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Ranking-Based Recommendation

An approach that optimizes recommendation quality by focusing on presenting items in the right order.

Ranking-based recommendation systems focus on presenting items in the right order for the user. In practice, many recommendation problems are not only about which items to choose, but also about how to rank them. As a result, ranking-oriented loss functions and top-k evaluation metrics become especially important. This directly affects user experience in e-commerce and content platforms.