BPRMF_UserMapping Class Reference

User attribute to latent factor mapping for BPR-MF, optimized for RMSE on the latent factors. More...

Inheritance diagram for BPRMF_UserMapping:
BPRMF_Mapping IUserAttributeAwareRecommender BPRMF IRecommender MF IncrementalItemRecommender IIterativeModel ItemRecommender IIncrementalItemRecommender IRecommender IRecommender BPRMF_UserMapping_Optimal

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

override void AddFeedback (int user_id, int item_id)
 Add a positive feedback event and perform incremental training.
virtual bool CanPredict (int user_id, int item_id)
 Check whether a useful prediction (i.e. not using a fallback/default answer) can be made for a given user-item combination.
Object Clone ()
 create a shallow copy of the object
override float ComputeObjective ()
 Compute the current optimization objective (usually loss plus regularization term) of the model.
override void Iterate ()
 Perform one iteration of stochastic gradient ascent over the training data.
override void IterateMapping ()
 Perform one iteration of the mapping training.
override void LearnAttributeToFactorMapping ()
 Learn the mapping.
override void LoadModel (string file)
 Get the model parameters from a file.
override float Predict (int user_id, int item_id)
 Predict rating or score for a given user-item combination.
override void RemoveFeedback (int user_id, int item_id)
 Remove all feedback events by the given user-item combination.
override void RemoveItem (int item_id)
 Remove all feedback by one item.
override void RemoveUser (int user_id)
 Remove all feedback by one user.
override void SaveModel (string file)
 Save the model parameters to a file.
override string ToString ()
 Return a string representation of the recommender.
override void Train ()
 Learn the model parameters of the recommender from the training data.

Protected Member Functions

override void AddItem (int item_id)
override void AddUser (int user_id)
void CheckSampling ()
double[] ComputeMappingFit ()
override void InitModel ()
virtual double[] MapUserToLatentFactorSpace (ICollection< int > user_attributes)
 map from user attributes to latent factor space
virtual void RetrainItem (int item_id)
 Retrain the latent factors of a given item.
virtual void RetrainUser (int user_id)
 Retrain the latent factors of a given user.
virtual void SampleItemPair (int u, out int i, out int j)
 Sample a pair of items, given a user.
virtual bool SampleOtherItem (int u, int i, out int j)
 Sample another item, given the first one and the user.
virtual void SampleTriple (out int u, out int i, out int j)
 Sample a triple for BPR learning.
virtual int SampleUser ()
 Sample a user that has viewed at least one and not all items.
int SampleUserWithAttributes ()
 Samples an user for the mapping training. Only users that are associated with at least one item, and that actually have attributes, are taken into account.
virtual void UpdateFactors (int u, int i, int j, bool update_u, bool update_i, bool update_j)
 Update latent factors according to the stochastic gradient descent update rule.

Protected Attributes

Matrix< float > attribute_to_factor
 The matrix representing the attribute-to-factor mapping.
bool fast_sampling = false
 Fast, but memory-intensive sampling.
int fast_sampling_memory_limit = 1024
 Fast sampling memory limit, in MiB.
float[] item_bias
 Item bias terms.
Matrix< float > item_factors
 Latent item factor matrix.
double last_loss = double.NegativeInfinity
 Loss for the last iteration, used by bold driver heuristics.
float learn_rate = 0.05f
 Learning rate alpha.
double learn_rate_mapping = 0.01
 The learn rate for training the mapping functions.
int num_factors = 10
 Number of latent factors per user/item.
int num_init_mapping = 5
 number of times the regression is computed (to avoid local minima)
int num_iter_mapping = 10
 number of iterations of the mapping training procedure
System.Random random
 Random number generator.
float reg_i = 0.0025f
 Regularization parameter for positive item factors.
float reg_j = 0.00025f
 Regularization parameter for negative item factors.
double reg_mapping = 0.1
 regularization constant for the mapping
float reg_u = 0.0025f
 Regularization parameter for user factors.
bool update_j = true
 If set (default), update factors for negative sampled items during learning.
SparseBooleanMatrix user_attributes
 The matrix storing the user attributes.
Matrix< float > user_factors
 Latent user factor matrix.
IList< IList< int > > user_neg_items
 support data structure for fast sampling
IList< IList< int > > user_pos_items
 support data structure for fast sampling

