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INF553 Assignment 3- MinHash and Locality Sensitive Hashing Solved

In Assignment 3, you will complete two tasks. The goal is to let you be familiar with MinHash, Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH), and different types of collaborative-filtering recommendation systems. The dataset you are going to play with is a subset from the Yelp dataset (https://www.yelp.com/dataset) used in the previous assignments.

 

1. Assignment Requirements
2.1 Programming Language and Library Requirements

a.          You must use Python to implement all tasks. You can only use standard Python libraries (i.e., external libraries like Numpy or Pandas are not allowed). There will be a 10% bonus for each task (or case) if you also submit a Scala implementation and both your Python and Scala implementations are correct.

b.          You are required to only use the Spark RDD to understand Spark operations. You will not receive any point if you use Spark DataFrame or DataSet.

 

2.2 Programming Environment

We will use Python 3.6, Scala 2.11, and Spark 2.3.3 to test your code. There will be a 20% penalty if we cannot run your code due to the library version inconsistency.

 

2.3 Write your own code

Do not share your code with other students!!

We will combine all the code we can find from the Web (e.g., GitHub) as well as other students’ code from this and other (previous) sections for plagiarism detection. We will report all the detected plagiarism.

 

2.4 What you need to turn in

Your submission must be a zip file with the naming convention: firstname_lastname_hw3.zip (all lowercase, e.g., yijun_lin_hw3.zip). You should pack the following required (and optional) files in a folder named firstname_lastname_hw3 (all lowercase, e.g., yijun_lin_hw3) in the zip file (Figure 1, only the files in the red boxes are required to submit):

a. [REQUIRED] two Python scripts containing the main function, named:

firstname_lastname_task1.py, firstname_lastname_task2.py

b1. [OPTIONAL] two Scala scripts containing the main function, named:

firstname_lastname_task1.scala, firstname_lastname_task2.scala

b2. [OPTIONAL] one Jar package, named:

firstname_lastname_hw3.jar
c.          [OPTIONAL] You can include other scripts to support your programs (e.g., callable functions), but you need to make sure after unzipping, they are all in the same folder “firstname_lastname_hw3”.



d.          You don’t need to include any result. We will grade your code using our testing data. Our testing data will be in the same format as the validation dataset. Figure 1: The folder structure after your submission file is unzipped.

 

2. Yelp Data
We generated the following two datasets from the original Yelp review dataset with some filters such as the condition: “state” == “CA”. We randomly took 60% of the data as the training dataset, 20% of the data as the validation dataset, and 20% of the data as the testing dataset.

a. yelp_train.csv: the training data, which only include the columns: user_id, business_id, and stars.

b. yelp_val.csv: the validation data, which are in the same format as training data.

c. We do not share the testing dataset.

 

3. Tasks
3.1Task1: Jaccard based LSH (4 points)
In this task, you will implement the Locality Sensitive Hashing algorithm with Jaccard similarity using yelp_train.csv. You can refer to sections 3.3 – 3.5 of the Mining of Massive Datasets book.

In this task, we focus on the “0 or 1” ratings rather than the actual ratings/stars from the users. Specifically, if a user has rated a business, the user’s contribution in the characteristic matrix is 1. If the user hasn’t rated the business, the contribution is 0. You need to identify similar businesses whose similarity = 0.5.

You can define any collection of hash functions that you think would result in a consistent permutation of the row entries of the characteristic matrix. Some potential hash functions are:

                                                        f(x)= (ax + b) % m        or   f(x) = ((ax + b) % p) % m
where p is any prime number and m is the number of bins. You can use any combination for the parameters (a, b, p, and m) in your implementation.

After you have defined all the hashing functions, you will build the signature matrix. Then you will divide the matrix into b bands with r rows each, where b x r = n (n is the number of hash functions). You should carefully select a good combination of b and r in your implementation. Remember that two items are a candidate pair if their signatures are identical in at least one band.

Your final results will be the candidate pairs whose original Jaccard similarity is = 0.5. You need to write the final results into a CSV file according to the output format below.

Example of Jaccard Similarity:

                                                            user1                               user2                               user3                               user4

business1
0
1
1
1
business2
0
1
0
0
                                    Ja
ccard Similarity (business1, business2) = #intersection / #union = 1/3
 
 

Input format: (we will use the following command to execute your code)

 

 

Param: input_file_name: the name of the input file (e.g., yelp_train.csv), including the file path. Param:

output_file_name: the name of the output CSV file, including the file path.

 

Output format:

IMPORTANT: Please strictly follow the output format since your code will be graded automatically. We will not regrade on formatting issues.

a. The output file is a CSV file, containing all business pairs you have found. The header is “business_id_1, business_id_2, similarity”. Each pair itself must be in the alphabetical order. The entire file also needs to be in the alphabetical order. There is no requirement for the number of decimals for the similarity value. Please refer to the format in Figure 2.



Figure 2: a CSV output example for task1

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