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You should now know how to do the following:
- Describe the purpose of recommendation systems.
- Explain the components of a recommendation system including
candidate generation, scoring, and re-ranking.
- Use embeddings to represent items and queries.
- Distinguish between content-based filtering and collaborative
filtering.
- Describe how matrix factorization can be used in recommendation
systems.
- Explain how deep neural networks can overcome some of the limitations
of matrix factorization.
- Describe a retrieval, scoring, re-ranking approach to building a
recommendation system.
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Last updated 2025-08-25 UTC.
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