Building Personal Recommender Systems with Milvus and PaddlePaddle [Milvus@Medium]
In this article we use PaddlePaddle, a deep learning platform from Baidu, to build a model and combine Milvus, a vector similarity search engine, to...
Diego Gómez-Zará receives the Microsoft Research dissertation award for a RecSys to create more diverse teams
For the fourth time, Microsoft offers grants of up to $25,000 to support the research of PhD students nearing the completion of their degrees. One...
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...