Exploring the user-based recommender 1

recommending items to some user, denoted by u, as seen below

It would be terribly slow to examine every item. In reality, a neighborhood of most similar users is computed first, and only items known to those users are considered:

 The basic flow to build a CF likes blow codes in mahout:

DataModel model = new FileDataModel(new File("intro.csv"));
UserSimilarity similarity = new PearsonCorrelationSimilarity(model);
UserNeighborhood neighborhood = new NearestNUserNeighborhood(2, similarity, model);

Recommender recommender = new GenericUserBasedRecommender( model, neighborhood, similarity);

//retrive recommend result for user 1 
List<RecommendedItem> recommendations =  recommender.recommend(1, 1);

 The content of intro.csv file is formatted by fields UserID  ItemID  PreferenceValue

4,103,3.0
4,104,4.5
4,106,4.0
5,101,4.0
5,102,3.0
5,103,2.0
5,104,4.0
5,105,3.5

 Exploring user neighborhoods

• Fixed-size neighborhoods

 UserNeighborhood neighborhood = new NearestNUserNeighborhood(100, similarity, model);

•  Threshold-based neighborhood

 UserNeighborhood neighborhood = new ThresholdUserNeighborhood(0.7, similarity, model);