RecSim: A Configurable Simulation Platform for Recommender Systems [Google AI]
“Significant advances in machine learning, speech recognition, and language technologies are rapidly transforming the way in which recommender systems engage with users. As a result, collaborative interactive recommenders...
ICML 2020. Comprehensive analysis of authors, organizations, and countries [Sergei Ivanov @ Medium / Criteo]
Sergei Ivanov published a nice analysis of the authors, affiliations and countries of the ICML 2020 conference. ICML is one of the most important conferences...
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...
AI2 releases v1 of its free NLP library “AllenNLP” [Michael Schmitz / AI2 @Medium]
AllenNLP is a free, open-source natural language processing platform from AI2, designed so researchers can easily build state-of-the-art models. AllenNLP accelerates the translation of ideas into...
OpenAI makes many of its AI models available through an API
OpenAI announced to make its AI models available through an API, including its GPT-3 model. This could be very interesting for recommender systems that rely...
The Architecture Used at LinkedIn to Improve Feature Management in Machine Learning Models [Jesus Rodriguez@Medium]
The scale of the machine learning problems that an organization like LinkedIn deals with results incomprehensible for data scientists. Building an maintaining a single, effective...
Deadline for Demo Submissions to the ACM RecSys Conference Extended by 2 Weeks to the 22nd of June
The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems extends its deadline for Demo submissions to the 22nd of June. We have updated our conference calendar accordingly....
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...
Why is there no ‘International Journal on Recommender Systems’?
The data mining community has it, the information retrieval community has it, and the machine learning & AI community has it: (top) journals. It seems...
Dataset search: a survey [Chapman et al. 2020]
Finding recommender-system datasets is a challenge. The survey by Chapman et al. may help by providing a thorough overview of dataset search engines for all...