New in ACM TORS: Smarter Promotions, Fairer Algorithms, and the Upside of Bias
ACM TORS announces a set of three newly accepted papers in ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems that showcase the journal’s topical diversity: one pushes the...
Spotify and its recommender system has landed inside ChatGPT (for some)
From October 6, 2025, both Free and Premium listeners can connect their accounts and ask for songs, albums, playlists, or podcast episodes directly in a...
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™...