如何计算数据集的密度（Density）

 

 

 

It's actually defined on the first page:

... sparsity level (ratio of observed to total ratings) ...

 

In other words, the fraction of the user/item rating matrix that is not empty. Remember that the problem is that most user-item pairs have no rating, and we wish to estimate them.

Example:

Let there be three users and four products. The number of possible ratings is 3×4=123×4=12. If every user rates only one product each (regardless of which product), the density is 3/12 = 25%.

 

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