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Recommender systems, also known as recommendation engines, are a type of information filtering system that seeks to predict the "rating" or "preference" a user would give to an item. They are widely used in various applications, from e-commerce and entertainment to news and social networking. The primary goal of a recommender system is to help users discover items they might be interested in, thereby improving user experience and engagement.

There are several common approaches to building recommender systems. Content-based filtering recommends items similar to those a user liked in the past, based on the item's attributes. Collaborative filtering, on the other hand, recommends items based on the preferences of other users who have similar tastes. This can be further divided into user-based collaborative filtering, which finds users similar to the target user and recommends items they liked, and item-based collaborative filtering, which finds items similar to those the target user liked and recommends them. Hybrid approaches combine multiple recommendation techniques to leverage their respective strengths and mitigate their weaknesses.

Recommender systems play a crucial role in the digital economy by increasing sales, enhancing user satisfaction, and facilitating content discovery. However, they also present challenges such as the cold-start problem, where it is difficult to make recommendations for new users or new items with no historical data, and the sparsity of data, where user-item interaction matrices are often incomplete. Evaluating the effectiveness of recommender systems typically involves metrics like precision, recall, and accuracy.