A short paper describing the library is now available on arXiv http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.00641

This repository contains the python interface. Please have a look at https://github.com/ibayer/fastFM-core if you are interessed in the command line interface or the solver source code (implemented in C).

This repository relays on sub-repositories just using git clone .. doesn't fetch them.

git clone --recursive ..

Or do the two-step dance if you wish. You need to run git submodule update --init --recursive from within the fastFM-core/ folder in order to clone them as well.

• scikit-learn
• numpy
• scipy
• pandas
• cython

install with pip install -r /fastFM/requirements.txt

• CXSparse (included in submodule)
• glib-2.0
• gsl 1.15-1

This worked on ubuntu 14.04: sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libatlas-base-dev python-dev

first build the C libraries: (cd fastFM/; make)

inplace for development: pip install -e fastFM/

pick your favorite test runner

cd /fastFM/fastFM/tests/; py.test or

cd /fastFM/fastFM/tests/; nosetests