concept:candidate-generation
Candidate Generation
Candidate Generation in the context of production machine-learning systems.
Lessons
Formal explanations, examples, simulations, and checkpoints.
Recommendation, search & ranking
From corpus to slate: retrieve, score, re-rank
Diagnose recommendation quality stage by stage: coverage first, ordering second, slate policy third.
Recommendation, search & rankingClicks are not labels
A click is an exposed, policy-shaped outcome—not a universal relevance label.
Courses & assignments
Dependency-authoritative learning units.
Casebook
Reported facts and course reconstructions.