Netflix in 2006 held an open competition to find the collaborative filtering algorithm that would best predict whether or not a user would like a particular film or TV show based on previous ratings.

YouTube kicked off VidCon 2025 with a panel breaking down how to engage with the platform's algorithm and busting myths on video engagement. The discussion featured panelists Jenny Hoyos, a creator ...

Its version is called item-to-item collaborative filtering. This algorithm matches each of the current customer's purchased and rated items to similar items and then builds a list from those ...

Collaborative filtering (CF) based on the alternating least squares (ALS) technique is another algorithm used to generate recommendations. It produces automatic predictions (filtering) about the ...

All filtering algorithms operate on human input, and some are much more reliant on humans than others. Web search engines look at the links between pages, links that were put there by people.

Netflix’s and Amazon’s collaborative filtering algorithms choose products and media for us. You hear it everywhere. “Google announced a change to its algorithm,” a journalist reports.