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.

Edit: Thanks a lot, guys. I finally released the project! You can find it here: https://github.com/Asudox/anote

  • @Breezy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•4 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
      2•4 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
        3•4 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
          2•4 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
            2•4 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
              1•4 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
                2•4 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
                  2•4 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
                    2•4 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.