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Building the KNN Similarity Model

Building the KNN Similarity Model

With numerical genre vectors prepared, we now build the similarity model using the K-Nearest Neighbors algorithm. This model identifies movies that are most similar to a given movie based on genre composition.

Code:

from sklearn.neighbors import NearestNeighbors

nn = NearestNeighbors(metric='cosine', algorithm='brute')

nn.fit(tfidf_matrix)

Cosine similarity measures how closely two movies align in terms of genres. Using KNN avoids computing a full similarity matrix, making the approach more memory-efficient and suitable for larger datasets.