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Collective Altruism in Recommender Systems

Data Skeptic by Kyle Polich

Feb 27, 202654:35Religion & Spirituality

Ekaterina (Kat) Fedorova from MIT EECS joins us to discuss strategic learning in recommender systems—what happens when users collectively coordinate to game recommendation algorithms. Kat's research reveals surprising fi...

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