Project: Amazon Product Recommendation System¶
Marks: 40¶
Welcome to the project on Recommendation Systems. We will work with the Amazon product reviews dataset for this project. The dataset contains ratings of different electronic products. It does not include information about the products or reviews to avoid bias while building the model.
Context:¶
Today, information is growing exponentially with volume, velocity and variety throughout the globe. This has lead to information overload, and too many choices for the consumer of any business. It represents a real dilemma for these consumers and they often turn to denial. Recommender Systems are one of the best tools that help recommending products to consumers while they are browsing online. Providing personalized recommendations which is most relevant for the user is what's most likely to keep them engaged and help business.
E-commerce websites like Amazon, Walmart, Target and Etsy use different recommendation models to provide personalized suggestions to different users. These companies spend millions of dollars to come up with algorithmic techniques that can provide personalized recommendations to their users.
Amazon, for example, is well-known for its accurate selection of recommendations in its online site. Amazon's recommendation system is capable of intelligently analyzing and predicting customers' shopping preferences in order to offer them a list of recommended products. Amazon's recommendation algorithm is therefore a key element in using AI to improve the personalization of its website. For example, one of the baseline recommendation models that Amazon uses is item-to-item collaborative filtering, which scales to massive data sets and produces high-quality recommendations in real-time.
Objective:¶
You are a Data Science Manager at Amazon, and have been given the task of building a recommendation system to recommend products to customers based on their previous ratings for other products. You have a collection of labeled data of Amazon reviews of products. The goal is to extract meaningful insights from the data and build a recommendation system that helps in recommending products to online consumers.
Dataset:¶
The Amazon dataset contains the following attributes:
- userId: Every user identified with a unique id
- productId: Every product identified with a unique id
- Rating: The rating of the corresponding product by the corresponding user
- timestamp: Time of the rating. We will not use this column to solve the current problem
Note: The code has some user defined functions that will be usefull while making recommendations and measure model performance, you can use these functions or can create your own functions.
Sometimes, the installation of the surprise library, which is used to build recommendation systems, faces issues in Jupyter. To avoid any issues, it is advised to use Google Colab for this project.
Let's start by mounting the Google drive on Colab.
from google.colab import drive
drive.mount('/content/drive')
Mounted at /content/drive
Installing surprise library
!pip install surprise
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Importing the necessary libraries and overview of the dataset¶
# Data Handling
import pandas as pd
# Mathematical calculation
import numpy as np
# Date Time Analysis
from time import time
from datetime import datetime
# Data visualization
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
%matplotlib inline
import seaborn as sns
sns.set()
from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
import matplotlib.patches as mpatches
# Statistical analysis
from scipy import stats
# Warnings
import warnings;
import numpy as np
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')
# Comment formatting
from IPython.display import display, HTML
# scikit-surprise recommender package
from surprise import SVD, KNNWithMeans
from surprise import Dataset, Reader, accuracy
from surprise.model_selection import train_test_split, GridSearchCV
from surprise.prediction_algorithms.baseline_only import BaselineOnly
Loading the data¶
- Import the Dataset
- Add column names ['user_id', 'prod_id', 'rating', 'timestamp']
- Drop the column timestamp
- Copy the data to another DataFrame called df
# Read the csv
data = pd.read_csv('/content/drive/MyDrive/MIT - Data Sciences/Colab Notebooks/Week_Seven_-_Recommendation_Systems/Project_Amazon_Product_Recommendation_System/ratings_Electronics.csv')
# Add column names
data.columns = ['user_id', 'prod_id', 'rating', 'timestamp']
Let's look at the shape of the data.
data.shape
(7824481, 4)
Observations:¶
- The dataset consists of 7,824,481 rows and 4 columns.
Let's look at the first five rows.
data.head()
user_id | prod_id | rating | timestamp | |
---|---|---|---|---|
0 | A2CX7LUOHB2NDG | 0321732944 | 5.0 | 1341100800 |
1 | A2NWSAGRHCP8N5 | 0439886341 | 1.0 | 1367193600 |
2 | A2WNBOD3WNDNKT | 0439886341 | 3.0 | 1374451200 |
3 | A1GI0U4ZRJA8WN | 0439886341 | 1.0 | 1334707200 |
4 | A1QGNMC6O1VW39 | 0511189877 | 5.0 | 1397433600 |
Let's look at the last five rows.
data.tail()
user_id | prod_id | rating | timestamp | |
---|---|---|---|---|
7824476 | A2YZI3C9MOHC0L | BT008UKTMW | 5.0 | 1396569600 |
7824477 | A322MDK0M89RHN | BT008UKTMW | 5.0 | 1313366400 |
7824478 | A1MH90R0ADMIK0 | BT008UKTMW | 4.0 | 1404172800 |
7824479 | A10M2KEFPEQDHN | BT008UKTMW | 4.0 | 1297555200 |
7824480 | A2G81TMIOIDEQQ | BT008V9J9U | 5.0 | 1312675200 |
Let's look at the data types.
data.info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'> RangeIndex: 7824481 entries, 0 to 7824480 Data columns (total 4 columns): # Column Dtype --- ------ ----- 0 user_id object 1 prod_id object 2 rating float64 3 timestamp int64 dtypes: float64(1), int64(1), object(2) memory usage: 238.8+ MB
Observations:¶
The dataset consists of 7,824,481 entries (as noted above) with four columns:
user_id (categorical): This column represents unique identifiers for users. It is of object data type, indicating categorical information.
prod_id (categorical): This column contains unique identifiers for products, also an object data type, suggesting it is categorical.
rating (continuous): This is a float data type and represents the rating score given by users to products. It is a continuous numeric feature.
timestamp (temporal): The timestamp is stored as an integer, indicating the time when each rating was recorded. This can be treated as a temporal feature, potentially used for time-based analysis or trends.
Make a Copy of the DataFrame
# Copy the data to another DataFrame called df
df = data.copy()
As this dataset is very large and has 7,824,482 observations, it is not computationally possible to build a model using this. Moreover, many users have only rated a few products and also some products are rated by very few users. Hence, we can reduce the dataset by considering certain logical assumptions.
Here, we will be taking users who have given at least 50 ratings, and the products that have at least 5 ratings, as when we shop online we prefer to have some number of ratings of a product.
# Get the column containing the users
users = df.user_id
# Create a dictionary from users to their number of ratings
ratings_count = dict()
for user in users:
# If we already have the user, just add 1 to their rating count
if user in ratings_count:
ratings_count[user] += 1
# Otherwise, set their rating count to 1
else:
ratings_count[user] = 1
# We want our users to have at least 50 ratings to be considered
RATINGS_CUTOFF = 50
remove_users = []
for user, num_ratings in ratings_count.items():
if num_ratings < RATINGS_CUTOFF:
remove_users.append(user)
df = df.loc[ ~ df.user_id.isin(remove_users)]
# Get the column containing the products
prods = df.prod_id
# Create a dictionary from products to their number of ratings
ratings_count = dict()
for prod in prods:
# If we already have the product, just add 1 to its rating count
if prod in ratings_count:
ratings_count[prod] += 1
# Otherwise, set their rating count to 1
else:
ratings_count[prod] = 1
# We want our item to have at least 5 ratings to be considered
RATINGS_CUTOFF = 5
remove_users = []
for user, num_ratings in ratings_count.items():
if num_ratings < RATINGS_CUTOFF:
remove_users.append(user)
df_final = df.loc[~ df.prod_id.isin(remove_users)]
Let's look at the first five rows now that we have completed our cleanup.
# Print a few rows of the imported dataset
df_final.head()
user_id | prod_id | rating | timestamp | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1309 | A3LDPF5FMB782Z | 1400501466 | 5.0 | 1336003200 |
1321 | A1A5KUIIIHFF4U | 1400501466 | 1.0 | 1332547200 |
1334 | A2XIOXRRYX0KZY | 1400501466 | 3.0 | 1371686400 |
1450 | AW3LX47IHPFRL | 1400501466 | 5.0 | 1339804800 |
1455 | A1E3OB6QMBKRYZ | 1400501466 | 1.0 | 1350086400 |
Exploratory Data Analysis¶
Shape of the data¶
Check the number of rows and columns and provide observations.¶
# Check the number of rows and columns and provide observations
df.shape
(125871, 4)
Observations:¶
- The dataset consists of 125,871 rows and 4 features after our data manipulation.
Data types¶
# Check Data types and provide observations
df.info()
<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'> Index: 125871 entries, 93 to 7824443 Data columns (total 4 columns): # Column Non-Null Count Dtype --- ------ -------------- ----- 0 user_id 125871 non-null object 1 prod_id 125871 non-null object 2 rating 125871 non-null float64 3 timestamp 125871 non-null int64 dtypes: float64(1), int64(1), object(2) memory usage: 4.8+ MB
Observations:¶
The dataset after is composed of both numerical and catagorical features.
Continuous Feature:
- rating
- timestamp
Categoricla Features:
- user_id
- prod_id
Summary of Features:
rating: The rating of the corresponding product by the corresponding user.
user_id: Unique identifier for each user.
prod_id: Unique identified for each product.
timestamp: Date of the rating in Unix format.
Checking for missing values¶
# Check for missing values present and provide observations
df.isnull().sum()
0 | |
---|---|
user_id | 0 |
prod_id | 0 |
rating | 0 |
timestamp | 0 |
Observations:¶
- There are no missing values in our dataset.
