A recommender trains on data its own past recommendations produced, so it learns to confirm its own beliefs. The signal is recognizing the loop, naming the biases it breeds, and knowing the exploration and debiasing fixes that break it.
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A recommender trains on data its own past recommendations produced, so it learns to confirm its own beliefs. The signal is recognizing the loop, naming the biases it breeds, and knowing the exploration and debiasing fixes that break it.
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