#README.md

Overview

A hybrid recommender combining Collaborative Filtering (SVD) and Content-Based (TF-IDF genres) approaches. Includes training pipeline, evaluation, and a Flask API for serving recommendations

Features

• SVD-based collaborative filtering (Surprise)
• TF-IDF content-based model on genres
• Weighted hybrid blending
• Flask API: /recommend?user_id=1&k=10&alpha=0.8

Dataset

MovieLens 100k (put u.data and u.item in data/)

Install

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt