Library for factorization machines
forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/libfm
Factorization machines (FM) are a generic approach that allows to mimic most factorization models by feature engineering. This way, factorization machines combine the generality of feature engineering with the superiority of factorization models in estimating interactions between categorical variables of large domain. libFM is a software implementation for factorization machines that features stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and alternating least squares (ALS) optimization as well as Bayesian inference using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC).
libFM has been tested with the GNU compiler collection and GNU make. libFM and the tools can be compiled with
make all
Please see the libFM 1.4.2 manual for details about how to use libFM.
Please see the libFM - Manual for the BPR extension for details about how to use the BPR extension.
If you have questions, please visit the forum.