Properties

float BiasReg [get, set]
 Regularization parameter for the bias term.
bool BoldDriver [get, set]
 Use bold driver heuristics for learning rate adaption.
int FastSamplingMemoryLimit [get, set]
 Fast sampling memory limit, in MiB.
virtual IPosOnlyFeedback Feedback [get, set]
 the feedback data to be used for training
double InitMean [get, set]
 Mean of the normal distribution used to initialize the latent factors.
double InitStdDev [get, set]
 Standard deviation of the normal distribution used to initialize the latent factors.
float LearnRate [get, set]
 Learning rate alpha.
double LearnRateMapping [get, set]
 The learn rate for training the mapping functions.
int MaxItemID [get, set]
 Maximum item ID.
int MaxUserID [get, set]
 Maximum user ID.
uint NumFactors [get, set]
 Number of latent factors per user/item.
int NumInitMapping [get, set]
 number of times the regression is computed (to avoid local minima)
uint NumIter [get, set]
 Number of iterations over the training data.
int NumIterMapping [get, set]
 number of iterations of the mapping training procedure
int NumUserAttributes [get, set]
float RegI [get, set]
 Regularization parameter for positive item factors.
float RegJ [get, set]
 Regularization parameter for negative item factors.
double RegMapping [get, set]
 regularization constant for the mapping
float RegU [get, set]
 Regularization parameter for user factors.
bool UniformUserSampling [get, set]
 Sample uniformly from users.
bool UpdateJ [get, set]
 If set (default), update factors for negative sampled items during learning.
SparseBooleanMatrix UserAttributes [get, set]
bool WithReplacement [get, set]
 Sample positive observations with (true) or without (false) replacement.

Detailed Description

User attribute to latent factor mapping for BPR-MF, optimized for RMSE on the latent factors.

Literature:

This recommender does NOT support incremental updates.


Member Function Documentation

override void AddFeedback ( int  user_id,
int  item_id 
) [inline, virtual, inherited]

Add a positive feedback event and perform incremental training.

Parameters:
user_id the user ID
item_id the item ID

Reimplemented from IncrementalItemRecommender.

virtual bool CanPredict ( int  user_id,
int  item_id 
) [inline, virtual, inherited]

Check whether a useful prediction (i.e. not using a fallback/default answer) can be made for a given user-item combination.

It is up to the recommender implementor to decide when a prediction is useful, and to document it accordingly.

Parameters:
user_id the user ID
item_id the item ID
Returns:
true if a useful prediction can be made, false otherwise

Implements IRecommender.

Object Clone (  )  [inline, inherited]

create a shallow copy of the object

override float ComputeObjective (  )  [inline, virtual, inherited]

Compute the current optimization objective (usually loss plus regularization term) of the model.

Returns:
the current objective; -1 if not implemented

Implements MF.

Reimplemented in SoftMarginRankingMF.

override void Iterate (  )  [inline, virtual, inherited]

Perform one iteration of stochastic gradient ascent over the training data.

One iteration is samples number of positive entries in the training matrix times

Implements MF.

Reimplemented in MultiCoreBPRMF.

override void IterateMapping (  )  [inline, virtual]

Perform one iteration of the mapping training.

Implements BPRMF_Mapping.

Reimplemented in BPRMF_UserMapping_Optimal.

override void LearnAttributeToFactorMapping (  )  [inline, virtual]

Learn the mapping.

Implements BPRMF_Mapping.

Reimplemented in BPRMF_UserMapping_Optimal.

override void LoadModel ( string  filename  )  [inline, virtual, inherited]

Get the model parameters from a file.

Parameters:
filename the name of the file to read from

Reimplemented from MF.

virtual double [] MapUserToLatentFactorSpace ( ICollection< int >  user_attributes  )  [inline, protected, virtual]

map from user attributes to latent factor space

Reimplemented in BPRMF_UserMapping_Optimal.

override float Predict ( int  user_id,
int  item_id 
) [inline]

Predict rating or score for a given user-item combination.

Parameters:
user_id the user ID
item_id the item ID
Returns:
the predicted score/rating for the given user-item combination

Implements IRecommender.

override void RemoveFeedback ( int  user_id,
int  item_id 
) [inline, virtual, inherited]

Remove all feedback events by the given user-item combination.

Parameters:
user_id the user ID
item_id the item ID

Reimplemented from IncrementalItemRecommender.

override void RemoveItem ( int  item_id  )  [inline, virtual, inherited]

Remove all feedback by one item.

Parameters:
item_id the item ID

Reimplemented from IncrementalItemRecommender.

override void RemoveUser ( int  user_id  )  [inline, virtual, inherited]

Remove all feedback by one user.

Parameters:
user_id the user ID

Reimplemented from IncrementalItemRecommender.

virtual void RetrainItem ( int  item_id  )  [inline, protected, virtual, inherited]

Retrain the latent factors of a given item.

Parameters:
item_id the item ID
virtual void RetrainUser ( int  user_id  )  [inline, protected, virtual, inherited]

Retrain the latent factors of a given user.

Parameters:
user_id the user ID
virtual void SampleItemPair ( int  u,
out int  i,
out int  j 
) [inline, protected, virtual, inherited]

Sample a pair of items, given a user.

Parameters:
u the user ID
i the ID of the first item
j the ID of the second item
virtual bool SampleOtherItem ( int  u,
int  i,
out int  j 
) [inline, protected, virtual, inherited]

Sample another item, given the first one and the user.

Parameters:
u the user ID
i the ID of the given item
j the ID of the other item
Returns:
true if the given item was already seen by user u
virtual void SampleTriple ( out int  u,
out int  i,
out int  j 
) [inline, protected, virtual, inherited]

Sample a triple for BPR learning.

Parameters:
u the user ID
i the ID of the first item
j the ID of the second item

Reimplemented in WeightedBPRMF.

virtual int SampleUser (  )  [inline, protected, virtual, inherited]

Sample a user that has viewed at least one and not all items.

