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M08.8 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Learn from choices that your system helped create

Two equally good books; one lands on the top shelf by luck and never leaves. Watch popularity snowball in a simulation, then learn to correct for what your system chose to show.

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Lesson overview

Two equally good books; one lands on the top shelf by luck and never leaves. Watch popularity snowball in a simulation, then learn to correct for what your system chose to show.

What you’ll explore

  • Recommendation feedback is shaped by exposure and position; offline evaluation, controlled exploration, and online outcomes must account for that selection process.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

Dive into Deep Learning — authors’ open textbookArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach — authors’ materialsUnbiased Learning-to-Rank with Biased Feedback (Joachims, Swaminathan & Schnabel, 2017)Recommendations as Treatments: Debiasing Learning and Evaluation (Schnabel et al., 2016)
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