The program assumes that python's surprise library is installed. If not, please run
pip3 install surprise
All the relevant kaggle-competition data should be downloaded and stored here.
To run the program, issue python svd.pp to begin training the ensemble of 50 SVD models on the raw data.
This may take awhile as each of the models is trained for 35 epochs.
The python surprise package works directly with the raw {userId, movieId, rating} tuples. There was no need to preprocess the data or to incorporate any additional features into training our models.