Checking for duplicate values¶
# Check for duplicate user_id, product_id combinations
df.duplicated(subset = ['user_id', 'prod_id']).sum()
0
Observations:¶
- There are no duplicate rows present.
Ratings counts
ratings_count = df.groupby('rating')['rating'].agg(['count'])
ratings_count
count | |
---|---|
rating | |
1.0 | 5115 |
2.0 | 5367 |
3.0 | 12060 |
4.0 | 32295 |
5.0 | 71034 |
Summary Statistics¶
# Summary statistics of 'rating' variable and provide observations
df.describe(include = "all").T
count | unique | top | freq | mean | std | min | 25% | 50% | 75% | max | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
user_id | 125871 | 1540 | A5JLAU2ARJ0BO | 520 | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN |
prod_id | 125871 | 48190 | B0088CJT4U | 206 | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN | NaN |
rating | 125871.0 | NaN | NaN | NaN | 4.261339 | 1.062144 | 1.0 | 4.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 | 5.0 |
timestamp | 125871.0 | NaN | NaN | NaN | 1321979017.4512 | 75835985.7041 | 939600000.0 | 1286928000.0 | 1346716800.0 | 1377129600.0 | 1406073600.0 |
# Define ratings variables for later use
min_rating = min(df['rating'])
max_rating = max(df['rating'])
Observations:¶
user_id Distribution:
- There are 125,871 total rows, with 1540 unique users.
prod_id Distribution:
- There are 476,001 unique products reviewed.
- The most reviewed product (
B0074BW614
) has 18,244 reviews, which might indicate this product is very popular or heavily marketed. - The skewness in both user and product frequencies could indicate a long-tail distribution where a few users and products dominate the activity.
rating Distribution:
- The mean rating is 4.01, which is quite high on a typical 1-5 rating scale.
- The standard deviation of 1.38 suggests that while the ratings cluster around 4, there is some variability with significant ratings across the spectrum.
- The minimum rating is 1 and the maximum is 5, with the 25th percentile at 3 and the 50th and 75th percentiles at 5. This indicates that a large proportion of the ratings are positive (5), while ratings of 3 represent a smaller but still noticeable percentage.
General Distribution Insight:
- Most users rate products positively, with the median and upper quartiles at the maximum rating of 5.
- A small number of products and users dominate the dataset, likely pointing to influential reviewers and popular products. This could suggest a highly skewed distribution.
Timestamp Distribution¶
Define a function to convert timestamps.
# Convert the timestamp column to a readable date time format
def convert_timestamp(ts):
try:
# Check if it's already a datetime object, if so return it
if isinstance(ts, datetime):
return ts.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
# Check if it's a string and if it can be converted to a timestamp
if isinstance(ts, str) and ts.isdigit():
return datetime.utcfromtimestamp(int(ts)).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
# If it's already a number, assume it's a Unix timestamp
if isinstance(ts, (int, float)):
return datetime.utcfromtimestamp(ts).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
# If none of the above, return the original value (and it will likely result in a NaT)
return ts
# Handle potential errors during conversion
except (ValueError, TypeError):
return ts
# Apply the function to the timestamp column
data['timestamp'] = data.timestamp.apply(convert_timestamp)
# Convert the datatype to datetime
data['timestamp'] = pd.to_datetime(data['timestamp'])
Let's get the range of the timestamps.
# Get the timespan of data
print("Minimum recorded ts:",data.timestamp.min())
print("Maximum recorded ts:",data.timestamp.max())
Minimum recorded ts: 1998-12-04 00:00:00 Maximum recorded ts: 2014-07-23 00:00:00
Let's visualize the distribution of the timestamp data.
# Visualize the year wise ratings distributions
# First, extract the year from the timestamp
data['Year'] = data['timestamp'].dt.year
# Calculate the count of ratings per year
yearly_counts = data['Year'].value_counts().sort_index()
# Set up the plotting area
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(12, 6))
# Plot a bar chart
yearly_counts.plot(kind='bar', ax=ax, color='skyblue')
# Add titles and labels
ax.set_title('Distribution of Ratings by Year')
ax.set_xlabel('Year')
ax.set_ylabel('Number of Ratings')
# Improve layout and display the plot
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()
Observations:¶
The timestamp feature covers the period from 1998 to 2014, and shows a steady increase in users providing product ratings, except for a significant spike in 2013, which appears to be an outlier with no clear explanation.
The timestamp column is a Unix timestamp that contains only the date component without any time (HHMMSS).
The timestamp column, at the surface, does not appear to contribute in any meaningful way to the ratings and will not be useful to our analysis, it would be appropriate to exclude it from further consideration.
The timestamp oes not appear to contribute in any meaningful way to the ratings and will not be useful to our analysis so it will be dropped.
Let's drop the timestamp column.
# Drop the column timestamp
data.drop('timestamp', axis = 1, inplace = True)
Ratings Distribution¶
# Create a frequency table for the ratings
rating_counts = df['rating'].value_counts().reset_index()
rating_counts.columns = ['Rating', 'Frequency']
# Calculate percentage for each rating
rating_counts['Percentage'] = (rating_counts['Frequency'] / rating_counts['Frequency'].sum()) * 100
# Create the horizontal bar plot with the Tab10 palette
fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 6))
colors = plt.get_cmap('tab10').colors
bars = ax.barh(rating_counts['Rating'], rating_counts['Frequency'], color=colors[:len(rating_counts)])
# Remove scientific notation on the x-axis
ax.ticklabel_format(style='plain', axis='x')
# Annotate the relative percentage inside each bar
for bar, percentage in zip(bars, rating_counts['Percentage']):
width = bar.get_width()
ax.text(width - (width * 0.05), bar.get_y() + bar.get_height() / 2,
f'{percentage:.2f}%', va='center', ha='right', color='white')
# Add labels and title
ax.set_xlabel('Frequency')
ax.set_ylabel('Rating')
ax.set_title('Rating Distribution')
# Display the plot
plt.show()
Let's look at the ratings distributions by the numbers.
# Display distribution by count and percentage
ratings_counts = df.groupby('rating')['rating'].agg(['count'])
ratings_percentages = ratings_counts / ratings_counts.sum() * 100
combined_table = pd.concat([ratings_counts, ratings_percentages], axis=1)
combined_table.columns = ['Count', 'Percentage (%)']
combined_table['Percentage (%)'] = combined_table['Percentage (%)'].round(2)
combined_table
Count | Percentage (%) | |
---|---|---|
rating | ||
1.0 | 5115 | 4.06 |
2.0 | 5367 | 4.26 |
3.0 | 12060 | 9.58 |
4.0 | 32295 | 25.66 |
5.0 | 71034 | 56.43 |
Observations:¶
Ratings Distribution:
The majority of the ratings are concentrated at the upper end of the scale. Specifically, the 5-star rating has the highest frequency, followed by 4-star ratings.
Lower ratings (1-star, 2-star, and 3-star) have much fewer occurrences compared to 4-star and 5-star ratings. This suggests a generally positive sentiment among users.
Skewed Distribution:
- The distribution is heavily left-skewed, with a significant portion of ratings being in the 4 and 5 categories. This could imply that users are more likely to rate products highly rather than critically.
Mid-Range Ratings (3-stars):
- The 3-star rating has a small frequency, potentially indicating that users tend to either love or dislike a product (i.e., the 3-star rating is less popular or less frequently used).
User Sentiment:
- Since the higher ratings (4 and 5) dominate, this suggests that the overall sentiment of the ratings is positive.
Unique Users and Products¶
# Number of total rows in the data and number of unique user id and product id in the data
# Total number of rows
total_rows = df.shape[0]
# Number of unique users
unique_users = df['user_id'].nunique()
# Print in table format
pd.DataFrame({'Total Rows': [total_rows], 'Unique Users': [unique_users]})
Total Rows | Unique Users | |
---|---|---|
0 | 125871 | 1540 |
Observations:¶
- As previously noted there are 1,540 unique users in the dataset.
Users with the Most Number of Ratings¶
# Top 10 users based on the number of ratings
user_ratings_counts = df.groupby('user_id').size().reset_index(name='num_ratings')
user_ratings_counts = user_ratings_counts.sort_values(by='num_ratings', ascending=False)
# Display the top 10 users
user_ratings_counts.head(10)
user_id | num_ratings | |
---|---|---|
1203 | A5JLAU2ARJ0BO | 520 |
1287 | ADLVFFE4VBT8 | 501 |
1086 | A3OXHLG6DIBRW8 | 498 |
1210 | A6FIAB28IS79 | 431 |
1209 | A680RUE1FDO8B | 406 |
264 | A1ODOGXEYECQQ8 | 380 |
903 | A36K2N527TXXJN | 314 |
521 | A2AY4YUOX2N1BQ | 311 |
1508 | AWPODHOB4GFWL | 308 |
1439 | ARBKYIVNYWK3C | 296 |
Let's determine the actual distribution of the number of ratings by users.
