Surprise

Overview

Surprise is a Python
scikit building and analyzing
recommender systems that deal with explicit rating data.

Surprise was designed with the
following purposes in mind:

• Give users perfect control over their experiments. To this end, a strong
  emphasis is laid on
  documentation, which we
  have tried to make as clear and precise as possible by pointing out every
  detail of the algorithms.
• Alleviate the pain of Dataset
  handling.
  Users can use both built-in datasets
  (Movielens,
  Jester), and their own custom
  datasets.
• Provide various ready-to-use prediction
  algorithms
  such as baseline
  algorithms,
  neighborhood
  methods, matrix
  factorization-based (
  SVD,
  PMF,
  SVD++,
  NMF),
  and many
  others.
  Also, various similarity
  measures
  (cosine, MSD, pearson...) are built-in.
• Make it easy to implement new algorithm
  ideas.
• Provide tools to evaluate,
  analyse
  and
  compare
  the algorithms performance. Cross-validation procedures can be run very
  easily using powerful CV iterators (inspired by
  scikit-learn excellent tools), as well as
  exhaustive search over a set of
  parameters.

The name SurPRISE (roughly :) ) stands for Simple Python RecommendatIon
System Engine.

Please note that surprise does not support implicit ratings or content-based
information.

Getting started, example

Here is a simple example showing how you can (down)load a dataset, split it for
5-fold cross-validation, and compute the MAE and RMSE of the
SVD
algorithm.

from surprise import SVD
from surprise import Dataset
from surprise.model_selection import cross_validate

# Load the movielens-100k dataset (download it if needed).
data = Dataset.load_builtin('ml-100k')

# Use the famous SVD algorithm.
algo = SVD()

# Run 5-fold cross-validation and print results.
cross_validate(algo, data, measures=['RMSE', 'MAE'], cv=5, verbose=True)

Output:

Evaluating RMSE, MAE of algorithm SVD on 5 split(s).

            Fold 1  Fold 2  Fold 3  Fold 4  Fold 5  Mean    Std
RMSE        0.9311  0.9370  0.9320  0.9317  0.9391  0.9342  0.0032
MAE         0.7350  0.7375  0.7341  0.7342  0.7375  0.7357  0.0015
Fit time    6.53    7.11    7.23    7.15    3.99    6.40    1.23
Test time   0.26    0.26    0.25    0.15    0.13    0.21    0.06

Surprise can do much more (e.g,
GridSearchCV)!
You'll find more usage
examples in the
documentation .

Benchmarks

Here are the average RMSE, MAE and total execution time of various algorithms
(with their default parameters) on a 5-fold cross-validation procedure. The
datasets are the Movielens 100k and
1M datasets. The folds are the same for all the algorithms. All experiments are
run on a notebook with Intel Core i5 7th gen (2.5 GHz) and 8Go RAM. The code
for generating these tables can be found in the benchmark
example., Movielens 100k, RMSE, MAE, Time, :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, -------:, ------:, :--------, SVD, 0.934, 0.737, 0:00:11, SVD++, 0.92, 0.722, 0:09:03, NMF, 0.963, 0.758, 0:00:15, Slope One, 0.946, 0.743, 0:00:08, k-NN, 0.98, 0.774, 0:00:10, Centered k-NN, 0.951, 0.749, 0:00:10, k-NN Baseline, 0.931, 0.733, 0:00:12, Co-Clustering, 0.963, 0.753, 0:00:03, Baseline, 0.944, 0.748, 0:00:01, Random, 1.514, 1.215, 0:00:01, Movielens 1M, RMSE, MAE, Time, :---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------, -------:, ------:, :--------, SVD, 0.873, 0.686, 0:02:13, SVD++, 0.862, 0.673, 2:54:19, NMF, 0.916, 0.724, 0:02:31, Slope One, 0.907, 0.715, 0:02:31, k-NN, 0.923, 0.727, 0:05:27, Centered k-NN, 0.929, 0.738, 0:05:43, k-NN Baseline, 0.895, 0.706, 0:05:55, Co-Clustering, 0.915, 0.717, 0:00:31, Baseline, 0.909, 0.719, 0:00:19, Random, 1.504, 1.206, 0:00:19, Installation

With pip (you'll need numpy, and a C compiler. Windows
users might prefer using conda):

$ pip install numpy
$ pip install scikit-surprise

With conda:

$ conda install -c conda-forge scikit-surprise

For the latest version, you can also clone the repo and build the source
(you'll first need Cython and
numpy):

$ pip install numpy cython
$ git clone https://github.com/NicolasHug/surprise.git
$ cd surprise
$ python setup.py install

License

This project is licensed under the BSD
3-Clause license, so it can be
used for pretty much everything, including commercial applications. Please let
us know how Surprise is useful to you!

Here is a Bibtex entry if you ever need to cite Surprise in a research paper
(please keep us posted, we would love to know if Surprise was helpful to you):

@Misc{Surprise,
author =   {Hug, Nicolas},
title =    { {S}urprise, a {P}ython library for recommender systems},
howpublished = {\url{http://surpriselib.com}},
year = {2017}
}

Contributors

The following persons have contributed to Surprise:

caoyi, Олег Демиденко, Charles-Emmanuel Dias, dmamylin, Lauriane Ducasse,
Marc Feger, franckjay, Lukas Galke, Pierre-François Gimenez, Zachary
Glassman, Nicolas Hug, Janniks, Doruk Kilitcioglu, Ravi Raju Krishna, Hengji
Liu, Maher Malaeb, Manoj K, Naturale0, nju-luke, Jay Qi, Skywhat, David
Stevens, Victor Wang, Mike Lee Williams, Jay Wong, Chenchen Xu, YaoZh1918.

Thanks a lot :) !

Development Status

Starting from version 1.1.0 (September 19), we will only maintain the
package and provide bugfixes. No new features will be considered.

For bugs, issues or questions about Surprise,
please use the GitHub project page.
Please don't send emails (we will not answer).