How can you build simple recommender systems with Surprise? [Amol Mavuduru]
Amol Mavuduru wrote a nice tutorial on how to build recommender systems with the Surprise Library. It should be noted, however, that Surprise is not...
‘AutoGL’, a new AutoML framework for Graphs by Tsinghua University
‘Graphs’ and linked data are highly useful in generating effective recommender systems. Also in machine learning, graphs have gained popularity. Now, researchers from Tsinghua University...
HetSeq: Training BERT on a random assortment of GPUs [Yifan Ding et al.]
BERT has brought huge changes to how NLP is done, and also had a notable impact on recommender systems (not always though*). However, training BERT...
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...
Google adds personalization features to its Pixel phones
Harrison Lingren from Google announced a number of new features for Google’s Pixel phones, some relating to personalization. These features include Adaptive Sound, which adjusts...
RecSys@NeurIPS2020: 4 Papers about Recommender Systems
NeurIPS 2020 will start in a few days. Given the importance of machine learning for recommender systems, there are many relevant papers. In addition, there...
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...
Against All Odds: Netflix, From Mail-Order DVD Rentals to Streaming Dominance [Shawn Knight @ TechSpot]
Shown Knight from Techspot writes about the history of Netflix and how Netflix evolved from a mail-order DVD rental to the world’s largest streaming service....
Apple introduces Fitness+, a “new engaging and personalized fitness experience”
Apple announced Fitness+, a new app that is supposed to enable personalized fitness workouts and hence competes with Peloton. According to Apple’s press release: Apple...
TechCrunch publishes an excerpt from ‘Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance’
Matthew Brennan and Rita Liao from TechCrunch publish an excerpt from the book Attention Factory: The Story of TikTok and China’s ByteDance. Given that the...