# Users with 250 or more reviews
users_with_250_or_more_reviews = user_ratings_counts[user_ratings_counts['num_ratings'] >= 250].shape[0]
users_with_250_or_more_reviews_perc = round((users_with_250_or_more_reviews / user_ratings_counts.shape[0]) * 100, 2)
print(f"Number of unique users with 250 or more reviews: {users_with_250_or_more_reviews} or {users_with_250_or_more_reviews_perc}%")
# Users with 100 or more reviews
users_with_100_or_more_reviews = user_ratings_counts[user_ratings_counts['num_ratings'] >= 100].shape[0]
users_with_100_or_more_reviews_perc = round((users_with_100_or_more_reviews / user_ratings_counts.shape[0]) * 100, 2)
print(f"Number of unique users with 100 or more reviews: {users_with_100_or_more_reviews} or {users_with_100_or_more_reviews_perc}%")
# Users with 50 reviews
users_with_50_reviews = user_ratings_counts[user_ratings_counts['num_ratings'] == 50].shape[0]
users_with_50_reviews_perc = round((users_with_50_reviews / user_ratings_counts.shape[0]) * 100, 2)
print(f"Number of unique users with 50 reviews: {users_with_50_reviews} or {users_with_50_reviews_perc}%")
Number of unique users with 250 or more reviews: 23 or 1.49% Number of unique users with 100 or more reviews: 289 or 18.77% Number of unique users with 50 reviews: 74 or 4.81%
Let's visualize the distribution.
# Chart the distribution of users performing ratings, using bins
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
plt.hist(user_ratings_counts['num_ratings'], bins=50)
plt.xlabel('Number of Ratings')
plt.ylabel('Number of Users')
plt.title('Distribution of Users Performing Ratings')
plt.show()
Observations:¶
The user (A5JLAU2ARJ0BO) has performed 520 ratings.
Users with 250 or More Reviews (1.49%):
Highly Engaged Super Users: Only 1.49% of your users have contributed 250 or more reviews. This indicates a very small, but extremely active group of users who are highly invested in your platform. These "super users" are likely to be core contributors and advocates.
Strategic Value: Despite their small percentage, these users likely drive a disproportionate amount of content and engagement. Retaining this group is crucial for platform health. Personalized engagement tactics (exclusive benefits, recognition, or advanced features) could help maintain their loyalty and activity.
Users with 100 or More Reviews (18.77%):
- Highly Engaged Segment: Nearly 19% of your user base has provided 100 or more reviews, indicating a solid portion of dedicated users. This represents a broader group of valuable contributors who are highly active, though not at the "super user" level.
Users with Exactly 50 Reviews (4.81%):
- Moderate Engagement: At 4.81%, the number of users with exactly 50 reviews suggests they are moderately engaged. These users could be on the brink of becoming more active but may need additional encouragement to increase their contribution levels.
General Observations:
- Engagement Distribution: The data illustrates a classic engagement distribution: a small percentage of highly active users (1.49% with 250+ reviews) contrasted with a larger portion of moderately engaged users (18.77% with 100+ reviews). The small number of super-engaged users suggests that a large portion of content creation is concentrated among a few individuals.
Now that we have explored and prepared the data, let's build the first recommendation system.
Model 1: Rank Based Recommendation System¶
Let's calculate the average rating for each product.
# Perform a calculation to find the average rating for each product
# Group by 'prod_id' and calculate the average rating for each product
average_ratings = df.groupby('prod_id')['rating'].mean().reset_index()
# Rename the columns for better readability
average_ratings.columns = ['prod_id', 'average_rating']
Let's find the number f ratings for each product.
# Calculate the count of ratings for each product
# Group by 'prod_id' and calculate the count of ratings for each product
ratings_count = df.groupby('prod_id')['rating'].count().reset_index()
# Rename the columns for better clarity
ratings_count.columns = ['prod_id', 'ratings_count']
Let's create a dataframe.
# Create a dataframe with calculated average and count of ratings
# Group by 'prod_id' and calculate both the average and count of ratings
product_stats = df.groupby('prod_id').agg(
average_rating=('rating', 'mean'), # Calculate the average rating
ratings_count=('rating', 'count') # Calculate the count of ratings
).reset_index()
# Round the 'average_rating' column to 2 decimal places
product_stats['average_rating'] = product_stats['average_rating'].round(2)
Let's sort the dataframe by ratings in descending order.
# Sort the dataframe by average of ratings in the descending order
# Sort the DataFrame by 'average_rating' in descending order
final_rating = product_stats.sort_values(by='average_rating', ascending=False)
Let's look at the first five rows.
# See the first five records of the "final_rating" dataset
final_rating.head(5)
prod_id | average_rating | ratings_count | |
---|---|---|---|
0 | 0594451647 | 5.0 | 1 |
26017 | B003RRY9RS | 5.0 | 1 |
26013 | B003RR95Q8 | 5.0 | 1 |
26009 | B003RIPMZU | 5.0 | 1 |
26006 | B003RFRNYQ | 5.0 | 2 |
Products with the most/fewest ratings¶
Let's look at the distribution of the number of ratings by product.
# Products with more than one rating
# Sort the DataFrame by 'average_rating' in descending order
final_rating = product_stats.sort_values(by='ratings_count', ascending=False)
final_rating
prod_id | average_rating | ratings_count | |
---|---|---|---|
39003 | B0088CJT4U | 4.22 | 206 |
24827 | B003ES5ZUU | 4.86 | 184 |
11078 | B000N99BBC | 4.77 | 167 |
38250 | B007WTAJTO | 4.70 | 164 |
38615 | B00829TIEK | 4.44 | 149 |
... | ... | ... | ... |
19185 | B001UVCYN4 | 5.00 | 1 |
19187 | B001UW7YDS | 5.00 | 1 |
19188 | B001UWKP0M | 2.00 | 1 |
19190 | B001V2PGX2 | 4.00 | 1 |
48189 | B00LKG1MC8 | 5.00 | 1 |
48190 rows × 3 columns
Let's plot this distribution to explore any potential trends that can be derived.
# Create scatter plot
x_column = 'average_rating'
y_column = 'ratings_count'
data = final_rating
title = 'Average Rating vs Ratings Count'
x_label = 'Average Rating'
y_label = 'Ratings Count'
palette = 'tab10'
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
sns.scatterplot(x=x_column, y=y_column, data=data, palette='palette')
plt.title(title if title else f'Scatter Plot: {x_column} vs {y_column}')
plt.xlabel(x_label if x_label else x_column)
plt.ylabel(y_label if y_label else y_column)
plt.grid(True)
plt.show()
Observations:¶
Concentration of Ratings Around Whole Numbers:
- There are clear vertical bands in the plot at average ratings like 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and 5.0. This suggests that average ratings for products tend to round toward these whole numbers.
Higher Rating Counts at Higher Average Ratings:
- There are more products with a high number of ratings (above 50) when the average rating is around 4.0 and 5.0. This indicates that products with higher average ratings tend to have more reviews.
Lower Rating Counts at Lower Average Ratings:
- Products with average ratings between 1.0 and 2.0 have much fewer ratings overall, as shown by the lower density of points in this range.
Wide Range of Ratings Counts Across All Ratings:
- For average ratings across the spectrum (from 1.0 to 5.0), the number of ratings varies widely. Some products have only a few ratings, while others have over 100 ratings. This suggests a broad variability in the number of reviews products receive, regardless of their average rating.
Products with Many Ratings (Over 50) Are Predominantly High-Rated:
- The majority of products that have a high number of ratings (over 50) appear in the 3.5 to 5.0 average rating range. There are very few high-count products with an average rating below 3.0.
Conclusion:
A tendency for products to receive ratings around whole numbers, which may indicate less diversity in ratings.
Products with higher average ratings often have more total ratings.
There are relatively few products with very low average ratings that receive a high number of reviews.
Let's define a function to get the top n products based on the highest average rating and minimum interactions and sort by average rating.
# Defining a function to get the top n products based on the highest average rating and minimum interactions by finding products with a minimum number of interactions and sorting by average rating
def get_top_n_products(final_rating, n, min_interactions):
"""
Get the top n products based on the highest average rating and a specified minimum number of interactions.
Parameters:
final_rating (DataFrame): DataFrame containing 'prod_id', 'average_rating', and 'ratings_count'.
n (int): The number of top products to return.
min_interactions (int): The minimum number of interactions required for a product to be considered.
Returns:
DataFrame: A DataFrame with the top n products sorted by average rating.
"""
# Filter products based on the minimum number of interactions passed as an argument
filtered_products = final_rating[final_rating['ratings_count'] >= min_interactions]
# Sort values with respect to average rating in descending order
sorted_products = filtered_products.sort_values(by='average_rating', ascending=False)
# Return the top n products
return sorted_products.head(n)
# Example usage:
# Get the top 5 products with at least 10 ratings
#top_products = get_top_n_products(final_rating, n=5, min_interactions=10)
Recommending top 5 products with 50 minimum interactions based on popularity¶
# Top 5 products with 50 minimum interactions based on popularity
top_products_50 = get_top_n_products(final_rating, n=5, min_interactions=50)
top_products_50
prod_id | average_rating | ratings_count | |
---|---|---|---|
18891 | B001TH7GUU | 4.87 | 78 |
15538 | B0019EHU8G | 4.86 | 90 |
24827 | B003ES5ZUU | 4.86 | 184 |
36352 | B006W8U2MU | 4.82 | 57 |
11943 | B000QUUFRW | 4.81 | 84 |
Recommending top 5 products with 100 minimum interactions based on popularity¶
# Top 5 products with 100 minimum interactions based on popularity
top_products_100 = get_top_n_products(final_rating, n=5, min_interactions=100)
top_products_100
prod_id | average_rating | ratings_count | |
---|---|---|---|
24827 | B003ES5ZUU | 4.86 | 184 |
11078 | B000N99BBC | 4.77 | 167 |
22602 | B002WE6D44 | 4.77 | 100 |
38250 | B007WTAJTO | 4.70 | 164 |
22460 | B002V88HFE | 4.70 | 106 |
We have recommended the top 5 products by using the popularity recommendation system. Now, let's build a recommendation system using collaborative filtering.
