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by jlamberts 579 days ago
Might have been k-nearest-neighbors rather than k-means. Knn can be used for "recommended because you bought X" or "users like you also bought X" type recommendations that relate user to user or item to item.

K-means could potentially be helpful to group together common users/items if e.g. you're memory constrained and don't want to give each user a fully unique embedding entry so that's also possible.

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You are correct! It was.

Thanks for the correction