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Evaluate an End-to-End Recommender

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Problem

Scenario

You are working on a recommendation system for a digital product with personalized content feeds. The team wants a clear framework to judge model quality before launch and business impact after launch, across the full pipeline from candidate generation to final ranking.

Question

How would you evaluate a recommendation system end to end?

What this tests

  • Stage-wise evaluation for retrieval, ranking, and re-ranking
  • Offline metrics versus online experiment design
  • Guardrails and business impact measurement
  • Feature drift and training-serving skew awareness