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package org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.similarity;

import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common.Refreshable;
import org.apache.mahout.cf.taste.common.TasteException;

/**
 * 

* Implementations of this interface compute an inferred preference for a user and an item that the user has * not expressed any preference for. This might be an average of other preferences scores from that user, for * example. This technique is sometimes called "default voting". *

*/ public interface PreferenceInferrer extends Refreshable { /** *

* Infers the given user's preference value for an item. *

* * @param userID * ID of user to infer preference for * @param itemID * item ID to infer preference for * @return inferred preference * @throws TasteException * if an error occurs while inferring */ float inferPreference(long userID, long itemID) throws TasteException; }




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