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Balancing Multiple Objectives in Generative Recommendations with Adaptive Decoding

TL;DR: We introduce Stochastic Primal-Dual Decoding (SPDD), a lightweight inference-time method that steers...
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Aug 3, 2026

From Models to Products: LLMs for Recommendation at Spotify Scale

Recommender systems have become a regular part of our lives, from the home pages of our favorite apps and...
Artificial IntelligenceSearch & Recommendations
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Mar 17, 2026

Cold-Starting Podcast Ads with Multi-Task Learning

Podcasts are one of Spotify’s fastest-growing content verticals, with over 750 million users discovering...
Search & RecommendationsArtificial Intelligence
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Nov 27, 2025

Transforming AI Research into Personalized Listening: Spotify at NeurIPS 2025

Spotify is proud to sponsor NeurIPS 2025...
Artificial Intelligence

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