HetSeq: Training BERT on a random assortment of GPUs [Yifan Ding et al.]
BERT has brought huge changes to how NLP is done, and also had a notable impact on recommender systems (not always though*). However, training BERT...
Why isn’t your recommender system training faster on GPU? [Even Oldridge @NVIDIA]
Even Oldridge from NVIDIA Merlin has written a blog post about Why isn’t your recommender system training faster on GPU? (And what can you do...
Google adds personalization features to its Pixel phones
Harrison Lingren from Google announced a number of new features for Google’s Pixel phones, some relating to personalization. These features include Adaptive Sound, which adjusts...
RecSys@NeurIPS2020: 4 Papers about Recommender Systems
NeurIPS 2020 will start in a few days. Given the importance of machine learning for recommender systems, there are many relevant papers. In addition, there...