Typewise taps 1m to build an offline next-word prediction-engine [Natasha Lomas @TechCrunch]
While really handy, recommendation systems for (next) word prediction are quite a niche, and I am not sure if there has ever been a research...
Recommender-Systems.com (RS_c) will be the ACM Recommender Systems Conference 2020
I am delighted to announce that my demo paper introducing RS_c has been accepted for publication at the 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems. I...
SIGIR 2020 Summer School Programme Online
SIGIR provides a great summer school this year with interesting talks about personalized search, offline evaluation of information retrieval (IR) systems and many more. https://sigir.org/sigir2020/summer-school/...
Adobe tests an AI recommendation tool for headlines and images [Anthony Ha @ TechCrunch]
Team members at Adobe have built a new way to use artificial intelligence to automatically personalize a blog for different visitors. This tool was built...
Free ‘Resource-aware Machine Learning’ summer school in Dortmund, Germany (virtually)
The International Summer School on resource-aware Machine Learning brings together lectures from the research area of data analysis (Machine Learning, data mining, statistics) and embedded...
Recommender-System on a Chip? Google lets you design your own (RecSys?) chip architecture — for free. [Philipp Wagner @ FOSSi]
Google and efabless announce that they would let anybody to design their own chip architectures and manufacture those chips free of charge. Maybe it is...
Google´s SmartReply comes to YouTube [Rami Al-Rfou @ Google AI Blog]
Google´s SmartReply is a handy feature in Gmail and some other applications, and it can be seen as a recommender system for sentence completion. Now,...
Building Personal Recommender Systems with Milvus and PaddlePaddle [Milvus@Medium]
In this article we use PaddlePaddle, a deep learning platform from Baidu, to build a model and combine Milvus, a vector similarity search engine, to...
Diego Gómez-Zará receives the Microsoft Research dissertation award for a RecSys to create more diverse teams
For the fourth time, Microsoft offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the research of PhD students nearing the completion of their degrees. One...
RecSim: A Configurable Simulation Platform for Recommender Systems [Google AI]
“Significant advances in machine learning, speech recognition, and language technologies are rapidly transforming the way in which recommender systems engage with users. As a result, collaborative interactive recommenders...