Model 2: Collaborative Filtering Recommendation System¶
Building a baseline user-user similarity based recommendation system¶
- Below, we are building similarity-based recommendation systems using
cosine
similarity and using KNN to find similar users which are the nearest neighbor to the given user. - We will be using a new library, called
surprise
, to build the remaining models. Let's first import the necessary classes and functions from this library.
Let's load additional libraries.
# To compute the accuracy of models
# from surprise import accuracy - instantiated above
# Class is used to parse a file containing ratings,
# data should be in structure - user ; item ; rating
# from surprise.reader import Reader - instantiated above
# Class for loading datasets
# from surprise.dataset import Dataset - instantiated above
# For tuning model hyperparameters
# from surprise.model_selection import GridSearchCV - instantiated above
# For splitting the rating data in train and test datasets
# from surprise.model_selection import train_test_split - instantiated above
# For implementing similarity-based recommendation system
from surprise.prediction_algorithms.knns import KNNBasic
# For implementing matrix factorization based recommendation system
from surprise.prediction_algorithms.matrix_factorization import SVD
# for implementing K-Fold cross-validation
from surprise.model_selection import KFold
# For implementing clustering-based recommendation system
from surprise import CoClustering
Before building the recommendation systems, let's go over some basic terminologies we are going to use:
Relevant item: An item (product in this case) that is actually rated higher than the threshold rating is relevant, if the actual rating is below the threshold then it is a non-relevant item.
Recommended item: An item that's predicted rating is higher than the threshold is a recommended item, if the predicted rating is below the threshold then that product will not be recommended to the user.
False Negative (FN): It is the frequency of relevant items that are not recommended to the user. If the relevant items are not recommended to the user, then the user might not buy the product/item. This would result in the loss of opportunity for the service provider, which they would like to minimize.
False Positive (FP): It is the frequency of recommended items that are actually not relevant. In this case, the recommendation system is not doing a good job of finding and recommending the relevant items to the user. This would result in loss of resources for the service provider, which they would also like to minimize.
Recall: It is the fraction of actually relevant items that are recommended to the user, i.e., if out of 10 relevant products, 6 are recommended to the user then recall is 0.60. Higher the value of recall better is the model. It is one of the metrics to do the performance assessment of classification models.
Precision: It is the fraction of recommended items that are relevant actually, i.e., if out of 10 recommended items, 6 are found relevant by the user then precision is 0.60. The higher the value of precision better is the model. It is one of the metrics to do the performance assessment of classification models.
While making a recommendation system, it becomes customary to look at the performance of the model. In terms of how many recommendations are relevant and vice-versa, below are some most used performance metrics used in the assessment of recommendation systems.
Precision@k, Recall@ k, and F1-score@k¶
Precision@k - It is the fraction of recommended items that are relevant in top k
predictions. The value of k is the number of recommendations to be provided to the user. One can choose a variable number of recommendations to be given to a unique user.
Recall@k - It is the fraction of relevant items that are recommended to the user in top k
predictions.
F1-score@k - It is the harmonic mean of Precision@k and Recall@k. When precision@k and recall@k both seem to be important then it is useful to use this metric because it is representative of both of them.
Some useful functions¶
- Below function takes the recommendation model as input and gives the precision@k, recall@k, and F1-score@k for that model.
- To compute precision and recall, top k predictions are taken under consideration for each user.
- We will use the precision and recall to compute the F1-score.
Let's load another additional library.
# The provided function requires the following
from collections import defaultdict
Let's define a function to calculate precision@k, recall@k, F1-Score@k and RMSE.
def precision_recall_at_k(model, k=10, threshold = 3.5):
"""Return precision and recall at k metrics for each user"""
# First map the predictions to each user
user_est_true = defaultdict(list)
# Making predictions on the test data
predictions = model.test(testset)
for uid, _, true_r, est, _ in predictions:
user_est_true[uid].append((est, true_r))
precisions = dict()
recalls = dict()
for uid, user_ratings in user_est_true.items():
# Sort user ratings by estimated value
user_ratings.sort(key = lambda x: x[0], reverse = True)
# Number of relevant items
n_rel = sum((true_r >= threshold) for (_, true_r) in user_ratings)
# Number of recommended items in top k
n_rec_k = sum((est >= threshold) for (est, _) in user_ratings[:k])
# Number of relevant and recommended items in top k
n_rel_and_rec_k = sum(((true_r >= threshold) and (est >= threshold))
for (est, true_r) in user_ratings[:k])
# Precision@K: Proportion of recommended items that are relevant
# When n_rec_k is 0, Precision is undefined. Therefore, we are setting Precision to 0 when n_rec_k is 0
precisions[uid] = n_rel_and_rec_k / n_rec_k if n_rec_k != 0 else 0
# Recall@K: Proportion of relevant items that are recommended
# When n_rel is 0, Recall is undefined. Therefore, we are setting Recall to 0 when n_rel is 0
recalls[uid] = n_rel_and_rec_k / n_rel if n_rel != 0 else 0
# Mean of all the predicted precisions are calculated.
precision = round((sum(prec for prec in precisions.values()) / len(precisions)), 3)
# Mean of all the predicted recalls are calculated.
recall = round((sum(rec for rec in recalls.values()) / len(recalls)), 3)
accuracy.rmse(predictions)
print('Precision: ', precision) # Command to print the overall precision
print('Recall: ', recall) # Command to print the overall recall
print('F_1 score: ', round((2*precision*recall)/(precision+recall), 3)) # Formula to compute the F-1 score
Hints:
- To compute precision and recall, a threshold of 3.5 and k value of 10 can be considered for the recommended and relevant ratings.
- Think about the performance metric to choose.
Below we are loading the rating
dataset, which is a pandas DataFrame, into a different format called surprise.dataset.DatasetAutoFolds
, which is required by this library. To do this, we will be using the classes Reader
and Dataset
.
Let's instatiate the Reader Object.
# Instatiate the Reader object (use min_rating and max_rating as previously defined )
reader = Reader(rating_scale=(min_rating, max_rating))
Let's load the ratings dataset.
# Loading the rating dataset
ratings_suprise = Dataset.load_from_df(df_final[['user_id', 'prod_id', 'rating']], reader)
Let's split the data with a 70/30 split.
# Splitting the data (70:30 ratio)
trainset, testset = train_test_split( # The dataset size is sufficiently large enough to split the data a bit more generously with respect to testing
ratings_suprise, # Note: a test if an 80:20 split lead to essentially the same results
test_size=0.3,
random_state=1
)
Now, we are ready to build the first baseline similarity-based recommendation system using the cosine similarity.
Building the user-user Similarity-based Recommendation System¶
Let's define similarity options.
# Declaring the similarity options for a user-user collaborative filtering
sim_options = {
'name': 'cosine', # Use 'cosine' or 'pearson' or 'pearson_baseline'
'user_based': True, # Set to True for user-user similarity
}
Let's instantiate the model.
# Initialize the KNNBasic model using sim_options, verbose=False, and setting random_state
sim_user = KNNBasic(sim_options=sim_options, verbose=False, random_state=1)
Let's train the model.
# Fit the model on the training data (assuming `trainset` is already prepared)
sim_user.fit(trainset)
<surprise.prediction_algorithms.knns.KNNBasic at 0x783cafb16b90>
Let's calculate precision@k, recall@k, F1 Score@k and RMSE.
# Compute precision@k, recall@k, and F1 Score using the provided function
precision_recall_at_k(sim_user)
RMSE: 1.0390 Precision: 0.852 Recall: 0.785 F_1 score: 0.817
Observations:¶
- The goal is to minimize false positives (products recommended as popular among similar users that actually aren't) and false negatives (products predicted as unpopular but are actually popular with similar users). To achieve this, we aim to maximize the F1 score.
RMSE: 1.0390
Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) measures the difference between predicted ratings and actual ratings. A lower RMSE is better, as it indicates the model is more accurate in predicting ratings.
1.04 is a reasonably low RMSE, which suggests that the model is performing well at predicting user ratings on a 1-5 scale. However, there may still be room for improvement if the goal is highly accurate predictions.
Precision: 0.852
Precision measures how many of the products recommended as popular are actually relevant. A precision of 0.852 (or 85.2%) means that the vast majority of products recommended by the model are indeed relevant.
This is a decent precision score, indicating that the model is effectively minimizing false positives.
Recall: 0.785
Recall measures how many of the relevant products are being recommended. A recall of 0.785 (or 78.5%) means that while many relevant products are being recommended, some are still being missed.
This value shows that the model is doing fairly well in terms of recall, but there are still some false negatives (relevant products that are not being recommended).
F1 Score: 0.817
The F1 score is the harmonic mean of precision and recall. At 0.817 (or 81.7%), the model strikes a good balance between precision and recall, indicating that it performs well in reducing both false positives and false negatives.
Given that the goal is to maximize the F1 score, 0.817 reflects a good performance, but there may still be opportunities to improve, especially in terms of recall.
Conclusions:
Strengths: The model performs particularly well in terms of precision, indicating that it recommends relevant products effectively. The relatively low RMSE also suggests good rating prediction accuracy.
Areas for Improvement: While the recall is strong, improving it further would help reduce false negatives, and in turn, increase the F1 score. This could involve adjusting model parameters or exploring other algorithms to capture more relevant products in recommendations.
