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...
NVIDIA Team wins the ACM RecSys Challenge 2020
It seems that NVIDIA becomes a new big player in the recommender-system community. After introducing Merlin – a Framework for Deep Recommender Systems – and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A prototype of a “Similar Shoe” (Sneaker) Recommender-System with Source Code [Josh Barua]
Josh Barua created https://runningshoesforyou.com/, a recommender-system for shoe recommendations. Users can provide as input either a specific shoe model or their preferences (comfort; weight; looks;...