Position Paper: Why the Shooting in the Dark Method Dominates Recommender Systems Practice; A Call to Abandon Anti-Utopian Thinking

D Rohde - arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.02152, 2024 - arxiv.org
Applied recommender systems research is in a curious position. While there is a very
rigorous protocol for measuring performance by A/B testing, best practice for finding aB'to …