Expert-recommendation-system

Recommender systems are now popular both commercially and in the research community, where many algorithms have been suggested for providing recommendations. These algorithms typically perform differently in various domains and tasks. In this repository we deal with different algorithms we used to build a recommendation system for suggesting how likely a user would answer a question using the byte cup data.

General instructions

All the code is in python and can be easily run by just cloning/downloading the repository. It already has all the features generted and the code for executing different algorithms can be found in the Expert-recommendation-system/code directory.

Running the code

You need to have python 2.7 setup on your machine for running code on this repository. The code could be simply run with the following command python [file_name]

Instructions for Running various Algorithms

• Linear and Logistic regression
  Files associated :- linreg.py, logreg.py

• Collaborative Filtering

  • User-based Collaborative Filtering
    Files associated :- collabFiltering.py, collavFiltering_cross.py

  • Item-based Collaborative Filtering
    Files associated :- collab_users_and_questions.py, collab_content_based_tags.py

• Content-Based Method

  • Content-Boosted Collaborative Filtering
    Files associated :- contentBoostedCF.py, content_based_tfidf_reverse.py, contentBoosted_cross.py, content_based_with_tfidf.py, content_based.py, content_based_withgaussian.py

  • Content-Based Method With K Nearest Neighbors(KNN)
    Files associated :- content_based_cold.py, content_tfidf_on_training.py

• Hybrid Method
  Files associated :- collab_content_based_tags.py

• Neural Networks
  Required Libraries :- TensorFlow Files associated :- /code/neural net/nn_final.py and all the assoicated files are present

• XGBoost
  Files associated :- tryxgb.py, xgb_nparray.py, xgb_nparray_hs1.py, xgb_submiss.py, xgb_submiss_hs1.py,

• Sparse Linear Method (SLIM)
  Files associated :- predictSLIM.py, predictSLIMqu.py

• SVD++
  This was run using various libraries like MyMediaLIte and librec using some of the feature files directly.

• MyMediaLite
  Files associated :- This is a library and the commands to run the same are in the /MyMediaLite-3.10/nb.txt

• Matrix Factorization
  Files associated :- MatrixFactorization.ipynb this is an iPython notebook you need ipython to run this.