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  1. Mahout
  2. MAHOUT-628

Add an option to prune away users with less than a given number of preferences to ItemSimilarityJob and RecommenderJob

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.5
    • 0.5
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    Description

      Some real-world datasets (especially those created from implicit feedback) might include users with only a tiny number of preferences (like one-time-visitors only viewing a single item) that a users of ItemSimilarityJob or RecommenderJob might want to prune away. I added a new parameter "minPrefsPerUser" that makes those jobs throw out users with less than a given number of preferences. It is per default set to 1 so that the input data stays untouched.

      It's just a small patch to make those jobs more usable in real-world scenarios.

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        1. MAHOUT-628.patch
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          Sebastian Schelter

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