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;...
Case study how simple recommendation techniques improve user experience in e-Commerce [Emilio Carrión @ MercadonaTech]
Emilio Carrión (MercadonaTech) wrote a blog post about how simple recommendations to substitute ‘ghost’ products improve conversion rate and user experience. He defines ‘ghost’ products...
NVIDIA launches “Building Intelligent Recommender Systems” online course
NVIDIA announced in their Blog to offer several new online courses, one of them about Building Intelligent Recommender Systems. The courses are taught by James...
4 out of 9 demo papers at the ACMRecSys conference relate to AutoRecSys
It’s great to see that 4 out of 9 demo papers at the 2020 ACM Recommender Systems conference relate to Automated Recommender Systems (AutoRecSys). …...
Google Podcast gets Personalized Audio News Recommendations [Liz Gannes @ Google]
“Your News Update” is coming to Google Podcast as announced by Liz Gannes, Product Manager News at Google. “Your News Update” was originally introduced in...
Facebook documents its recommender system — a little bit. [Sarah Perez @ Techcrunch]
Facebook has not been very open about how its recommender system works exactly. This may be about to change though. Today, Techcrunch announced that Facebook...