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Collaborative Filtering
Recommendation technique using patterns from multiple users to predict preferences, assuming similar users like similar items.
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- Machine Learning ✓ understood
Building systems that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules, getting better at a task as they see more examples.
- Supervised Learning ✓ understood
Learning from examples paired with the correct answer, so a model can predict answers for new inputs it hasn't seen.
- Recommender System ✓ understood
AI systems that suggest items (products, content) to users based on preferences, behavior, and similarity.
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Language & LLMs Embedding A list of numbers (a vector) that represents a word, sentence, image or other item, learned so that similar items end up close together. Foundations Personalization Tailoring content, recommendations, or experiences to individual users based on their preferences and behavior. Foundations Dimensionality Reduction Techniques to reduce the number of input features while preserving important information (PCA, t-SNE, autoencoders). Foundations Clustering An unsupervised learning technique that groups similar data points together based on their features or characteristics.