User Guide

Welcome to the LensKit user guide! These documents provide a topical guide to how to use LensKit for research, education, and other purposes.

Preliminaries

• Installing LensKit
• Getting Started
• Examples

Fundamentals

• Datasets
• Item Lists and Collections
• Queries
• Recommendation Pipelines

Components

• Component Conventions

Experiments

• Splitting Data
• Batch-Running Pipelines
• Evaluating Recommender Output
• Documenting Experiments

Support Code

• Logging and Progress Reporting
• Parallel Processing

Tips and Help

• Migrating from LensKit 0.x
• Performance Tips
• Algorithm Implementation Tips