Semester Project Ideas for Recommender Systems - Please read the description

Recommender Systems Course Project

Good-day everyone. I am an undergrad student and am currently taking a course on Recommender Systems. The course requires a mandatory project that can fall into one of the following four categories:

1. Innovative Improvement

  • Propose an improvement to an existing method.

  • Select a method from a top-tier conference paper (2023 or newer).

  • Implement both the original method and your proposed improvement.

  • Conduct experiments using all datasets from the original paper and compare the results.

  • The complexity of the original method may vary, and the improvement can be intricate or simple.

  • The scope of work, workload, and team size should be justified accordingly.

2. Comparative Analysis of Three or more Methods

  • Critically and empirically evaluate three or more well-known methods that solve the same problem.

  • Implement all three methods and perform a comparative experimental analysis.

  • Highlight key differences, strengths, and limitations of each method.

  • Provide well-supported observations and insights based on your findings.

3. Broad Comparative Evaluation

  • Evaluate five or more established methods for a given problem.

  • Implement these methods and demonstrate results across multiple datasets.

  • A thorough comparative analysis of performance will be appreciated.

4. Term Paper

  • Select a topic and write a comprehensive term paper by reviewing and analyzing all major published results in the field.

I want to work on the 1st and specifically on Graph based models but I don’t know how to start. As for the knowlege to work on Graph ML I’ve been intrested in them so I learnt about them. I would like to someone to point me right direction and as the deadline is on 25th Feb I would like to finalize the project idea so that I can work on it.

Thank you for your time to read this and I would like to request to help me in this.

Thank you everyone.