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Aiming at these problems, in present paper, we propose the similarity measure-based three-way decisions (3WD) in Pythagorean fuzzy information systems, both the binary relation and the similarity neighborhood are induced by similarity measure between objects. Each object has its own losses, different strategies are designed to rank the expected losses. Further, the similarity measure-based DTRSs dealing with crisp concept and the similarity measure-based Pythagorean fuzzy DTRSs dealing with Pythagorean fuzzy concept are developed to establish the three regions of similarity measure-based 3WD. 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