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Meaning of the recommendation scores

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Description

Hello, what is the meaning of the recommendation score for user-item pairs? The ones that are given by the predict() function.
I mean, is there some kind of range? How it is calculated?

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Start at the predict() entry point and its existing documentation to determine what the recommendation scores represent, whether they have a defined range, and how they are calculated. Done means the documentation clearly answers those three questions for user-item pairs.

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Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation, machine-learning
Issue type
Documentation
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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Needs clarification
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