691RS: Introduction to Recommender Systems (Spring, 2017)

Time: Fri, 10:10 - 12:10

Location: CS 140

Instructor

Yongfeng Zhang (yongfeng@cs.umass.edu)

Office: CS 364

Office hour: Thu, 3pm–5pm

Prerequisites

Programming skills (required, any language is accepted, preferably java or python)
Basic statistics and machine learning (recommended)

Textbook

[RS] - Francesco Ricci, Lior Rokach, Bracha Shapira, and Paul B. Kantor Editors. Recommender Systems Handbook. Springer, 2011. (PDF version is publicly available online)

Links

Grading

Oral paper reading report, 20min report + 5min QA for each group (30%)
Written paper review, within 1 page (20%)
Project Proposal (bonus maximum 5)
Oral project report, 20min report+5min QA for each group (30%)
Written project report and code (20%)

Papers & Project

Tentative Schedule

Class#	Date	Topic	Reminder	Slides
1	1/27, Fri	Introduction (Chap 1) Collaborative Filtering (Chap 4)		Lecture 1 slides
2	2/3, Fri	Matrix Factorization (Chap 4 & 5)		Lecture 2 slides
-	2/6, Mon		Last day to add or drop any class with no record
3	2/10, Fri	Invited Talk: Clinical Text Understanding and Decision Support (by Carsten Eickhoff)	10:00 a.m. in CS 151
-	2/11-2/16		Build up your teams for paper reading and project
4	2/17, Fri	Project Description Content-based Recommendation (Chap 3) Advanced Topics - Explainable Recommendation		Lecture 4 slides
-	2/18-2/23		Period for paper bidding
5	2/24, Fri	Hybrid recommendation approaches (Chap 22) Evaluating Recommender Systems (Chap 8) Advanced Topics - Dynamic Recommendation		Lecture 5 slides
6	3/3, Fri	Explanations in Recommender Systems (Chap 15) Case Study Advanced Topics - Economic Recommendation		Lecture 6 slides
-	3/6, Mon		Last day to Drop with "DR" – Graduate
-	3/8, Wed		Mid-Semester Date (Last day to Drop with "W" and select 'P/F'- Undergraduate, Stockbridge, Continuing Education)
7	3/10, Fri	Project Proposal Paper reading report: Group 1-2
8	3/24, Fri	Paper reading report: Group 3-6
9	3/31, Fri	Paper reading report: Group 7-10
10	4/7, Fri	Paper reading report: Group 11-14
11	4/14, Fri	Project report: Group 1-5
12	4/21, Fri	Project report: Group 6-10
13	4/28, Fri	Project report: Group 11-14 Course Summary

Last update: 2017/02/26