The purpose of a recommender system is to suggest relevant items to users. If you like to know more about the science behind it, this document helps.
A Recommender System refers to a system that is capable of predicting the future preference of a set of items for a user, and recommend the top items. One key reason why we need a recommender system in modern society is that people have too much options due to the prevalence of Internet.
It groups based on content similarity
It groups based on users similarity
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