I have been working with a basic CB rec sys and I already made this steps:
--Create TF-IDF vector for each item. --Get user profile according to the ratings each user has given.
And after that it seems that I can just get the similarity between the user profile and the items features vectors which fine to recommend or get a ranking. However, I need to compute a prediction for the rating because I will have to compare the results in terms of RMSE among different algorithms. In this case, I need a value (1 to 5) so I can calculate the error. What would be the best formula to use?