DRecPy 0.2.2

Deep Recommenders with Python: A Python framework for building Deep Learning based Recommender Systems

DRecPy: Deep Recommenders with Python

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Getting Started
4. Implemented Models
5. Benchmarks
6. License
7. Contributors
8. Development Status

Introduction

DRecPy is a Python framework that makes building deep learning based recommender systems easier, by making available various tools to develop and test new models.

The main key features DRecPy provides are listed bellow:

• Support for in-memory and out-of-memory data sets, by using an intermediary data structure called InteractionDataset.
• Auto Internal to raw id conversion: a mapping from raw to internal identifiers is automatically built, so that datasets containing string ids or non-contiguous numeric ids are supported by all recommenders.
• Support for multi-column data sets, i.e. not being limited to (user, item, rating) triples, but also supporting other columns such as timestamp, session, location, etc.
• Well defined workflow for model building for developing deep learning-based recommenders (while also supporting non-deep learning-based recommenders).
• Support for epoch callbacks using custom functions, whose results are logged and displayed in a plot at the end of model training.
• Early stopping support using custom functions that can make use of previous epoch callback results or model loss values.
• Data set splitting techniques adjusted for the distinct nature of data sets dedicated for recommender systems.
• Sampling techniques for point based and list based models.
• Evaluation processes for predictive models, as well as for learn-to-rank models.
• Automatic progress logging and plot generation for loss values during model training, as well as test scores during model evaluation.
• All methods with stochastic factors receive a seed parameter, in order to allow result reproducibility.

For more information about the framework and its components, please visit the documentation page.

Here's a brief overview of the general call workflow for every recommender:

If you use DRecPy for any published research, we'd appreciate a citation:

Fábio Colaço, Márcia Barros, and Francisco M. Couto. 2020. DRecPy: A Python Framework for Developing Deep Learning-Based Recommenders. In Fourteenth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 675–680. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3383313.3418483

Installation

With pip:

$ pip install drecpy

If you can't get the latest version from PyPi:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/fabioiuri/DRecPy

Or directly by cloning the Git repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/fabioiuri/DRecPy
$ cd DRecPy
$ python setup.py install

Update Version

If you want to update to the newest DRecPy version, use:

$ pip install drecpy --upgrade

Getting Started

For quick guides and examples on how to implement a new recommender, or extend existing ones, please check the documentation page on creating novel recommenders.

Here's an example script using one of the implemented recommenders (CDAE), to train, with a validation set, and evaluate its ranking performance on the MovieLens 100k data set.

from DRecPy.Recommender import CDAE
from DRecPy.Recommender.EarlyStopping import MaxValidationValueRule
from DRecPy.Dataset import get_train_dataset
from DRecPy.Dataset import get_test_dataset
from DRecPy.Evaluation.Processes import ranking_evaluation
from DRecPy.Evaluation.Splits import leave_k_out
from DRecPy.Evaluation.Metrics import NDCG
from DRecPy.Evaluation.Metrics import HitRatio
from DRecPy.Evaluation.Metrics import Precision
import time


ds_train = get_train_dataset('ml-100k')
ds_test = get_test_dataset('ml-100k')
ds_train, ds_val = leave_k_out(ds_train, k=1, min_user_interactions=10, seed=0)


def epoch_callback_fn(model):
    return {'val_' + metric: v for metric, v in
            ranking_evaluation(model, ds_val, n_pos_interactions=1, n_neg_interactions=100,
                               generate_negative_pairs=True, k=10, verbose=False, seed=10,
                               metrics=[HitRatio(), NDCG()]).items()}


start_train = time.time()
cdae = CDAE(hidden_factors=50, corruption_level=0.2, loss='bce', seed=10)
cdae.fit(ds_train, learning_rate=0.001, reg_rate=0.001, epochs=100, batch_size=64, neg_ratio=5,
         epoch_callback_fn=epoch_callback_fn, epoch_callback_freq=10,
         early_stopping_rule=MaxValidationValueRule('val_HitRatio'), early_stopping_freq=10)
print("Training took", time.time() - start_train)

print(ranking_evaluation(cdae, ds_test, k=[1, 5, 10], novelty=True, n_pos_interactions=1,
                         n_neg_interactions=100, generate_negative_pairs=True, seed=10,
                         metrics=[HitRatio(), NDCG(), Precision()], max_concurrent_threads=4, verbose=True))

Output:

Creating user split tasks: 100%|██████████| 943/943 [00:00<00:00, 4704.11it/s]
Splitting dataset: 100%|██████████| 943/943 [00:03<00:00, 296.04it/s]

[2020-09-02 00:13:37,764] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Max. interaction value: 5
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,764] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Min. interaction value: 0
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,764] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Interaction threshold value: 0.001
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,764] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Number of unique users: 943
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,765] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Number of unique items: 1680
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,765] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Number of training points: 89627
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,765] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Sparsity level: approx. 94.3426%
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,765] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Creating auxiliary structures...
[2020-09-02 00:13:37,833] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Number of registered trainable variables: 5
Fitting model... Epoch 100 Loss: 0.1882 | val_HitRatio@10: 0.5493 | val_NDCG@10: 0.3137 | MaxValidationValueRule best epoch: 80: 100%|██████████| 100/100 [15:05<00:00, 29.77s/it]
[2020-09-02 00:30:02,831] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Reverting network weights to epoch 80 due to the evaluation of the early stopping rule MaxValidationValueRule.
[2020-09-02 00:30:02,833] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Network weights reverted from epoch 100 to epoch 80.
[2020-09-02 00:30:02,979] (INFO) CDAE_CLOGGER: Model fitted.

Starting user evaluation tasks: 100%|██████████| 943/943 [00:00<00:00, 2454.84it/s]
Evaluating model ranking performance:  99%|█████████▊| 929/943 [02:16<00:02,  4.81it/s]

{'HitRatio@1': 0.1198, 'HitRatio@5': 0.3945, 'HitRatio@10': 0.5536, 'NDCG@1': 0.1198, 
'NDCG@5': 0.2588, 'NDCG@10': 0.3103, 'Precision@1': 0.1198, 'Precision@5': 0.0789, 'Precision@10': 0.0554}

Generated Plots:

• Training

• Evaluation

More quick and easy examples are available here.

Implemented Recommenders

Deep Learning-Based

Recommender Type	Name
Learn-to-rank	CDAE (Collaborative Denoising Auto-Encoder)
Learn-to-rank	DMF (Deep Matrix Factorization)
Sequential	Caser

Non-Deep Learning-Based

Recommender Type	Name
Predictive	User/Item KNN

Benchmarks

TODO

License

Check LICENCE.md.

Contributors

This work was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Francisco M. Couto, and during the initial development phase the project was financially supported by a FCT research scholarship UID/CEC/00408/2019, under the research institution LASIGE, from the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Public contribution is welcomed, and if you wish to contribute just open a PR or contect me [e-mail].

Development Status

Project in alpha stage.

Planned work:

• Wrap up missing documentation
• Implement more models
• Refine and clean unit tests

If you have any bugs to report or update suggestions, you can use DRecPy's github issues page or email me directly to [e-mail].