Design and Validate Initial Restaurant Recommendation Model

Q: Design and Validate Initial Restaurant Recommendation Model

This question evaluates a candidate's competency in designing and validating recommendation systems, including feature engineering, cold-start handling, contextual and social-graph signals, offline versus online evaluation, and reasoning about multi-objective metric trade-offs.

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Restaurant Recommendations on Facebook — First-Iteration Model

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You are tasked with designing a first-iteration machine-learning system to recommend restaurants to users on Facebook across surfaces like "Nearby," Feed units, and Search.

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How would you design an initial recommendation model for restaurants (including features and handling cold-start)?
How would you validate whether the model is working (offline vs. online)?
If one performance metric rises while another drops, how would you interpret the trade-off and decide what to do?

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Cold-start (new users/items)
Feature design (user, item, context, social/graph)
Offline vs. online validation
Multi-objective optimization

Design and Validate Initial Restaurant Recommendation Model

Restaurant Recommendations on Facebook — First-Iteration Model

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