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Hybrid Recommender: Adding new users and items to an existing model

Open sgaseretto opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

Does LightFM support a way to initialize and add embeddings for new users and items to an existing (pre-trained) model, so that we don't lose all the pretrained embeddings and also being able to index those new users and items, without having to build and train a completely new model from scratch.

sgaseretto avatar Jun 28 '21 18:06 sgaseretto

...Or, to reframe the question, does LightFM support (or will support) incremental training, that is, training a model on an (unbounded) stream of events, such that at every step, the model can be used for predictions, even before the training completes (possibly never).

mwojnars avatar Oct 25 '21 10:10 mwojnars