Source code for cornac.explainer.exp_nemf

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from .explainer import Explainer


[docs] class Exp_NEMF(Explainer): """Explainer for Personalised novel and explainable matrix factorisation. Explains by E matrix in the paper. Parameters ---------- rec_model: object, recommender model The recommender model to be explained. dataset: object, dataset The dataset object that is used to explain. name: string, optional, default: 'Exp_NEMF' References ---------- [1] L. Coba, P. Symeonidis, and M. Zanker, “Personalised novel and explainable matrix factorisation,” Data & Knowledge Engineering, vol. 122, pp. 142-158, Jul. 2019, doi: 10.1016/j.datak.2019.06.003. """ def __init__(self, rec_model, dataset, name="Exp_NEMF"): super().__init__(name=name, rec_model=rec_model, dataset=dataset)
[docs] def explain_one_recommendation_to_user(self, user_id, item_id, **kwargs): """Provide explanation for one user and one item Parameters ---------- user_id: str One user's id. item_id: str One item's id. Returns ------- explanations: float The W matrix value of the user and item. """ if self.model is None: raise NotImplementedError("The model is None.") if not hasattr(self.model, "edge_weight_matrix"): raise AttributeError("The explainer does not support this recommender.") if self.model.edge_weight_matrix is None: raise NotImplementedError("The model is not trained yet.") uir_df = pd.DataFrame( np.array(self.dataset.uir_tuple).T, columns=["user", "item", "rating"] ) uir_df["user"] = uir_df["user"].astype(int) uir_df["item"] = uir_df["item"].astype(int) if user_id not in self.dataset.uid_map: return 0 if item_id not in self.dataset.iid_map: return 0 user_idx = self.dataset.uid_map[user_id] item_idx = self.dataset.iid_map[item_id] if self.model.is_unknown_user(user_idx): return 0 if self.model.is_unknown_item(item_idx): return 0 W = self.model.edge_weight_matrix explanation = W[user_idx, item_idx] return explanation