As part of the report I’m including a section on the intuition behind matrix factorisation. Since I’m not the biggest fan of maths (it’s fascinating when it works but basically I suck at it) I want a more illustrative example. Prefering code over mathematical equations I decided to include some pseudo-code.
However, I’m not every happy with it. Too many abbreviations and complicated syntax. Nick suggested making fluffy functions out of the upm[u,:] parts since they literally translate to “u’th row of matrix upm”.
Alternatively I could just stick to the original python code.
Hopefully with the examples I’ve provided it should be roughly understandable what one can achieve with matrix factorisation: approximating unknown values.