Two-Tower Recommendation Demo

Interactive movie recommender using a two-tower (dual encoder) model trained on MovieLens 25M.

Setup

make install

TMDB Posters

Get a free API key at themoviedb.org/settings/api and add it to .env:

TMDB_API_KEY=your_key_here

Run

make train    # train model (~5 min)
make posters  # fetch poster images (~8 min, requires TMDB key)
make app      # launch Streamlit app