Abstract: In a recommendation-providing method in the field of artificial intelligence, an apparatus for generating recommendations obtains a recommendation system status parameter based on a plurality of historical recommended objects and a user behavior for each historical recommended object, such as clicks or downloads. The apparatus determines a target set among lower-level sets according to the recommendation system status parameter and a selection policy corresponding to an upper-level set, where the lower-level sets and upper-level set correspond to nodes on a clustering tree representing available to-be-presented objects, and each set corresponds to one selection policy. The apparatus then determines a target to-be-recommended object from the to-be recommended objects in the target set.