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How can you build simple recommender systems with Surprise? [Amol Mavuduru]
January 4, 2021
Amol Mavuduru wrote a nice tutorial on how to build recommender systems with the Surprise Library. It should be noted, however, that Surprise is not being actively developed anymore. This is a pity, as Surprise is easy to use (I always recommend it to my students for their first experiments). As a side note, my group recently released ‘Auto-Surprise‘, an AutoML-like extension to Surprise.
I am the founder of Recommender-Systems.com and head of the Intelligent Systems Group (ISG) at the University of Siegen, Germany https://isg.beel.org. We conduct research in recommender-systems (RecSys), personalization and information retrieval (IR) as well as on automated machine learning (AutoML), meta-learning and algorithm selection. Domains we are particularly interested in include smart places, eHealth, manufacturing (industry 4.0), mobility, visual computing, and digital libraries.
We founded or maintain, among others, LensKit-Auto, Darwin & Goliath, Mr. DLib, and Docear, each with thousand of users; we contributed to TensorFlow, JabRef and others; and we developed the first prototypes of automated recommender systems (AutoSurprise and Auto-CaseRec) and Federated Meta Learning (FMLearn Server and Client).