> Sounds like a blackbox that assumes I want to ski ... because some pics look "like" skiing or something. Or tries to say connect someone with their ex or people who look like their ex ...
Kinda. But collaborative filtering by the textbook definition tries to find the people who have those embedding and then match those nodes with other similar nodes.
So because you are a person who likes skiing, the system tries to find other people's existing preferences that likes skiing and match those to the items to show you.
Kinda. But collaborative filtering by the textbook definition tries to find the people who have those embedding and then match those nodes with other similar nodes.
So because you are a person who likes skiing, the system tries to find other people's existing preferences that likes skiing and match those to the items to show you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering