baselines.rst

Baselines

This family of people recommendation algorithms includes some important sanity-check baselines to include in the experiments.

• Random recommendation
• Popularity-based recommendation

Random recommendation

This algorithm generates random recommendation scores for each candidate user in the network.

Configuration file

Random:

Popularity-based recommendation

This algorithm recommends the set of most followed users in the network (i.e. those maximizing the in-degree).

Configuration file

Popularity: