Glossary term
Glossary term
Memory and Retrieval
In a recommendation system, the entities that a system recommends. For example, videos are the items that a video store recommends, while books are the items that a bookstore recommends.
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A retail catalog team treats each SKU as an item in the recommender system and maintains a stable item ID over its life cycle.
A streaming service treats each movie as an item with metadata and a learned embedding used during candidate generation.
A music platform treats each track as an item and assigns embedding vectors used by both candidate generation and ranking.
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