In this blog, I will follow Recommendations in TensorFlow: Create the Model and study basic yet powerful recommendation algorithm, collaborative filtering using tensorflow version 1.
What you learn
- collaborative filtering
- Weighted alternating least squares (WALS) method
- tensorflow (v1.15.0)
In particular, this blog will show that the WALS method is pretty sensitive to the choice of weights (linear weights v.s. log weights vs uniform weights). I will use movieLens 100k
TensorFlow newbie creates a neural net with a negative log likelihood as a loss
In this blog, I will create a deep learning model that uses the negative log-likelihood of Gaussian distribution as a loss. For this purpose, I will use Tensorflow.
Why not Keras?ΒΆ
Keras has been my first-choice deep learning framework in the last 1 year. However, if you want to create personal loss functions or layers, Keras requires to use backend functions written in either TensorFlow or Theano. As the negative log-likelihood of Gaussian distribution is not one of the available loss in Keras, I need to implement it in Tensorflow which is often my backend. So this motivated me to learn Tensorflow and write everything in Tensorflow rather than mixing up two frameworks.