YouTube’s recommendations are still bad – says Mozilla
New research published today by Mozilla backs that notion up, suggesting YouTube’s AI continues to puff up piles of “bottom-feeding”/low-grade/divisive/disinforming content — stuff that tries...
Elliot: a Comprehensive and Rigorous Framework for Reproducible Recommender Systems Evaluation [Guest Post]
In the last decade, Recommendation Systems (RSs) have gained momentum as the pivotal choice for personalized decision-support systems. The recommendation task is essentially a retrieval...
The ACM RecSys Conference becomes an ‘A’ Conference
For many years, the ACM RecSys conference — the premier conference for recommender systems — was considered a ‘B’ conference. Now, finally, the popular CORE...
Experience of using CORE Recommender – an interview
The CORE recommender is recommender-system-as-a-service and API for research-paper recommendations (similar to my own service Mr. DLib). CORE has an impressive open source repository of...
Google Android Users May Emphasize Importance of News Recommendations
Google Android phones display news recommendations on the very left virtual screen (at least on my Pixel 5 phone). Until now, users only were able...
‘Microsoft Academic’ Discontinued
Microsoft announced to discontinue its Microsoft Academic Services (MAS), including its Academic Search Engine (like Google Scholar) and Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG). This is a...
Google AI releases ‘RecSim NG’, a “Flexible, Scalable, Differentiable Simulation of Recommender Systems”
One or two years ago, Google AI released RecSim — A Configurable Simulation Platform for Recommender Systems. Now, Martin Mladenov from Google AI announced the...
Finally, the recommender systems community has its own journal: “Frontiers in Big Data | Recommender Systems”
Almost a year ago, we asked the question of why there was no journal on recommender systems? Now, there is a journal, and we applaud...
Free MOOC on Automated Machine Learning (AutoML)
Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) is one of the techniques that will greatly advance recommender systems in the near future (see also AutoRecSys). Recently, there was...
WhizzCo predicts for each page view, which recommendation provider is best
Today, I stumbled upon WhizzCo, a start-up with a great idea. WhizzCo tackles the problem that there is no single-best content recommendation-engine or advertisement platform...