arek-paterek.com/book/
is a new 195-page monograph by A. Paterek.
It extends the earlier 2007 four-page publication (in KDD Cup 2007 workshop) "Improving singular value decomposition for collaborative filtering", now cited over 200 times.
The author placed 43rd in the Netflix Prize, earlier reaching 3-5th place in the first year of the competition, and for a brief moment reaching 2nd place in a two-person team, one day before the first Progress Prize in 2007, hopefully scaring a bit the top teams.
He developed the recommender systems in Movie Galaxy (arek-paterek.com/movie-galaxy/) and in 5000 Best Movies and TV Series (5000best.com/movies/).
The e-book is an attempt to extensively summarize and comment the Netflix Prize solutions, and discusses how to adapt the resulting prediction algorithms to produce good quality personalized recommendations.
The e-book is available at arek-paterek.com/book/
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