| drop.nonessential.matrices {cmfrec} | R Documentation |
Drop matrices that are not used for prediction
Description
Drops all the matrices in the model object which are not used for calculating new user factors (either warm or cold), such as the user biases or the item factors.
This is intended at decreasing memory usage in production systems which use this software for calculation of user factors or top-N recommendations.
Can additionally drop some of the precomputed matrices which are only taken in special circumstances such as when passing dense data with no missing values - however, predictions that would have otherwise used these matrices will become slower afterwards.
After dropping these non-essential matrices, it will not be possible anymore to call certain methods such as 'predict' or 'swap.users.and.items'. The methods which are intended to continue working afterwards are:
This method is only available for 'CMF' and 'CMF_implicit' model objects.
Usage
drop.nonessential.matrices(model, drop_precomputed = TRUE)
Arguments
model |
A model object as returned by CMF or CMF_implicit. |
drop_precomputed |
Whether to drop the less commonly used prediction matrices (see documentation above for more details). |
Details
After calling this function and reassigning the output to the original model object, one might need to call the garbage collector (by running 'gc()') before any of the freed memory is shown as available.
Value
The model object with the non-essential matrices dropped.