mlpack_cf(1)

NAME
mlpack_cf - collaborative filtering

SYNOPSIS
 mlpack_cf [-a string] [-A bool] [-m unknown] [-i string] [-I bool] [-N int] [-r double] [-S string] [-n int] [-z string] [-q string] [-R int] [-c int] [-s int] [-T string] [-t string] [-V bool] [-o string] [-M unknown] [-h -v]

DESCRIPTION
This program performs collaborative filtering (CF) on the given dataset. Given a list of user, item and preferences (the '--training_file (-t)' parameter), the program will perform a matrix decomposition and then can perform a series of actions related to collaborative filtering. Alternately, the program can load an existing saved CF model with the '--input_model_file (-m)' parameter and then use that model to provide recommendations or predict values.

The input matrix should be a 3-dimensional matrix of ratings, where the first dimension is the user, the second dimension is the item, and the third dimension is that user's rating of that item. Both the users and items should be numeric indices, not names. The indices are assumed to start from 0.

A set of query users for which recommendations can be generated may be specified with the '--query_file (-q)' parameter; alternately, recommendations may be generated for every user in the dataset by specifying the ’--all_user_recommendations (-A)' parameter. In addition, the number of recommendations per user to generate can be specified with the ’--recommendations (-c)' parameter, and the number of similar users (the size of the neighborhood) to be considered when generating recommendations can be specified with the '--neighborhood (-n)' parameter.

For performing the matrix decomposition, the following optimization algorithms can be specified via the '--algorithm (-a)' parameter:

    •   ’RegSVD' -- Regularized SVD using a SGD optimizer

    •   ’NMF' -- Non-negative matrix factorization with alternating least squares update rules

    •   ’BatchSVD' -- SVD batch learning

    •   ’SVDIncompleteIncremental' -- SVD incomplete incremental learning

    •   ’SVDCompleteIncremental' -- SVD complete incremental learning

    •   ’BiasSVD' -- Bias SVD using a SGD optimizer

    •   ’SVDPP' -- SVD++ using a SGD optimizer

    The following neighbor search algorithms can be specified via the ’--neighbor_search (-S)' parameter:

        •   ’cosine' -- Cosine Search Algorithm

        •   ’euclidean' -- Euclidean Search Algorithm

        •   ’pearson' -- Pearson Search Algorithm

    The following weight interpolation algorithms can be specified via the ’--interpolation (-i)' parameter:

        •   ’average' -- Average Interpolation Algorithm

        •   ’regression' -- Regression Interpolation Algorithm

        •   ’similarity' -- Similarity Interpolation Algorithm

    The following ranking normalization algorithms can be specified via the ’--normalization (-z)' parameter:

        •   ’none' -- No Normalization

        •   ’item_mean' -- Item Mean Normalization

        •   ’overall_mean' -- Overall Mean Normalization

        •   ’user_mean' -- User Mean Normalization

        •   ’z_score' -- Z-Score Normalization

    A trained model may be saved to with the '--output_model_file (-M)' output parameter.

    To train a CF model on a dataset 'training_set.csv' using NMF for decomposition and saving the trained model to 'model.bin', one could call:

    $ mlpack_cf --training_file training_set.csv --algorithm NMF --output_model_file model.bin

    Then, to use this model to generate recommendations for the list of users in the query set 'users.csv', storing 5 recommendations in 'recommendations.csv', one could call

    $ mlpack_cf --input_model_file model.bin --query_file users.csv --recommendations 5 --output_file recommendations.csv

OPTIONAL INPUT OPTIONS

--algorithm (-a) [string]
    Algorithm used for matrix factorization. Default value 'NMF'.

--all_user_recommendations (-A) [bool]
    Generate recommendations for all users.

--help (-h) [bool]
    Default help info.

--info [string]
    Print help on a specific option. Default value ''.

--input_model_file (-m) [unknown]
    Trained CF model to load.

--interpolation (-i) [string]
    Algorithm used for weight interpolation. Default value 'average'.

--iteration_only_termination (-I) [bool]
    Terminate only when the maximum number of iterations is reached.

--max_iterations (-N) [int]
    Maximum number of iterations. If set to zero, there is no limit on the number of iterations. Default value 1000.

--min_residue (-r) [double]
    Residue required to terminate the factorization (lower values generally mean better fits). Default value 1e-05.

--neighbor_search (-S) [string]
    Algorithm used for neighbor search. Default value 'euclidean'.

--neighborhood (-n) [int]
    Size of the neighborhood of similar users to consider for each query user. Default value 5.

--normalization (-z) [string]
    Normalization performed on the ratings. Default value 'none'.

--query_file (-q) [string]
    List of query users for which recommendations should be generated.

--rank (-R) [int]
    Rank of decomposed matrices (if 0, a heuristic is used to estimate the rank). Default value 0. --recommendations (-c) [int] Number of recommendations to generate for each query user. Default value 5.

--seed (-s) [int]
    Set the random seed (0 uses std::time(NULL)). Default value 0.

--test_file (-T) [string]
    Test set to calculate RMSE on.

--training_file (-t) [string]
    Input dataset to perform CF on.

--verbose (-v) [bool]
    Display informational messages and the full list of parameters and timers at the end of execution.

--version (-V) [bool]
    Display the version of mlpack.

OPTIONAL OUTPUT OPTIONS

--output_file (-o) [string]
    Matrix that will store output recommendations.

--output_model_file (-M) [unknown]
    Output for trained CF model.nnADDITIONAL INFORMATIONNN FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, INCLUDING RELEVANT PAPERS, CITATIONS, AND THEORY, consult the documentation found at http://www.mlpack.org or included with your distribution of mlpack.