An Automatic Filtering Based on Information from a Large Number

question 55

Multiple Choice

An automatic filtering based on information from a large number of other people's past behaviors is called:

• A) distributed representations.
• B) collaborative filtering.
• C) the generalization gradient.
• D) stimulus sampling theory.

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