Overall, the model is performing well, especially in minimizing false positives, but further fine-tuning could improve recall and push the F1 score higher.
Let's now predict rating for a user with userId=A3LDPF5FMB782Z
and productId=1400501466
as shown below. Here the user has already interacted or watched the product with productId '1400501466' and given a rating of 5.
# Predicting rating for a sample user with an interacted product
sim_user.predict('A3LDPF5FMB782Z', '1400501466', r_ui = 5, verbose = True)
user: A3LDPF5FMB782Z item: 1400501466 r_ui = 5.00 est = 3.80 {'actual_k': 5, 'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A3LDPF5FMB782Z', iid='1400501466', r_ui=5, est=3.8, details={'actual_k': 5, 'was_impossible': False})
- The predicted rating for this user and this product is 3.8, while the actual rating is 5.
Below is the list of users who have not seen the product with product id "1400501466".
# Find unique user_id where prod_id is not equal to "1400501466"
not_seen = df_final[df_final.prod_id != "1400501466"]
not_seen
user_id | prod_id | rating | timestamp | |
---|---|---|---|---|
2081 | A2ZR3YTMEEIIZ4 | 1400532655 | 5.0 | 1300233600 |
2149 | A3CLWR1UUZT6TG | 1400532655 | 5.0 | 1291420800 |
2161 | A5JLAU2ARJ0BO | 1400532655 | 1.0 | 1291334400 |
2227 | A1P4XD7IORSEFN | 1400532655 | 4.0 | 1324166400 |
2362 | A341HCMGNZCBIT | 1400532655 | 5.0 | 1302048000 |
... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
7824422 | A34BZM6S9L7QI4 | B00LGQ6HL8 | 5.0 | 1405555200 |
7824423 | A1G650TTTHEAL5 | B00LGQ6HL8 | 5.0 | 1405382400 |
7824424 | A25C2M3QF9G7OQ | B00LGQ6HL8 | 5.0 | 1405555200 |
7824425 | A1E1LEVQ9VQNK | B00LGQ6HL8 | 5.0 | 1405641600 |
7824426 | A2NYK9KWFMJV4Y | B00LGQ6HL8 | 5.0 | 1405209600 |
65284 rows × 4 columns
Observations:¶
- It can be observed from the above list that user "A34BZM6S9L7QI4" has not seen the product with productId "1400501466" as this userId is a part of the above list.
Let's ensure the user in in the dataset.
'A34BZM6S9L7QI4' in not_seen['user_id'].unique()
True
Below we are predicting rating for userId=A34BZM6S9L7QI4
and prod_id=1400501466
.
# Predicting rating for a sample user with a non interacted product
sim_user.predict('A34BZM6S9L7QI4', '1400501466', verbose=True)
user: A34BZM6S9L7QI4 item: 1400501466 r_ui = None est = 2.00 {'actual_k': 2, 'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A34BZM6S9L7QI4', iid='1400501466', r_ui=None, est=1.9969324864734994, details={'actual_k': 2, 'was_impossible': False})
Observations:¶
- The predicted rating for this user-item pair is 2.00 based on this user-user similarity model.
Improving similarity-based recommendation system by tuning its hyperparameters¶
Below, we will be tuning hyperparameters for the KNNBasic
algorithm. Let's try to understand some of the hyperparameters of the KNNBasic algorithm:
- k (int) – The (max) number of neighbors to take into account for aggregation. Default is 40.
- min_k (int) – The minimum number of neighbors to take into account for aggregation. If there are not enough neighbors, the prediction is set to the global mean of all ratings. Default is 1.
- sim_options (dict) – A dictionary of options for the similarity measure. And there are four similarity measures available in surprise -
- cosine
- msd (default)
- Pearson
- Pearson baseline
Let's define our hyperparameters for tuning.
# Parameter grid to tune the hyperparameters
param_grid = {
'k': [10, 20, 30],
'min_k': [3, 6, 9],
'sim_options': {
'name': ['msd', 'cosine'],
'user_based': [True] # Compute similarities between users
}
}
Let's perform 3-fold cross-validation.
# Perform 3-fold cross-validation to tune hyperparameters
grid_search = GridSearchCV(KNNBasic, param_grid, measures=['rmse'], cv=3)
Let's train the model.
# Fit the data
grid_search.fit(ratings_suprise)
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# Best RMSE score
print(grid_search.best_score['rmse'])
0.9697570001107455
Let's examine the combination of parameters that gave the best RMSE score.
# Combination of parameters that gave the best RMSE score
print(grid_search.best_params['rmse'])
{'k': 30, 'min_k': 6, 'sim_options': {'name': 'cosine', 'user_based': True}}
Once the grid search is complete, we can get the optimal values for each of those hyperparameters.
Now, let's build the final model by using tuned values of the hyperparameters, which we received by using grid search cross-validation.
Let's define similarity options.
# Using the optimal similarity measure for user-user based collaborative filtering
sim_options = {
'name': 'cosine',
'user_based': True,
}
Let's instantiate the model.
# Creating an instance of KNNBasic with optimal hyperparameter values
sim_user_optimized = KNNBasic(sim_options=sim_options, verbose=False, random_state=1, k=30, min_k=6)
Let's train the model.
# Training the algorithm on the trainset
sim_user_optimized.fit(trainset)
<surprise.prediction_algorithms.knns.KNNBasic at 0x783cafb16f80>
Let's calculate the precision@k, recall@k, F1-Score@k and RMSE.
# Let us compute precision@k and recall@k also with k = 10
precision_recall_at_k(sim_user_optimized)
RMSE: 0.9791 Precision: 0.842 Recall: 0.807 F_1 score: 0.824
Observations:¶
RMSE: 0.9791: This is a lower root mean squared error, indicating better accuracy in predicting user ratings compared to the baseline results. The predictions are closer to the actual ratings.
Precision: 0.842: The model is able to correctly identify 84.2% of relevant recommendations, which is solid performance, although slightly lower than the baseline results.
Recall: 0.807: Recall is higher in this set compared to the baseline results (80.7%), meaning the model captures more relevant recommendations.
F1 Score: 0.824: The F1 score is a bit higher, indicating a better balance between precision and recall compared to the baseline results.
Comparison of Baseline vs Optimized Model:
RMSE:
Baseline RMSE: 1.0390
Optimized RMSE: 0.9791
The optimized model shows a lower RMSE (0.9791 vs. 1.0390), indicating better accuracy in predicting user ratings. This means the optimized model’s predictions are closer to the actual ratings, reducing the prediction error.
Precision:
Baseline Precision: 0.852
Optimized Precision: 0.842
The baseline model has a slightly higher precision (85.2% vs. 84.2%), meaning it provides more accurate relevant recommendations. The optimized model performs nearly as well, but the marginal decrease indicates it may allow slightly more false positives compared to the baseline.
Recall:
Baseline Recall: 0.785
Optimized Recall: 0.807
The optimized model improves in recall (80.7% vs. 78.5%), indicating that it captures more relevant items in its recommendations. The optimized model is better at reducing false negatives, successfully identifying more items the user would have found relevant.
F1 Score:
Baseline F1 Score: 0.817
Optimized F1 Score: 0.824
The optimized model has a higher F1 score (82.4% vs. 81.7%), showing a better balance between precision and recall. This indicates that the optimized model is better overall at making relevant recommendations while maintaining a good balance between minimizing false positives and capturing relevant items.
Conclusions:
RMSE: The optimized model significantly improves accuracy with a lower RMSE, making its rating predictions more reliable.
Precision: The baseline model slightly outperforms the optimized model in precision, meaning it provides more relevant recommendations with fewer false positives.
Recall: The optimized model improves recall, meaning it successfully captures more relevant items and reduces false negatives.
F1 Score: The higher F1 score in the optimized model shows it achieves a better balance between precision and recall, making it more effective overall.
Overall, while the baseline excels slightly in precision, the optimized model provides better overall performance with higher recall, a lower RMSE, and a better balance between precision and recall (as reflected in the F1 score).
Steps:¶
- Predict rating for the user with
userId="A3LDPF5FMB782Z"
, andprod_id= "1400501466"
using the optimized model - Predict rating for
userId="A34BZM6S9L7QI4"
who has not interacted withprod_id ="1400501466"
, by using the optimized model - Compare the output with the output from the baseline model
# Use sim_user_optimized model to recommend for userId "A3LDPF5FMB782Z" and productId "1400501466"
sim_user_optimized.predict('A3LDPF5FMB782Z', '1400501466', r_ui = 5,verbose=True)
user: A3LDPF5FMB782Z item: 1400501466 r_ui = 5.00 est = 4.30 {'was_impossible': True, 'reason': 'Not enough neighbors.'}
Prediction(uid='A3LDPF5FMB782Z', iid='1400501466', r_ui=5, est=4.29674200818327, details={'was_impossible': True, 'reason': 'Not enough neighbors.'})
# Use sim_user_optimized model to recommend for userId "A34BZM6S9L7QI4" and productId "1400501466"
sim_user_optimized.predict('A34BZM6S9L7QI4', '1400501466', verbose=True)
user: A34BZM6S9L7QI4 item: 1400501466 r_ui = None est = 4.30 {'was_impossible': True, 'reason': 'Not enough neighbors.'}
Prediction(uid='A34BZM6S9L7QI4', iid='1400501466', r_ui=None, est=4.29674200818327, details={'was_impossible': True, 'reason': 'Not enough neighbors.'})
Observations:¶
- In both cases the model indicates insufficient neighbors, and defaults to the global mean which is ~4.3.
