CineMatch AI

Movie discovery combining content similarity, collaborative filtering and a validation-tuned hybrid ranker.

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Overview

A MovieLens recommendation pipeline with a FastAPI service, native browser interface and local Streamlit app. Title, genre and user-tag features support similar-movie discovery; saved profile ratings feed personalized ranking with a popularity fallback.

Features

• TF-IDF features and cosine similarity for related movies.
• Seeded matrix factorization with regularized user and item biases.
• Hybrid weight selection on validation data before held-out test evaluation.
• Browser-local watchlist and optional server-side TMDB / OMDb rating lookup.