Returns:
the user ID
int SampleUserWithAttributes (  )  [inline, protected]

Samples an user for the mapping training. Only users that are associated with at least one item, and that actually have attributes, are taken into account.

Returns:
the user ID
override void SaveModel ( string  filename  )  [inline, virtual, inherited]

Save the model parameters to a file.

Parameters:
filename the name of the file to write to

Reimplemented from MF.

override string ToString (  )  [inline]

Return a string representation of the recommender.

The ToString() method of recommenders should list the class name and all hyperparameters, separated by space characters.

Implements IRecommender.

Reimplemented in BPRMF_UserMapping_Optimal.

virtual void UpdateFactors ( int  u,
int  i,
int  j,
bool  update_u,
bool  update_i,
bool  update_j 
) [inline, protected, virtual, inherited]

Update latent factors according to the stochastic gradient descent update rule.

Parameters:
u the user ID
i the ID of the first item
j the ID of the second item
update_u if true, update the user latent factors
update_i if true, update the latent factors of the first item
update_j if true, update the latent factors of the second item

Reimplemented in SoftMarginRankingMF.


Member Data Documentation

Matrix<float> attribute_to_factor [protected, inherited]

The matrix representing the attribute-to-factor mapping.

includes bias

bool fast_sampling = false [protected, inherited]

Fast, but memory-intensive sampling.

int fast_sampling_memory_limit = 1024 [protected, inherited]

Fast sampling memory limit, in MiB.

float [] item_bias [protected, inherited]

Item bias terms.

Matrix<float> item_factors [protected, inherited]

Latent item factor matrix.

double last_loss = double.NegativeInfinity [protected, inherited]

Loss for the last iteration, used by bold driver heuristics.

float learn_rate = 0.05f [protected, inherited]

Learning rate alpha.

double learn_rate_mapping = 0.01 [protected, inherited]

The learn rate for training the mapping functions.

int num_factors = 10 [protected, inherited]

Number of latent factors per user/item.

int num_init_mapping = 5 [protected, inherited]

number of times the regression is computed (to avoid local minima)

may be ignored by the recommender

int num_iter_mapping = 10 [protected, inherited]

number of iterations of the mapping training procedure

System.Random random [protected, inherited]

Random number generator.

float reg_i = 0.0025f [protected, inherited]

Regularization parameter for positive item factors.

float reg_j = 0.00025f [protected, inherited]

Regularization parameter for negative item factors.

double reg_mapping = 0.1 [protected, inherited]

regularization constant for the mapping

float reg_u = 0.0025f [protected, inherited]

Regularization parameter for user factors.

bool update_j = true [protected, inherited]

If set (default), update factors for negative sampled items during learning.

The matrix storing the user attributes.

Matrix<float> user_factors [protected, inherited]

Latent user factor matrix.

IList<IList<int> > user_neg_items [protected, inherited]

support data structure for fast sampling

IList<IList<int> > user_pos_items [protected, inherited]

support data structure for fast sampling


Property Documentation

float BiasReg [get, set, inherited]

Regularization parameter for the bias term.

bool BoldDriver [get, set, inherited]

Use bold driver heuristics for learning rate adaption.

Does not work too well for BPR-MF.

Literature:

int FastSamplingMemoryLimit [get, set, inherited]

Fast sampling memory limit, in MiB.

virtual IPosOnlyFeedback Feedback [get, set, inherited]

the feedback data to be used for training

double InitMean [get, set, inherited]

Mean of the normal distribution used to initialize the latent factors.

double InitStdDev [get, set, inherited]

Standard deviation of the normal distribution used to initialize the latent factors.

float LearnRate [get, set, inherited]

Learning rate alpha.

double LearnRateMapping [get, set, inherited]

The learn rate for training the mapping functions.

int MaxItemID [get, set, inherited]

Maximum item ID.

int MaxUserID [get, set, inherited]

Maximum user ID.

uint NumFactors [get, set, inherited]

Number of latent factors per user/item.

int NumInitMapping [get, set, inherited]

number of times the regression is computed (to avoid local minima)

may be ignored by the recommender

uint NumIter [get, set, inherited]

Number of iterations over the training data.

Implements IIterativeModel.

int NumIterMapping [get, set, inherited]

number of iterations of the mapping training procedure

int NumUserAttributes [get, set]

Number of binary user attributes

Implements IUserAttributeAwareRecommender.

float RegI [get, set, inherited]

Regularization parameter for positive item factors.

float RegJ [get, set, inherited]

Regularization parameter for negative item factors.

double RegMapping [get, set, inherited]

regularization constant for the mapping

float RegU [get, set, inherited]

Regularization parameter for user factors.

bool UniformUserSampling [get, set, inherited]

Sample uniformly from users.

bool UpdateJ [get, set, inherited]

If set (default), update factors for negative sampled items during learning.

SparseBooleanMatrix UserAttributes [get, set]

The binary user attributes

Implements IUserAttributeAwareRecommender.

bool WithReplacement [get, set, inherited]

Sample positive observations with (true) or without (false) replacement.


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