Identifying similar users to a given user (nearest neighbors)¶
We can also find out similar users to a given user or its nearest neighbors based on this KNNBasic algorithm. Below, we are finding the 5 most similar users to the first user in the list with internal id 0, based on the msd
distance metric.
Let's find the nearest neighbor of the user with iid = 0
# 0 is the inner id of the above user
sim_user_optimized.get_neighbors(0, k=5)
[1, 10, 17, 18, 28]
Implementing the recommendation algorithm based on optimized KNNBasic model¶
Below we will be implementing a function where the input parameters are:
- data: A rating dataset
- user_id: A user id against which we want the recommendations
- top_n: The number of products we want to recommend
- algo: the algorithm we want to use for predicting the ratings
- The output of the function is a set of top_n items recommended for the given user_id based on the given algorithm
Let's define a function to get recommendations.
def get_recommendations(data, user_id, top_n, algo):
# Creating an empty list to store the recommended product ids
recommendations = []
# Creating an user item interactions matrix
user_item_interactions_matrix = data.pivot(index = 'user_id', columns = 'prod_id', values = 'rating')
# Extracting those product ids which the user_id has not interacted yet
non_interacted_products = user_item_interactions_matrix.loc[user_id][user_item_interactions_matrix.loc[user_id].isnull()].index.tolist()
# Looping through each of the product ids which user_id has not interacted yet
for item_id in non_interacted_products:
# Predicting the ratings for those non interacted product ids by this user
est = algo.predict(user_id, item_id).est
# Appending the predicted ratings
recommendations.append((item_id, est))
# Sorting the predicted ratings in descending order
recommendations.sort(key = lambda x: x[1], reverse = True)
return recommendations[:top_n] # Returing top n highest predicted rating products for this user
Predicting top 5 products for userId = "A3LDPF5FMB782Z" with similarity based recommendation system
# Making top 5 recommendations for user_id "A3LDPF5FMB782Z" with a similarity-based recommendation engine
recommendations = get_recommendations(df_final, 'A3LDPF5FMB782Z', 5, sim_user_optimized)
# Building the dataframe for above recommendations with columns "prod_id" and "predicted_ratings"
pd.DataFrame(recommendations, columns = ['prod_id', 'predicted_ratings'])
prod_id | predicted_ratings | |
---|---|---|
0 | B002WE4HE2 | 5.000000 |
1 | B002WE6D44 | 5.000000 |
2 | B0052SCU8U | 5.000000 |
3 | B003ES5ZUU | 4.951627 |
4 | B000Q8UAWY | 4.857143 |
Item-Item Similarity-based Collaborative Filtering Recommendation System¶
- Above we have seen similarity-based collaborative filtering where similarity is calculated between users. Now let us look into similarity-based collaborative filtering where similarity is seen between items.
Let's define similarity parameters.
# Declaring the similarity options.
sim_options = {
'name': 'cosine',
'user_based': False
}
Let's instatiate the model.
# KNN algorithm is used to find desired similar items.
sim_item = KNNBasic(sim_options=sim_options, verbose=False, random_state=1)
Let's train the model.
# Train the algorithm on the trainset
sim_item.fit(trainset)
<surprise.prediction_algorithms.knns.KNNBasic at 0x783cadf794e0>
Let's make predicitons on the training data.
# Predict ratings for the testset
testset_predictions = sim_item.test(testset)
testset_predictions[:5]
[Prediction(uid='A20DZX38KRBIT8', iid='B001EQ0HAW', r_ui=5.0, est=1.0, details={'actual_k': 1, 'was_impossible': False}), Prediction(uid='A1N5FSCYN4796F', iid='B006MBP7T0', r_ui=5.0, est=3.7256848753629352, details={'actual_k': 14, 'was_impossible': False}), Prediction(uid='A1D9V11QUHXENQ', iid='B0000645RH', r_ui=4.0, est=4.0, details={'actual_k': 1, 'was_impossible': False}), Prediction(uid='A1L1N3J6XNABO2', iid='B004DBD4TG', r_ui=5.0, est=5.0, details={'actual_k': 2, 'was_impossible': False}), Prediction(uid='A30XZK10EZN9V4', iid='B003XM1WE0', r_ui=5.0, est=3.998468592044059, details={'actual_k': 4, 'was_impossible': False})]
Let's calculate precision@k, recall@k, F1 Score@k and RMSE.
# Let us compute precision@k, recall@k, and f_1 score with k = 10
precision_recall_at_k(sim_item)
RMSE: 1.0345 Precision: 0.833 Recall: 0.768 F_1 score: 0.799
Observations:¶
RMSE: 1.0345:
- This RMSE shows that while the model performs reasonably well, there’s still room for improvement in terms of accuracy.
Precision: 0.833:
- This is a solid precision score, indicating that the model makes mostly relevant recommendations and is good at minimizing false positives.
Recall: 0.768:
- A recall of 0.768 is decent but slightly lower than precision, indicating that while the model captures many relevant recommendations, there are still some that it misses (false negatives).
F1 Score: 0.799:
- While this is a strong performance, improvements in recall could further boost the F1 score.
Summary of Observations:
Strengths:
The model excels in precision, meaning that a high percentage of the recommended items are relevant to the user.
The F1 score of 0.799 indicates that the model strikes a good balance between precision and recall.
Areas for Improvement:
The recall could be improved to capture more relevant items that are not currently being recommended. This would help reduce false negatives.
The RMSE shows that while the model is fairly accurate in predicting user ratings, there’s still some variance (about 1 point off on average) that could be minimized.
Overall, the model performs well in recommending relevant items (high precision) but could benefit from improved recall to capture more relevant recommendations.
Let's now predict a rating for a user with userId = A3LDPF5FMB782Z
and prod_Id = 1400501466
as shown below. Here the user has already interacted or watched the product with productId "1400501466".
# Predicting rating for a sample user with an interacted product
sim_item.predict('A3LDPF5FMB782Z', '1400501466', r_ui = 5, verbose = True)
user: A3LDPF5FMB782Z item: 1400501466 r_ui = 5.00 est = 4.19 {'actual_k': 16, 'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A3LDPF5FMB782Z', iid='1400501466', r_ui=5, est=4.1875, details={'actual_k': 16, 'was_impossible': False})
Observations:¶
The model estimated a rating of 4.19 for a product that the user has previously rated as 5. This shows that the model's prediction is somewhat close but not perfectly aligned with the actual user rating.
The model successfully used 16 similar items to compute this prediction, which suggests that there was sufficient data available for the product in question.
The underestimation of the rating might suggest that the model could be improved in terms of accurately capturing the user's preferences for this particular item or that the user's strong preference (rating of 5) may be more specific than the model's general recommendations.
Overall, the prediction is reasonable, though slightly conservative compared to the user's true rating.
Below we are predicting rating for the userId = A34BZM6S9L7QI4
and prod_id = 1400501466
.
Let's make predictions for user A34BZM6S9L7QI4 and product 1400501466.
# Predicting rating for a sample user with a non interacted product
sim_item.predict('A34BZM6S9L7QI4', '1400501466', verbose=True)
user: A34BZM6S9L7QI4 item: 1400501466 r_ui = None est = 4.00 {'actual_k': 3, 'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A34BZM6S9L7QI4', iid='1400501466', r_ui=None, est=4.0, details={'actual_k': 3, 'was_impossible': False})
Observations:¶
The estimated rating is 4.00, which suggests that the model believes the user would likely find the product favorable but does not have a strong indication of an extremely high preference.
The fact that the model found only 3 similar items (compared to 16 in the previous example) suggests that the data for this product or user is more sparse, which might affect prediction accuracy.
The prediction, while reasonable, might not be as confident due to the fewer similar items used in the computation. This could indicate some uncertainty in how well the model can generalize for this user on this product.
In conclusion, the prediction is based on limited data and suggests a moderate preference by the user for the product, but the reduced number of similar items (3) might indicate that the model’s confidence in this estimate is lower.
Hyperparameter tuning the item-item similarity-based model¶
- Use the following values for the param_grid and tune the model.
- 'k': [10, 20, 30]
- 'min_k': [3, 6, 9]
- 'sim_options': {'name': ['msd', 'cosine']
- 'user_based': [False]
- Use GridSearchCV() to tune the model using the 'rmse' measure
- Print the best score and best parameters
Let's define parameters.
# Setting up parameter grid to tune the hyperparameters
param_grid_ = {
'k': [10, 20, 30],
'min_k': [3, 6, 9],
'sim_options': {
'name': ['msd', 'cosine'],
'user_based': [True]
}
}
Let's perform 3-fold cross-validation.
# Perform 3-fold cross-validation to tune hyperparameters
grid_search_ = GridSearchCV(KNNBasic, param_grid_, measures=['rmse'], cv=3)
Let's train the model.
# Fit the data
grid_search_.fit(ratings_suprise)
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Let's calculate the RMSE score.
# Find the best RMSE score
print(grid_search_.best_score['rmse'])
0.9714976467628085
Let's determine the best combination of parameters that gives the best RMSE score.
# Find the combination of parameters that gave the best RMSE score
print(grid_search_.best_params['rmse'])
{'k': 30, 'min_k': 6, 'sim_options': {'name': 'cosine', 'user_based': True}}
Once the grid search is complete, we can get the optimal values for each of those hyperparameters as shown above.
