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D:LAB MOBILE SUMMER 2021: MACHINE LEARNING RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS PROJECT. (UPDATED)

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Recommender systems are one of the most successful and widespread application of machine learning technologies in business. You can find large scale recommender systems in retail, video on demand, or music streaming. Machine learning algorithms in recommender systems are typically classified into two categories — content based and collaborative filtering methods although modern recommenders combine both approaches. Content based methods are based on similarity of item attributes and collaborative methods calculate similarity from interactions. This project is aimed at building machine learning skills for application in a variety of projects in the new future.





ABOUT THE MENTOR

Dr. Kenneth Fletcher is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He will be lending his expertise for the Machine Learning Recommender Systems project.
















ABOUT THE TEAM

There are thirty one ready to learn and industrious members on this team. Sub-divided into five groups. Namely:

  • Data generation with variational auto encoder(VAE)

  • Data generation with generative adversarial networks(GANs)

  • Matrix Factorization recommender system

  • KNN recommender system

  • Neural Network based recommender system



THE JOURNEY SO FAR

Project data for the recommender systems were disseminated, and participants have been operationally attuned to the installation and use of Virtual engines.


Exciting technologies(to mention a few) being explored are:

  • Tensor Flow

  • Py Torch

  • GitLab

  • Lenox operating system

  • Ubuntu Virtual Machine

  • Stream lit

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The D:Lab is an exciting on-campus group to be a part of, and the skills and experience that you gain will set you apart as a creative and capable problem-solver. Get involved today. 

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