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...
Could Google passage indexing be leveraging BERT? [Dawn Anderson @SearchEngineLand]
Google’s language model BERT has (and still is) created some attention in the NLP and Search community when it was released in 2018, and incorporated...
Spotify Re-Releases its Million-Playlist Dataset from the RecSys Challenge 2018
In 2018, Spotify co-organized the ACM RecSys Challenge and provided a massive dataset of 1 million playlists consisting of 2 million tracks by around 300,000...
LinkedIn introduces “GDMix”, a deep ranking personalization framework
Jun Shi from LinkedIn announced the release of GDMix (GitHub), a deep ranking personalization framework. GDMix stands for Generalized Deep Mixed Model and is… a solution...
TensorFlow introduces ‘TensorFlow Recommenders’ (TFRS)
This is big news for the recommender-system community: Maciej Kula and James Chen from Google Brain announce TensorFlow Recommenders (TFRS), an official recommender-systems package for...
Oracle announces Tribuo, a Java machine-learning library [Adam Pocock @ Oracle]
Adam Pocock from Oracle announced the public release of Oracle’s so-far in-house machine-learning library Tribuo. The library is not specifically designed for recommender-systems. Yet, it...
TensorFlow introduces a new ‘end-to-end’ solution for on-device recommendations with TFLite
Ellie Zhou, Tian Lin, Cong Li, Shuangfeng Li, and Sushant Prakash from TensorFlow announced in a blog post that they open-source an end-to-end solution for...
50% of the best-paper awards at KDD 2020 go to recommender-systems papers
KDD 2020 has announced its best-paper awards. Out of the 4 awards (3 research track, 1 applied data science track), 2 papers are related to...
Scalable Recommender Systems with NVTabular- A Fast Tabular Data Loading and Transformation Library [Ronay Ak @ Medium]
Ronay Ak et al. from RapidsAI wrote a nice in-depth post on how to use NVIDIA´s NVTabular to develop a recommender system that works with...
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...