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There are many scenarios in which recommendation systems may be utilized; one such example is Amazon's online store. On the front page, Amazon recommends featured products developed in-house (for example, their Alexa voice-controlled assistant), "deals" specific for the user, items "inspired by your wish list," various thematic lists of recommended items (for example, "recommendations for you in sports and outdoors"), and then more traditional recommendations based on the customer's overall purchase history. Presumably, these recommendations are based on product ratings from other users, product popularity, time between purchases (in Amazon's recommendation system, buying two products close in time makes their relatedness stronger (Two decades of recommender systems at Amazon. com, Smith, Brent, and Greg Linden, IEEE Internet Computing Vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 12-18, 2017, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7927889/), the customer's own behavior ...