Convergence issues

[erlebach]

I read in the documentation:

"If you run into overflow errors then decrease the feature and/or sample-weight magnitudes and try upping beta, especially if you have a small number of dense user-features and/or item-features."

I di not understand the meaning of decreasing the weight magnitudes. Currently, all weights are set to 1. Are you suggesting setting them to say, 0.5, the same for all rows? But in that case, there will be no difference.

Default value of beta is set to 0.1. How high do you recommend raising it?

Thanks.