Baseline

Baseline for recommender systems.

A first-order approximation of the bias involved in target. The model equation is defined as:

\[\hat{y}(x) = \bar{y} + bu_{u} + bi_{i}\]

Where \(bu_{u}\) and \(bi_{i}\) are respectively the user and item biases.

This model expects a dict input with a user and an item entries without any type constraint on their values (i.e. can be strings or numbers). Other entries are ignored.

Parameters

• optimizer (optim.base.Optimizer) – defaults to None

  The sequential optimizer used for updating the weights.

• loss (optim.base.Loss) – defaults to None

  The loss function to optimize for.

• l2 – defaults to 0.0

  regularization amount used to push weights towards 0.

• initializer (optim.base.Initializer) – defaults to None

  Weights initialization scheme.

• clip_gradient – defaults to 1000000000000.0

  Clips the absolute value of each gradient value.

• seed – defaults to None

  Random number generation seed. Set this for reproducibility.

Attributes

• global_mean (stats.Mean)

  The target arithmetic mean.

• u_biases (collections.defaultdict)

  The user bias weights.

• i_biases (collections.defaultdict)

  The item bias weights.

• u_optimizer (optim.base.Optimizer)

  The sequential optimizer used for updating the user bias weights.

• i_optimizer (optim.base.Optimizer)

  The sequential optimizer used for updating the item bias weights.

Examples

>>> from river import optim
>>> from river import reco

>>> dataset = (
...     ({'user': 'Alice', 'item': 'Superman'}, 8),
...     ({'user': 'Alice', 'item': 'Terminator'}, 9),
...     ({'user': 'Alice', 'item': 'Star Wars'}, 8),
...     ({'user': 'Alice', 'item': 'Notting Hill'}, 2),
...     ({'user': 'Alice', 'item': 'Harry Potter'}, 5),
...     ({'user': 'Bob', 'item': 'Superman'}, 8),
...     ({'user': 'Bob', 'item': 'Terminator'}, 9),
...     ({'user': 'Bob', 'item': 'Star Wars'}, 8),
...     ({'user': 'Bob', 'item': 'Notting Hill'}, 2)
... )

>>> model = reco.Baseline(optimizer=optim.SGD(0.005))

>>> for x, y in dataset:
...     _ = model.learn_one(**x, y=y)

>>> model.predict_one(user='Bob', item='Harry Potter')
6.538120

Methods

clone

Return a fresh estimator with the same parameters.

The clone has the same parameters but has not been updated with any data. This works by looking at the parameters from the class signature. Each parameter is either - recursively cloned if it's a River classes. - deep-copied via copy.deepcopy if not. If the calling object is stochastic (i.e. it accepts a seed parameter) and has not been seeded, then the clone will not be idempotent. Indeed, this method's purpose if simply to return a new instance with the same input parameters.

learn_one

Fits a user-item pair and a real-valued target y.

Parameters

• user (Union[str, int])
• item (Union[str, int])
• y (Union[numbers.Number, bool])
• x (dict) – defaults to None

predict_one

Predicts the target value of a set of features x.

Parameters

• user (Union[str, int])
• item (Union[str, int])
• x (dict) – defaults to None

Returns

typing.Union[numbers.Number, bool]: The predicted preference from the user for the item.

rank

Rank models by decreasing order of preference for a given user.

Parameters

• user (Union[str, int])
• items (Set[Union[str, int]])
• x (dict) – defaults to None

References

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1. Matrix factorization techniques for recommender systems ↩