The Variational Autoencoder for collaborative filtering focuses on providing recommendations. This is an optimized implementation.
The following section lists the requirements that you need to meet in order to start training the VAE-CF model.
Requirements
This repository contains Dockerfile which extends the Tensorflow NGC container and encapsulates some dependencies. Aside from these dependencies, ensure you have the following components:
- NVIDIA Docker
- TensorFlow-1 20.06+ NGC container
- Supported GPUs:
For more information about how to get started with NGC containers, see the following sections from the NVIDIA GPU Cloud Documentation and the Deep Learning Documentation:
- Getting Started Using NVIDIA GPU Cloud
- Accessing And Pulling From The NGC Container Registry
- Running TensorFlow
For those unable to use the TensorFlow NGC container, to set up the required environment or create your own container, see the versioned NVIDIA Container Support Matrix.