Fast Matrix Factorization for Recommendation Systems

Team Members: Zhewei Shi (zheweis), Weijie Chen (weijiec)

Project Webpage: https://zheweishi.github.io/15618-Project/

Proposal

Checkpoint

Final Report (pdf)

Project Schedule

Date	Goal
10/31	Submit Project Proposal
11/03	Background Study
11/10	Serial Implementation of ALS
11/17	Parallel Implementation of ALS
11/19	Project Intermediate Checkpoint Report Due
11/22	Further optimization of ALS (Zhewei Shi), Experiment of ALS on movieLens(Weijie Chen)
11/24	Serial Implementation of SGD (Both)
11/27	Parallel Impelementation of SGD (Both)
12/01	Experiments on MovieLens (Zhewei Shi), Analysis and further optimization (Weijie Chen)
12/03	Online Learning Paper Reading & background Search (Both)
12/08	Online Learning Exploration (implementation and experiments)
12/15	Wrap Up and Final Project Submission