvement
Top-N Recommendation
UB-LSH2 IB-LSH2
• find candidate set, C, for user
u with LSH.
• for each user, v, in C; retrieve
items that rated by v and add
to a running candidate list, Cl.
• select N items from Cl randomly
and recommend to u.
• for each item, i, u rated; retrieve
candidate set, C, for i with LSH
and add to a running candidate
list, Cl.
• select N items from Cl randomly
and recommend to u.
Eliminates frequency calculation and sorting.
32. Complexity
Top-N Recommendation
Space Model Build Top-N Recommendation
User-based O(m) O(m2) O(mn)
Item-based O(n) O(n2) O(mn)
UB-LSH1 O(mL) O(mLKt) O(L+|C|+|Cl|+|Cl|lg(|Cl|)
IB-LSH1 O(nL) O(nLKt) O(pL+|Cl|+|Cl|lg(|Cl|))
UB-LSH2 O(mL) O(mLKt) O(L+|C|+N)
IB-LSH2 O(nL) O(nLKt) O(pL+N)
m : number of users
n : number of items
p : number of ratings of a user
L : number of hash tables
K : number of hash functions
t : time to evaluate a hash function
C : Candidate user (or item) set ( |C| ≤ Lm / 2K or |C| ≤ Ln / 2K)
Cl : Candidate item list ( |Cl| ≤ p|C| for UB-LSH1 and IB-LSH1 s.t. |Cl| ≤ Lpn / 2K )
33. |Cl| ≤ Lpn / 2K )
L = 5
n =1000
p = 100 (avg. number of ratings for a user)
Candidate List (Cl)
Top-N Recommendation
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
NumberofItems
Number of Hash Functions
min Cl
max Cl
n
40. • LSH as a real-time stream recommendation algorithm
• Dimensionality reduction methods (e.g., Matrix
Factorization)
• Other ANN Methods:
• Tree based
• Clustering based
Work Plan