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Re-thinking Top-N recommendation lists: should recommenders always show the best content?

By Qian Zhao on October 31, 2016

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Recommender systems typically are optimized to produce a top-N list reflective of the most-highly recommended items a user has not yet rated. However, there are many reasons to believe that this order may not be the best order to present items to users, either within or across sessions.

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