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    2 years ago

    This is really nice. I am working on a book recommendation system myself as a hobby project too, and your website is really cool. May I ask you what stack do you use? Also, for the ML part, why did you choose this model? What I dislike with NN is that they provide black box recommendations while users would like to understand WHY results are recommended, which can be done with simpler heuristics (that are explainable). Let’s keep in touch !

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      2 years ago

      May I ask you what stack do you use?

      Stack for which part (model training, front-end, back-end or something else)? Anyway, i find Torch, TorchServe, PostgreSQL and NextJS are vital part of the project.

      Also, for the ML part, why did you choose this model?

      Do you mean GCE-GNN as smart recommender? If so, these are primary reasons (copied from SRec blog page),

      1. User-free model, but utilize other user’s sequence during prediction. By user-free model, I mean the model doesn’t use user ID/representation on prediction. It’s a required feature for SRec recommender system since all visitor is anonymous.
      2. Authors of GCE-GNN provide source code of the model. This saves some time to re-implement GCE-GNN or verify different GCE-GNN implementations (such as RecBole-GNN) by myself.
      3. GCE-GNN model architecture/framework is relatively easy to understand.

      What I dislike with NN is that they provide black box recommendations while users would like to understand WHY results are recommended

      As user, sometimes i also feel this. That’s why i also create recommendation by game tags which show some explanation.