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prerequisites
intermediate Python data science libraries • intermediate machine learning, intermediate recommender system experience (specifically Two Towers) • basics of developing an ML pipeline • intermediate TensorFlow 2.x
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split a single recommendation system to two essential parts, retrieval and ranking, using TensorFlow Recommenders • understand what Feature Stores are and how to use them
Shaked Zychlinski
1 week · 4-6 hours per week · ADVANCED
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Real-world recommendation systems work with millions of users and billions of items. To handle this massive scale, recommendation systems tend to be divided into two types of models (retrieval and ranking), running one after the other, narrowing down the set of items each time. In this liveProject, you’ll implement a retrieval model using TensorFlow Recommenders, combine it with a ranking model, then create a fully functional pipeline going through both models, using a Feature Store. Finally, you’ll explore the scenario where you can’t (or choose not to) run both retrieval and ranking models online in real-time, leveraging the Feature Store once more to use the retrieval model offline.

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project author

Shaked Zychlinski

Shaked is currently leading the recommendation research group and company’s recommendations efforts at Lightricks, developing the company's RS algorithms from the ground up. Prior to this, he worked at and led projects at the Algo group of Taboola, one of the largest content recommendation companies in the world. He is a featured writer on Towards Data Science, with hundreds of reads each day. He has also developed the Dython library for Python, with 26k (and counting) downloads a month.

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This liveProject is for data scientists with theoretical knowledge of machine learning, deep learning, and recommender systems who want to take the next step in their career. To begin these liveProjects you will need to be familiar with the following:


TOOLS
  • Intermediate Python (NumPy, pandas, Matplotlib)
  • Intermediate scikit-learn
  • Basics of TensorFlow 2.x (Keras interface)
  • TensorFlow Recommenders (retrieval and ranking models)
TECHNIQUES
  • Basic linear algebra (vectors, spaces, matrix transformations)
  • Define, train, and evaluate models

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