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From IR to RecSys: Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Cranfield-style Recommendation Collections

How do you know which recommender system is actually best? The standard approach of holding out some user...
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Sep 22, 2026

Hypothesis-Driven Shelf Generation for Personalised Recommendation

TL;DR: We investigate whether personalised shelf concepts can be generated from listener profiles and...
Artificial IntelligenceSearch & Recommendations
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Sep 22, 2026

Who Are We Recommending To? Recommender Systems in the Agentic Web

TL;DR: Recommender systems have always assumed a human recipient butAI agents break that assumption. In our...
Artificial IntelligenceEconomics
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Sep 18, 2026

Contexts, Conversations & Connections: Spotify Research at RecSys 2026

At Spotify, we have long believed that great recommendations are about more than predicting the next track....
Artificial IntelligenceSearch & RecommendationsEvaluationEconomicsUser ModelingCausal Inference

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