How Does a Recommendation Algorithm Decide What You See?

How Does a Recommendation Algorithm Decide What You See? · 1:25 · Intellect Plus

In short: Published research describes recommendation as a forecast built from signals, a candidate stage and a ranking stage, measured against engagement and business goals, while the feedback loops it creates remain largely unexplored.

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Sources used in this film: Academia.edu (hosted copy of a paper with ACM DOI 10.1145/2959100.2959190), “Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations”; arXiv (preprint by Aryan Jadon and co-authors), “A Comprehensive Survey of Evaluation Techniques for Recommendation Systems”; IEEE (IEEE Xplore; article published in IEEE's Computer magazine), “Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems”; IEEE (IEEE Xplore abstract page), “Amazon.com recommendations: item-to-item collaborative filtering”; arXiv (Cornell University); paper by Ray Jiang et al., Proceedings of AIES '19 (AAAI/ACM), “Degenerate Feedback Loops in Recommender Systems”; Springer Nature (Neural Computing and Applications), “Revisiting recommender systems: an investigative survey - Neural Computing and Applications”.

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