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Top 30 Recommendation Systems Interview Questions

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Recommendation Systems Theoretical Questions

Q1:   

What are Recommendation Systems?

  
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Q2:   

What is the difference between Collaborative and Content based Recommender Systems?

  
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Q3:   

What are some applications of Recommender Systems?

  
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Q4:   

How are Knowledge-based Recommender Systems different from Collaborative and Content-based Recommender Systems?

  
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Q5:   

What are the basic components of a Content-Based System?

  Related To: Naïve Bayes
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Q6:   

What is a Model-Based Collaborative approach?

  
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Q7:   

What are some Domain-Specific Challenges in Recommender Systems?

  
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Q8:   

What is the importance of Multi-Armed Bandit Methods for Computational Advertising?

  
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Q9:   

What are the differences between Computational Advertising and Recommender Systems?

  
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Q10:   

How do you maintain User Privacy when collecting Data for Recommendation Systems?

  
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Q11:   

What is the difference between Constraint-based Recommender Systems and Case-based Recommender Systems?

  
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Q12:   

What are the different methods that you can collect User Data for the Recommendation Process?

  
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Q13:   

How do you use Naive Bayes model for Collaborative Filtering?

  Related To: Naïve Bayes
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Q14:   

What are some advantages of using Neighborhood-based approaches for Recommender Systems?

  
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Q15:   

What are the different types of Memory-Based Collaborative approaches?

  
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Q16:   

How would you create a Recommender System for Text Inputs?

 PY Related To: Python
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Q17:   

What is the basic structure of a Content-Based Recommender System?

  
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Q18:   

What is the difference between Personalization Systems, User-Adaptive Systems, and Recommender Systems?

  
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Q19:   

What are some advantages of Content-Based Recommendation paradigm over Collaborative-Based Recommendation?

  
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Q20:   

How do you choose between User-Based and Item-Based Neighborhood Recommender System?

  
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Q21:   

How does the Neighborhood-based Recommendation work?

  
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Q22:   

What are the differences between Content-Based and Collaborative Methods in terms of Bias and Variance?

  Related To: Bias & Variance
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Q23:   

What is the difference between Factorisation Machines and Matrix Factorisation?

  
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Q24:   

How can SVD be used in Collaborative Filtering in Theory?

  
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Q25:   

What is the difference between Item-Item Collaborative Filtering and Market Basket Analysis?

  
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Q26:   

What is the difference between Collaborative Quality Filtering and Collaborative Filtering?

  
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Q27:   

How should Recommender Systems work in a Changing Environment?

  
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Q28:   

What algorithm does Google News Personalisation Engine use?

  
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Q29:   

Can SVD work for Recommender Systems?

  
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Q30:   

How do you extend Decision Trees to Collaborative Filtering?

  Related To: Decision Trees
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