Now let's build the final model by using tuned values of the hyperparameters which we received by using grid search cross-validation.
Use the best parameters from GridSearchCV to build the optimized item-item similarity-based model. Compare the performance of the optimized model with the baseline model.¶
Let's define similarity options.
# Using the optimal similarity measure for item-item based collaborative filtering
sim_options_ = {
'name': 'msd',
'user_based': False
}
Let's instantiate the model.
# Creating an instance of KNNBasic with optimal hyperparameter values
sim_item_optimized = KNNBasic(sim_options=sim_options_, verbose=False, random_state=1, k=30, min_k=6)
Let's train the model.
# Training the algorithm on the trainset
sim_item_optimized.fit(trainset)
<surprise.prediction_algorithms.knns.KNNBasic at 0x783caf97d780>
Let's calculate precision@k, recall@k, F1 Score@k and RMSE.
# Let us compute precision@k and recall@k, f1_score and RMSE
precision_recall_at_k(sim_item_optimized)
RMSE: 0.9804 Precision: 0.833 Recall: 0.8 F_1 score: 0.816
Observations:¶
RMSE: 0.9804:
- An RMSE of 0.9804 is a fairly low RMSE, meaning the model is performing well in terms of rating prediction accuracy. It's able to predict ratings with an error of less than 1 point on average, which is a good sign.
Precision: 0.833:
- A precisions score of 0.833 is a strong score, indicating that the model is effective in minimizing false positives, i.e., items that are predicted as relevant but are not actually highly rated by the user.
Recall: 0.800:
- A recall score of 0.800 indicates that the model does a good job of finding relevant items but misses some (false negatives), meaning there are relevant items that the model didn't recommend.
F1 Score: 0.816:
- A score of 0.816 suggests the model is fairly well-balanced in terms of precision and recall, although there is still some room for improvement in recall to capture more relevant items.
Comparison of Baseline vs Optimized Model:
RMSE:
Baseline RMSE: 1.0345
Optimized RMSE: 0.9804
The optimized model has a lower RMSE (0.9804) compared to the baseline (1.0345), indicating that the optimized model makes more accurate predictions, with an average error closer to 1 rating unit in the baseline and under 1 rating unit in the optimized version.
This improvement in RMSE reflects better accuracy in predicting user ratings.
Precision:
Baseline Precision: 0.833
Optimized Precision: 0.833
Both the baseline and optimized models have the same precision (83.3%).
This indicates that the optimization did not impact the model's ability to recommend relevant items, and both models are equally good at minimizing false positives.
Recall:
Baseline Recall: 0.768
Optimized Recall: 0.800
The optimized model shows an increase in recall (80%) compared to the baseline (76.8%).
This indicates that the optimized model is better at capturing relevant items (reducing false negatives), meaning it is able to recommend more items that the user is likely to find relevant.
F1 Score:
Baseline F1 Score: 0.799
Optimized F1 Score: 0.816
The optimized model has a higher F1 score (0.816) compared to the baseline (0.799), reflecting a better balance between precision and recall.
The improvement in F1 score suggests that the optimized model performs better overall, with stronger recall while maintaining the same level of precision.
Summary of the Comparison:
RMSE: The optimized model shows a clear improvement in accuracy with a lower RMSE (0.9804 vs. 1.0345).
Precision: Both models maintain the same precision, showing strong performance in recommending relevant items.
Recall: The optimized model significantly improves recall (80% vs. 76.8%), meaning it captures more relevant items in its recommendations.
F1 Score: The higher F1 score in the optimized model reflects a better balance between precision and recall, indicating overall improved performance.
Conclusions:
The optimized model clearly outperforms the baseline in terms of accuracy (RMSE), recall, and F1 score, making it a better model for recommending items. The precision remains consistent between both models, but the optimized model captures more relevant recommendations, making it the better choice overall.
Steps:¶
- Predict rating for the user with
userId="A3LDPF5FMB782Z"
, andprod_id= "1400501466"
using the optimized model - Predict rating for
userId="A34BZM6S9L7QI4"
who has not interacted withprod_id ="1400501466"
, by using the optimized model - Compare the output with the output from the baseline model
# Use sim_item_optimized model to recommend for userId "A3LDPF5FMB782Z" and productId "1400501466"
sim_item_optimized.predict('A3LDPF5FMB782Z', '1400501466', r_ui = 5,verbose=True)
user: A3LDPF5FMB782Z item: 1400501466 r_ui = 5.00 est = 4.53 {'actual_k': 16, 'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A3LDPF5FMB782Z', iid='1400501466', r_ui=5, est=4.534653465346536, details={'actual_k': 16, 'was_impossible': False})
# Use sim_item_optimized model to recommend for userId "A34BZM6S9L7QI4" and productId "1400501466"
sim_item_optimized.predict('A34BZM6S9L7QI4', '1400501466', verbose=True)
user: A34BZM6S9L7QI4 item: 1400501466 r_ui = None est = 4.30 {'was_impossible': True, 'reason': 'Not enough neighbors.'}
Prediction(uid='A34BZM6S9L7QI4', iid='1400501466', r_ui=None, est=4.29674200818327, details={'was_impossible': True, 'reason': 'Not enough neighbors.'})
Observations:¶
Prediction for User
'A3LDPF5FMB782Z'
: The model had sufficient data (16 neighbors) to make a confident prediction for this user, estimating a rating of 4.53, indicating a strong preference for the product.Prediction for User
'A34BZM6S9L7QI4'
: The model estimated a rating of 4.30, but flagged the prediction as incomplete or less reliable due to the lack of enough neighbors to make a solid recommendation. This could indicate data sparsity or that the user's preferences are not well-covered by the available data.
In conclusion, while both users received reasonably positive predictions, the model's confidence in the second prediction is lower due to insufficient data, making the first prediction more reliable.
Identifying similar items to a given item (nearest neighbors)¶
We can also find out similar items to a given item or its nearest neighbors based on this KNNBasic algorithm. Below we are finding the 5 most similar items to the item with internal id 0 based on the msd
distance metric.
Let's get the nearest neighbors for the user whose iid = 0.
# 0 is the inner id of the above user
sim_item_optimized.get_neighbors(0, k=5)
[9, 12, 13, 22, 28]
Predicting top 5 products for userId = "A1A5KUIIIHFF4U" with similarity based recommendation system.
Hint: Use the get_recommendations() function.
# Making top 5 recommendations for user_id A1A5KUIIIHFF4U with similarity-based recommendation engine.
recommendations_ = get_recommendations(df_final, 'A1A5KUIIIHFF4U', 5, sim_item_optimized)
# Building the dataframe for above recommendations with columns "prod_id" and "predicted_ratings"
pd.DataFrame(recommendations_, columns = ['prod_id', 'predicted_ratings'])
prod_id | predicted_ratings | |
---|---|---|
0 | 1400532655 | 4.296742 |
1 | 1400599997 | 4.296742 |
2 | 9983891212 | 4.296742 |
3 | B00000DM9W | 4.296742 |
4 | B00000J1V5 | 4.296742 |
Now as we have seen similarity-based collaborative filtering algorithms, let us now get into model-based collaborative filtering algorithms.
Model 3: Model-Based Collaborative Filtering - Matrix Factorization¶
Model-based Collaborative Filtering is a personalized recommendation system, the recommendations are based on the past behavior of the user and it is not dependent on any additional information. We use latent features to find recommendations for each user.
Singular Value Decomposition (SVD)¶
SVD is used to compute the latent features from the user-item matrix. But SVD does not work when we miss values in the user-item matrix.
Let's instantiate the model.
# Using SVD matrix factorization. Use random_state = 1
svd = SVD(random_state=1)
Let's train the model.
# Training the algorithm on the trainset
svd.fit(trainset)
<surprise.prediction_algorithms.matrix_factorization.SVD at 0x7f9057fb9cf0>
Let's calculate precision@k, recall@k, F1-Score@k, and RMSE
# Use the function precision_recall_at_k to compute precision@k, recall@k, F1-Score, and RMSE
precision_recall_at_k(svd)
RMSE: 0.9114 Precision: 0.854 Recall: 0.802 F_1 score: 0.827
Observations:¶
RMSE: The low RMSE of 0.9114 indicates that the SVD model is highly accurate in predicting user ratings, more so than previous models tested, including KNN-based approaches.
Precision: The model achieves high precision (85.4%), meaning it is highly effective at recommending relevant items and minimizing incorrect recommendations.
Recall: With a recall of 80.2%, the model is successfully identifying the majority of relevant items, although some relevant recommendations are still being missed.
F1 Score: The F1 score of 0.827 reflects a solid balance between precision and recall, indicating the model is effective at both identifying relevant items and avoiding irrelevant ones.
Conclusions: The SVD matrix factorization model demonstrates excellent performance, achieving a good balance between precision and recall, as reflected in the high F1 score. The low RMSE indicates strong accuracy in predicting user ratings. Overall, the SVD model outperforms previous models in terms of both predictive accuracy and recommendation quality, making it a strong choice for recommendation tasks.
Let's now predict the rating for a user with userId = "A3LDPF5FMB782Z"
and prod_id = "1400501466
.
