how do I output the predict results only in the testset

[danyang-liu]

I use BPR. I want to get the predict results for the u-i pairs in testset. But the results in ./result/ is the top_n item_rating for these users, not the items I want to predict.

[SunYatong]

After training, You can run the predict(int userIdx, itemIdx) function with the testMatrix.

    // after training
    for (MatrixEntry me : testMatrix) {
        int userIdx = me.row(); // user
        int itemIdx = me.column(); // item
        double predictRating = predict(userIdx, itemIdx);
    }

[ran88dom99]

Can predict() be run form command line?

[danyang-liu]

Hi SunYatong: Thanks, I will try.

[mvijaikumar]

Can we predict values for a test set from the command line?

[mvijaikumar]

Can we predict values for a test set from the command line? That is, instead of storing predicted values for training data or top-N values among the whole item set (in case of ranking based recommendation algorithm), can we store predicted values of a given test set from command line?

[SunYatong]

@mvijaikumar Command line doesn't support this. You can denote the test set before training with TestSetSplitter, and add the code after training.

    // after training
    for (MatrixEntry me : testMatrix) {
        int userIdx = me.row(); // user
        int itemIdx = me.column(); // item
        double predictRating = predict(userIdx, itemIdx);
    }

[mvijaikumar]

@SunYatong Thank you for your response. I am facing a peculiar problem in doing so as described above. If (userid, itemid) pair is not a part of a training set, and part of a test set (for obvious reason), testMatrix does not contain that pair.

I tested this on PMFRecommender. I could not understand why it is happening. Can you help me out?

[SunYatong]

So you want to get the prediction of arbitrary user-item pairs? @mvijaikumar

[mvijaikumar]

I want to predict rating for user and item that is part of training set, however, the exact pair is not a part of training set. That is, user is part of training set, itme is part of training set.

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So you want to get the prediction of arbitrary user-item pairs?

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[mvijaikumar]

I want to predict rating for user and item that is part of training set, however, the exact pair is not a part of training set. That is, user is part of training set, item is part of training set.

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So you want to get the prediction of arbitrary user-item pairs?

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[SunYatong]

So you do want to get the prediction of arbitrary user-item pairs... @mvijaikumar

Just use

 predict(userIdx, itemIdx)