I'm using the 100k ML data. I need to generate predictions using SVD++. In testing my setup I randomly chose a user and an unrated item to for that user then estimate preference. for example, estimating preference for user 1 and item 274 with a seeded random generator, one run returns 3.4404 and another 3.3961. This was using 19 factors (number of genres in ML) and 60 iterations. Even though the difference is small for my research I would like to eliminate this difference. For seeding the factorizer I seeded the random generator in the prepareTraining () method in SVDPlusPlusFactorizer class.
> From: [email protected] > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:16:10 +0100 > Subject: Re: Persistent SVD predictions > To: [email protected] > > For relatively small amounts of data, the effect of randomness may be > large. For larger amounts of data, the effects should be small. > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Sebastian Schelter <[email protected] > > wrote: > > > Hi Nadia, > > > > This should be the case if you fix the seed for the random number > > generator. What do you mean by the "results differed"? How did you > > choose the single item that you looked at? How did you choose the number > > of iterations? > > > > Best, > > Sebastian > > > > > > > > > > On 23.03.2013 13:10, Nadia A Najjar wrote: > > > Hi, > > > to rephrase my question: > > > Does the SVD++ factorization produce the same prediction value for a > > given item every time the SVD recommender is run? > > > > > > I'd appreciate any insight on this! > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > >> From: [email protected] > > >> To: [email protected] > > >> Subject: RE: Persistent SVD predictions > > >> Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 01:32:35 -0400 > > >> > > >> Hi,This is when comparing a single prediction for an item. I seeded the > > initial model training. That was the only place I found where a random > > number was used. > > >> > > >>> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:34:16 +0100 > > >>> From: [email protected] > > >>> To: [email protected] > > >>> Subject: Re: Persistent SVD predictions > > >>> > > >>> Hi Nadia, > > >>> > > >>> how did you try to seed the factorization? How do you measure your > > result? > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> On 19.03.2013 19:04, Nadia A Najjar wrote: > > >>>> Is there a way to get the same preference prediction result for an > > item using SVD recommender with SVD++ factorization?I tried seeding the > > factorization but the results still differed! > > >>>> Thanks! > > >>>> > > >>> > > >> > > > > > > > > > >
