ACM TORS: “Just Accepted” in Summer / Autum 2025
We are glad to announce many new “just accepted” articles at ACM TORS. They cover important themes shaping the next decade of recommender-systems research. We...
ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems Shifts Social Media Focus to LinkedIn
The ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ACM TORS) journal has announced a strategic shift in its social media presence — moving its primary communication channel...
ACM TORS August/September ’25 Roundup
As the community converges on Prague for RecSys 2025 (Sept 22–26), ACM TORS has had a busy late summer: our Fall issue rolled out, multiple...
Yambda-5B, a promising dataset for recommender systems
The Yambda-5B dataset on Huggingface, introduced in the paper “Yambda-5B — A Large-Scale Multi-modal Dataset for Ranking and Retrieval” , offers a comprehensive resource for...
Is SIGIR 2025 desk-rejecting RecSys manuscripts only to reverse its decision later?
On X (Twitter), some researchers report that SIGIR 2025 had desk-rejected a large proportion of submissions (35%), most of them being related to recommender systems....
Automatic Podcast creation: Reproducibility in recommender systems research
Google released a fantastic tool to create podcasts using notes, slides, and … research papers as input! With NotebookLM, you upload content to Google; Google analyzes and...
Comprehensive AI-generated Tutorial on Using RecBole for Recommender Systems
RecBole is a versatile, unified, and efficient library designed for prototyping and benchmarking recommender systems. Built on PyTorch, RecBole supports a variety of recommendation paradigms,...
ZenDNN v5.0: A Major Step Forward for Recommender Systems Researchers and Developers
On November 15, 2024, AMD released ZenDNN v5.0, the latest deep neural network library version. This update delivers hardware-specific optimizations, including support for Zen5 EPYC™...
Netflix’s Journey: Early Challenges and the Absence of Recommender Systems in Marc Randolph’s Vision
A recent 2-hour interview with Marc Randolph, the co-founder and first CEO of Netflix, provides a fascinating look into the early days of the company....
ACM UMAP 2025: (Preliminary) Call for Papers
UMAP (B ranked) released a preliminary Call for Papers for the UMAP 2025 conference in New York from June 16 – 20, 2025. We also...