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...
RecSys Summer School 2025 in Vienna Announced: A Must-Attend for Students
Yesterday, at the closing session of the ACM Recommender Systems Conference in Bari, exciting news was shared. The RecSys Summer School 2025 will take place...
ACM RecSys 2025 to be held in Prague
The next edition of the ACM RecSys Conference will take place in Prague, Czech Republic, from September 22 to 26, 2025. ACM RecSys, an A-ranked...