# Making prediction
svd.predict('A3LDPF5FMB782Z', '1400501466', r_ui = 5, verbose = True)
user: A3LDPF5FMB782Z item: 1400501466 r_ui = 5.00 est = 4.26 {'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A3LDPF5FMB782Z', iid='1400501466', r_ui=5, est=4.262585198727372, details={'was_impossible': False})
Observations:¶
The model estimated a rating of 4.26 for a product the user rated as 5.00, indicating that the model predicts the user likes the product but slightly underestimates their strong preference.
Below we are predicting rating for the userId = "A34BZM6S9L7QI4"
and productId = "1400501466"
.
# Making prediction
svd.predict('A34BZM6S9L7QI4', '1400501466', verbose=True)
user: A34BZM6S9L7QI4 item: 1400501466 r_ui = None est = 4.43 {'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A34BZM6S9L7QI4', iid='1400501466', r_ui=None, est=4.430784168423419, details={'was_impossible': False})
Observations:¶
- The model predicts that the user would likely rate the product 4.43, indicating a positive preference, despite the fact that the user has not interacted with this product previously. The prediction was completed successfully without any issues.
Improving Matrix Factorization based recommendation system by tuning its hyperparameters¶
Below we will be tuning only three hyperparameters:
- n_epochs: The number of iterations of the SGD algorithm.
- lr_all: The learning rate for all parameters.
- reg_all: The regularization term for all parameters.
Let's define parameters.
# Set the parameter space to tune
param_grid_ = {
'n_epochs': [5, 10],
'lr_all': [0.002, 0.005],
'reg_all': [0.4, 0.6]
}
Let's perform 3-fold cross-validation.
# Performing 3-fold gridsearch cross-validation
grid_search_ = GridSearchCV(SVD, param_grid_, measures=['rmse'], cv=3)
Let's train the model.
# Fit the data
grid_search_.fit(ratings_suprise)
Let's calculate the best RMSE.
# Best RMSE score
print(grid_search_.best_score['rmse'])
0.913529048522442
Let's examine the combination of parameters that gave the best RMSE score.
# Combination of parameters that gave the best RMSE score
print(grid_search_.best_params['rmse'])
{'n_epochs': 10, 'lr_all': 0.005, 'reg_all': 0.4}
Now, we will the build final model by using tuned values of the hyperparameters, which we received using grid search cross-validation above.
Let's instantaite the model.
# Build the optimized SVD model using optimal hyperparameter search. Use random_state=1
svd_optimized = SVD(random_state=1)
Let's train the model.
# Train the algorithm on the trainset
svd_optimized.fit(trainset)
<surprise.prediction_algorithms.matrix_factorization.SVD at 0x7f90580dad70>
Let's calculate precision@k, recall@k, F1 Score@k and RMSE.
# Use the function precision_recall_at_k to compute precision@k, recall@k, F1-Score, and RMSE
precision_recall_at_k(svd_optimized)
RMSE: 0.9114 Precision: 0.854 Recall: 0.802 F_1 score: 0.827
Observations:¶
Hyperparameter Tuning:
Best RMSE Score: 0.9135 was achieved during 3-fold cross-validation.
The optimal hyperparameters found were:
- n_epochs: 10 (number of training epochs)
- lr_all: 0.005 (learning rate)
- reg_all: 0.4 (regularization term)
RMSE: The optimized model achieves a low RMSE of 0.9114, indicating highly accurate rating predictions.
Precision: The model performs well in terms of precision (85.4%), making accurate recommendations that are mostly relevant to the user.
Recall: The model captures 80.2% of relevant items, though there is still room for improvement in terms of finding more relevant items.
F1 Score: A balanced F1 score of 0.827 demonstrates that the model is effective at both making accurate recommendations and capturing a significant portion of relevant items.
Conclusions:
The optimized SVD model shows strong performance with a low RMSE, high precision, good recall and a balanced F1 score. The hyperparameter tuning process helped improve the model’s ability to predict ratings accurately and recommend relevant items, making it highly effective overall.
Steps:¶
- Predict rating for the user with
userId="A3LDPF5FMB782Z"
, andprod_id= "1400501466"
using the optimized model - Predict rating for
userId="A34BZM6S9L7QI4"
who has not interacted withprod_id ="1400501466"
, by using the optimized model - Compare the output with the output from the baseline model
# Use svd_optimized model to recommend for userId "A3LDPF5FMB782Z" and productId "1400501466"
svd_optimized.predict('A3LDPF5FMB782Z', '1400501466', r_ui = 5, verbose=True)
user: A3LDPF5FMB782Z item: 1400501466 r_ui = 5.00 est = 4.26 {'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A3LDPF5FMB782Z', iid='1400501466', r_ui=5, est=4.262585198727372, details={'was_impossible': False})
# Use svd_optimized model to recommend for userId "A34BZM6S9L7QI4" and productId "1400501466"
svd_optimized.predict('A34BZM6S9L7QI4', '1400501466', verbose=True)
user: A34BZM6S9L7QI4 item: 1400501466 r_ui = None est = 4.43 {'was_impossible': False}
Prediction(uid='A34BZM6S9L7QI4', iid='1400501466', r_ui=None, est=4.430784168423419, details={'was_impossible': False})
Observations:¶
For User
'A3LDPF5FMB782Z'
: The model predicts a rating of 4.26, indicating that the user would find the product appealing but not with the highest enthusiasm.For User
'A34BZM6S9L7QI4'
: The model predicts a slightly higher rating of 4.43, indicating a stronger positive preference for the product compared to the previous user.Both predictions were successfully generated with no issues (
'was_impossible': False
), suggesting the model has sufficient data and confidence to make these predictions for both users.
Conclusions:
Both users are predicted to have favorable opinions of the product, with the second user showing a slightly stronger predicted preference. The model handled both predictions successfully and without any errors, indicating confidence in the recommendation.
Conclusion and Recommendations¶
Methodologies:¶
The recommendation models were developed using the following methodologies:
- Rank-based recommendations driven by average ratings.
- User-user similarity-based collaborative filtering.
- Item-item similarity-based collaborative filtering.
- Model-based collaborative filtering leveraging matrix factorization (SVD).
Clustering-based recommendation approaches were not explored in the current phase of the project due to potentially higher computational costs and the primary focus on collaborative filtering models. However, clustering could be beneficial in future phases to group similar users or items and further personalize recommendations.
The objective was to optimize both precision@k and recall@k by focusing on maximizing the F1 score, ensuring a balanced performance between accuracy and relevance in the recommendations. To enhance model effectiveness, hyperparameter tuning was conducted using grid search cross-validation (GridSearchCV) across all approaches. Further tuning, especially exploring a broader set of parameters (e.g., regularization and learning rates in SVD), could provide additional performance gains.
Model Performance Metrics:¶
The models were evaluated using RMSE, Precision@K, Recall@K, and F1 Score metrics, and the results were as follows:
Model | RMSE | Precision@K | Recall@K | F1 Score |
---|---|---|---|---|
Baseline User-User CF | 1.0345 | 0.833 | 0.768 | 0.799 |
Optimized User-User CF | 0.9791 | 0.842 | 0.807 | 0.824 |
Baseline Item-Item CF | 1.0345 | 0.833 | 0.768 | 0.799 |
Optimized Item-Item CF | 0.9804 | 0.833 | 0.800 | 0.816 |
Baseline SVD (Matrix Factorization) | 1.0390 | 0.852 | 0.785 | 0.817 |
Optimized SVD (Matrix Factorization) | 0.9114 | 0.854 | 0.802 | 0.827 |
Analysis of Results:¶
- Optimized User-User CF achieved the highest F1 Score (0.824), indicating the best balance between precision and recall, making it a strong performer for recommendation relevance.
- Optimized Matrix Factorization (SVD) achieved the lowest RMSE (0.9114), demonstrating that it provides the most accurate rating predictions. The higher precision (0.854) shows the model’s strength in recommending highly relevant items, though the recall (0.802) is slightly lower compared to User-User CF.
- Optimized Item-Item CF also shows strong performance, with an F1 Score of 0.816 and RMSE of 0.9804, making it a close competitor.
Final Recommendation:¶
Use Optimized Matrix Factorization (SVD) for Production
Given a priority on accuracy and trust in predicted ratings, the Optimized Matrix Factorization (SVD) model is recommended for production. It achieves the lowest RMSE, providing the best rating prediction accuracy, which is crucial in ensuring user trust in the recommendations. The higher precision also indicates the model's ability to recommend highly relevant items.
However, if the business goal is to enhance engagement by balancing precision and recall for a wider set of relevant recommendations, the User-User Collaborative Filtering model could be considered due to its highest F1 score.
Thus, the final recommendation depends on whether prediction accuracy or recommendation relevance is prioritized:
- For highest accuracy (lower RMSE): Go with Optimized SVD (Matrix Factorization).
- For best balance between precision and recall: Go with Optimized User-User CF.
Future Considerations:¶
Further Fine-Tuning Hyperparameters: Expanding the search space during hyperparameter tuning, particularly for SVD, could help improve performance. Parameters such as regularization and learning rates could be optimized further to reveal better configurations.
Hybrid Models for Improved Results: Consider using a hybrid recommendation system that blends collaborative filtering and content-based filtering. This approach could improve the personalization of recommendations by combining user-item interactions with product metadata (e.g., categories, descriptions).
User Segmentation: Segmenting users based on their interaction history or product preferences could help refine recommendations further. This approach allows different recommendation models to be tailored to various user groups, optimizing the relevance of suggestions for specific segments.
By adopting these recommendations, the system can deliver more accurate and personalized recommendations to users, enhancing user satisfaction and increasing ROI.
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