Hello Lemmings,

I’ve been working on a new anime recommendation algorithm the past 4 months and now I pretty much have the algorithm done.

To test the accuracy of the algorithm, I am requesting any MyAnimeList user with 50+ completed animes to post their MyAnimeList username along with their overall top 3 genres in descending order. This will then be compared to what the algorithm guessed.

Thanks in advance.

  • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Are we talkimg mal genres which are lacking or any? I haven’t watched anime in a while but I’ve been a member since 07 and have watched hundreds of shows

    • asudox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Yes, MAL genres. The algorithm only uses those so I need your overall top 3 MAL genres in descending order. So the overall top 3 genres that you like the most. The first being your 1# favorite genre, the second one the 2# favorite genre and the third the 3# favorite genre.

      • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Well i was more asking if it uses the themes they have on their site, because out of the 18 genres action adventure and fantasy will clearly be the ones i chose and whats selected because of the shitty system they have. If they could go deeper and select out of themese that would be cool, but i doubt it would be helpful since they dont use many tags on mal.

        My mal is https://myanimelist.net/profile/evilchris

        • asudox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Great so, the guess for your animelist is:

          1. Action
          2. Fantasy
          3. Comedy

          Good enough I guess.

          • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            8 months ago

            Im actually suprised at comedy being number 3. I mightve misjudged my anime history.

        • asudox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          9 months ago

          Thanks. The algorithm does not use themes, just genres. Though I could make it include them as well easily. Anyway, these are your selections, correct?:

          1. Action
          2. Adventure
          3. Fantasy
          • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            9 months ago

            Yeah i wouldnt know which order since they are all interchangeable to me. I think using anilist which has a lot more tags instead of genres that are user recommended would be cooler, but also a lot more trouble I suspect.

            • asudox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Yeah well, the algorithm is built on MAL’s API responses so I would need to change alot to get it to work with anilist. I went with MAL not because the API is good (it’s not) but because it has a much bigger userbase than anilist.

              • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                9 months ago

                Oh i can imagine, it was the first site to do lists and has kept ahead for awhile. I just wish they had a better tagging system. Everything on mal has to go through shitty mods which reject a lot of pointless things.

                • asudox@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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                  9 months ago

                  Unfortunately, it is like that. I don’t see a new UI or a new system coming soon, so yeah. If the algorithm gets a certain amount of reasonable traffic, I might also add anilist support.

                  • Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                    9 months ago

                    So just wondering does your script tally each animes genres then list them in order for which appears most. Wouldnt asking peoples top three be more of a test of them knowing their own likes or is there more to it.