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Adaptive Recommender Systems with Apache Spark

scala recommender-systems machine-learning apache-spark big-data

13th December 2018 in London

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At Elsevier, Adam and Anna have augmented their CF-based research article recommender system with a ‘Learning to Rank’ (LTR) machine learning model that uses a rich array of article features to modify and re-rank recommendations. In addition, this model is constantly adapting to real user feedback, so that recommendation quality improves over time with no manual intervention.

In this talk, we will explore the implementation of the CF algorithm and adaptive LTR model in Apache Spark to produce demonstrably higher quality recommendations to our users, and look at how Spark allows developers and data scientists to work together on a web-scale production system.

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