You interact nearly every day with recommendation systems—algorithms which guess what products and services you might like, based on your past behavior. These systems largely rely on collaborative-filtering, an approach based on linear algebra that fills in the missing values in a matrix. Today we’ll see two ways to do this: one based on a classic linear algebra formulation, and one based on deep learning.
Video
This lesson is based partly on chapter 8 of the book.
Resources
- Notebooks for this lesson:
- Road to the top: part 3 and part 4
- Collaborative Filtering Deep Dive
- Spreadsheets for this lesson:
- Things that confused me about cross-entropy by Chris Said
- Label Smoothing Explained using Microsoft Excel by Aman Arora