Mozilla is Crowdsourcing Research into (Harmful) YouTube Recommendations [Ashley Boyd @ Mozilla]
YouTube recommendations can be delightful, but they can also be dangerous. The platform has a history of recommending harmful content — from pandemic conspiracies to...
Google restricts its recommender-system for search queries (aka auto-completion) for election-related searches
Google (Pandu Nayak, VP Search) announced yesterday that Google would expand its “protection” policies to its search-query recommender-system a.k.a. auto-completion for election-related searches. We expanded...
Facebook documents its recommender system — a little bit. [Sarah Perez @ Techcrunch]
Facebook has not been very open about how its recommender system works exactly. This may be about to change though. Today, Techcrunch announced that Facebook...
An Exhaustive List of Methods to Evaluate Recommender Systems [Muffaddal Qutbuddin @TowardsDataScience]
Imagine we have built an item-based recommender system to recommend users movies based on their rating history. And now we want to asses how our model will...
IBM gets out of facial recognition business, calls on Congress to advance policies tackling racial injustice [Lauren Hirsch @ CNBC]
Face recognition is a potentially interesting technique for recommender systems (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4). However, IBM decided now to stop all facial recognition business...
Advice on Reviewing for EMNLP — and ACM RecSys? [EMLP Blog]
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) has published a nice blog post on how to write conference reviews. It also points...
‘Papers with Code’ / NeurIPS Guidelines for Publishing Research Code: A Role Model For Recommender-Systems?
The recommender-system community is facing a reproducibility crisis. This has recently been demonstrated by the authors of the paper Are we really making much progress?...