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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY PATNA


Ashok Raj Path, PATNA 800 005 (Bihar), India

Phone.: 0612 – 2372715, 2370419, 2370843, 2371929, 2371930, 2371715 Fax – 0612- 2670631 Website: www.nitp.ac.in

CSX452 Recommendation Systems

L-T-P-Cr: 3-0-0-3

Pre-requisites: Fundamental knowledge of algorithms and AI

Objectives/Overview:
• Explaining the importance and working of the recommendation system.
• The course focuses on the applicability of the recommendation system in various areas
like books, research papers, tourist places, television programs etc.
• The course explains major techniques of recommendation system like content based
filtering, collaborative filtering, knowledge-Based recommender systems, demographic
recommender systems, hybrid and ensemble-based recommender systems, evaluation of
recommender systems, etc.

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, a student should:

Sl. Outcome Mapping to


No. POs
1. To learn the goal and applicability of recommendation PO4, PO5
system in various fields.
2. To acquire knowledge of basics of content based PO2, PO3
recommendation system.

3. To learn various types of memory based collaborative PO2, PO3


recommendation techniques.
4. To gain knowledge of model based collaborative filtering PO2, PO3
techniques used in recommendation system.
5. To develop skills of ensemble and hybrid recommendation PO2, PO3
systems.
6. Understanding of the evaluation of the recommendation PO2, PO3
system.
UNIT I: Lecture: 1
Recommender Systems Function, Recommendation Techniques, Recommender Systems
as a Multi-Desciplinary Field,Challenges.

UNIT II: Lecture: 12


Basic Components of Content-Based Systems, Preprocessing and Feature Extraction,
Learning User Profiles and Filtering, Nearest Neighbor Classification.

UNIT III: Lecture: 12


User-Based collaborative filtering, Similarity Function Variants, Variants of the Prediction
Function, Item-Based Collaborative filtering, Comparing User-Based and Item-Based
Methods, Strengths and Weaknesses of Neighborhood-Based Methods.

UNIT IV: Lecture: 8


Rule-Based Collaborative Filtering, Association Rules, Naive Bayes Collaborative
Filtering, Neural Network, Singular Value Decomposition, Stochastic Gradient Descent,
Regularization.

UNIT V: Lecture: 5
Weighted Hybrids, Switching Hybrids, Cascade Hybrids, Feature Augmentation Hybrids,
Meta-Level Hybrids, Feature Combination Hybrids.

UNIT VI: Lecture: 5


General Goals of Evaluation Design: Accuracy, Coverage, Confidence and Trust, Novelty,
Serendipity, Diversity, Scalability, Segmenting the Ratings for Training and Testing,
Accuracy Metrics in Offline Evaluation.

Text/Reference Books
1. Recommender Systems: The Textbook. Charu C. Aggarwal, Springer.
2. Recommender Systems Handbook. Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira,
Paul B. Kantor, Springer.

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