This document summarizes a presentation given by Xavier Amatriain at the KDD conference in August 2014 about recommender systems. The presentation discusses the evolution of the recommender problem from search to discovery and recommendation. It then covers traditional recommendation methods like collaborative filtering, both memory-based and model-based using matrix factorization. It discusses ch
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