tfrs.models.Model

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Base model for TFRS models.

tfrs.models.Model(
    *args, **kwargs
)

Used in the notebooks

Many recommender models are relatively complex, and do not neatly fit into supervised or unsupervised paradigms. This base class makes it easy to define custom training and test losses for such complex models.

This is done by asking the user to implement the following methods:

• __init__ to set up your model. Variable, task, loss, and metric initialization should go here.
• compute_loss to define the training loss. The method takes as input the raw features passed into the model, and returns a loss tensor for training. As part of doing so, it should also update the model's metrics.
• [Optional] call to define how the model computes its predictions. This is not always necessary: for example, two-tower retrieval models have two well-defined submodels whose call methods are normally used directly.

Note that this base class is a thin conveniece wrapper for tf.keras.Model, and equivalent functionality can easily be achieved by overriding the train_step and test_step methods of a plain Keras model. Doing so also makes it easy to build even more complex training mechanisms, such as the use of different optimizers for different variables, or manipulating gradients.

Keras has an excellent tutorial on how to do this here.

Methods

call

call(
    inputs, training=None, mask=None
)

Calls the model on new inputs and returns the outputs as tensors.

In this case call() just reapplies all ops in the graph to the new inputs (e.g. build a new computational graph from the provided inputs).