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Design a Personalized Recommendation Ranker

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Problem

You are designing a recommendation system for a consumer app that surfaces personalized suggestions from a large catalog. Users can express preferences through taps, skips, saves, and explicit settings, and the product team wants the ranking to adapt as those signals change.

Question

Given a set of user preferences, how would you optimize recommendations?