Recommendations that combine what you know with novel suggestions

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a system where a user could adjust the recommendations according to how interested they are in seeing something that may be outside of their normal content. The authors also noted that adding a global ranking algorithm that recommends items based on overall popularity could improve accuracy when little is known about the user.

via Recommendation algorithm wants to show you something new.