README.md

transformer-recommender

A recommender based on language modeling with a GPT like model

To-do's

• Test batching with padding for each user sequence
• Test bigger and smaller block sizes
• Non-trainable positional embeddings

Results

Experiment 1

Fixed block size.

Loss: custom_distance_weighted_loss_with_mask

0.58M parameters

batch_size = 64
n_embed = 64
block_size = 512
dropout = 0.1
n_layer = 1
n_head = 1
learning_rate = 3e-4
mask_movies = True

n_steps = 3895

Train Loss: 0.11226 Final Test RMSE: 1.1789 Min Test RMSE: 1.0

Experiment 2

Same as Experiment 1

learning_rate = 1e-3

Train Loss: 0.1134 Final Test RMSE: 1.2020 Min Test RMSE: 1.06

Experiment 3

Same as 2

LR shedule

Train Loss: 0.11349 Final Test RMSE: 1.192484 Min Test RMSE: 0.979795