‘AutoML’ is growing up with a summer school and dedicated conference
At this minute, the AutoML Workshop 2021 at the ICML conference is running. And one of the organizers, Frank Hutter, announced an AutoML Summer School...
Apple’s opt-in for cross-app advertisement leads to a 15% – 20% drop in revenue, says Brian Bowman
A few months ago, Apple changed its practice regarding user-tracking across apps. Since then, Apple requires app developers to explicitly ask users whether they agree...
How to win the SIGIR eCommerce Challenge with Transformers (Gabriel Moreira / NVIDIA)
The NVIDIA team performed well on the Session-based recommendation task of the SIGIR eCommerce Coveo Data Challenge 2021. NVIDIA achieved 1st place on the ‘Subsequent...
Microsoft introduces a machine-learning lecture/tutorials
Microsoft launched a 12-week, 24-lesson curriculum for machine learning. They cover the standard topics like linear and logistic regression and clustering but also topics like...
YouTube’s recommendations are still bad – says Mozilla
New research published today by Mozilla backs that notion up, suggesting YouTube’s AI continues to puff up piles of “bottom-feeding”/low-grade/divisive/disinforming content — stuff that tries...
Elliot: a Comprehensive and Rigorous Framework for Reproducible Recommender Systems Evaluation [Guest Post]
In the last decade, Recommendation Systems (RSs) have gained momentum as the pivotal choice for personalized decision-support systems. The recommendation task is essentially a retrieval...
The ACM RecSys Conference becomes an ‘A’ Conference
For many years, the ACM RecSys conference — the premier conference for recommender systems — was considered a ‘B’ conference. Now, finally, the popular CORE...
Experience of using CORE Recommender – an interview
The CORE recommender is recommender-system-as-a-service and API for research-paper recommendations (similar to my own service Mr. DLib). CORE has an impressive open source repository of...
Google Android Users May Emphasize Importance of News Recommendations
Google Android phones display news recommendations on the very left screen (at least my Pixel 5 phone). Until now, users only were able to remove...
‘Microsoft Academic’ Discontinued
Microsoft announced to discontinue its Microsoft Academic Services (MAS), including its Academic Search Engine (like Google Scholar) and Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG). This is a...