Podcast Language and Engagement
August 3, 2021 10:59 am Comments Off on Podcast Language and EngagementWhat makes a particular podcast broadly engaging? As a media form, podcasting is new enough that such questions are only... View Article
Author Archives for Spotify Engineering
Rachel Bittner: Senior Research Scientist
August 2, 2021 8:02 am Comments Off on Rachel Bittner: Senior Research Scientist10 am I’m a night person, so it takes me a while to crawl out of bed in the mornings. The... View Article
User Intents and Satisfaction with Slate Recommendations
July 27, 2021 5:01 pm Comments Off on User Intents and Satisfaction with Slate RecommendationsAn increasingly larger proportion of users rely on recommendation systems to pro-actively serve them recommendations based on diverse user needs... View Article
Spotify’s Contributions to SIGIR 2021
July 13, 2021 9:54 am Comments Off on Spotify’s Contributions to SIGIR 2021The 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2021) starts this week, and Spotify... View Article
Ben Carterette: Senior Research Manager
July 12, 2021 4:26 pm Comments Off on Ben Carterette: Senior Research Manager5.45 am I’m up early these days – my 10-month-old baby sees to that! So my first job is to give... View Article
Model Selection for Production System via Automated Online Experiments
July 9, 2021 3:32 pm Comments Off on Model Selection for Production System via Automated Online ExperimentsMachine learning practitioners regularly have to select the best model to deploy in production. At Spotify, for instance, we might... View Article
Daren Gill: Senior Director of Product
April 28, 2021 1:58 pm Comments Off on Daren Gill: Senior Director of Product6.00 am Four weeks into our road trip, we’re camped out in Ely, Nevada – beautiful, mountainous and brutally cold right... View Article
Contextual and Sequential User Embeddings for Music Recommendation
April 26, 2021 9:26 pm Comments Off on Contextual and Sequential User Embeddings for Music RecommendationUsing a music listening dataset from Spotify, we observe that consumption from the recent past and session-level contextual variables (such... View Article
Finding Structure in Users’ Evolving Listening Preferences
April 19, 2021 2:23 pm Comments Off on Finding Structure in Users’ Evolving Listening PreferencesAt Spotify, we invest into designing recommendation algorithms that allow users to explore the music space more effectively. Recent findings... View Article
Collaborative Classification from Noisy Labels
April 8, 2021 2:23 pm Comments Off on Collaborative Classification from Noisy LabelsOn online platforms such as Spotify, users have access to large collections of content. Most of the time, these collections... View Article
Jenn Thom: Research Manager
March 15, 2021 7:03 pm Comments Off on Jenn Thom: Research Manager7.00 am Time to wake up, make breakfast and start thinking about the day ahead. Because I’m interested in voice technology,... View Article
Query Understanding for Surfacing Long-Tail Music Content
March 15, 2021 1:30 pm Comments Off on Query Understanding for Surfacing Long-Tail Music ContentSearch plays an important role in surfacing content in front of users. Typical of most search and recommender systems, there... View Article
Shifting Consumption towards Diverse content via Reinforcement Learning
March 8, 2021 2:23 pm Comments Off on Shifting Consumption towards Diverse content via Reinforcement LearningAlgorithmically generated recommendations power and shape the bulk of music consumption on music streaming platforms. The ability to shift consumption... View Article
Stochastic Variational Inference for Dynamic Correlated Topic Models
February 17, 2021 6:44 pm Leave your thoughtsTopic models are useful tools for the statistical analysis of data as well as learning a compact representation of co-occurring... View Article
‘Just The Way You Are’: Music Listening and Personality
December 15, 2020 10:54 am Comments Off on ‘Just The Way You Are’: Music Listening and PersonalityMusic is such a core part of culture and everyday experience that it has long been believed to be connected... View Article
Spotify’s Contributions to NeurIPS 2020
December 7, 2020 7:02 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a... View Article
Algorithmic Effects on the Diversity of Consumption on Spotify
December 3, 2020 10:11 am Leave your thoughtsOn Spotify, people are spoiled for choice: there are millions of songs by millions of artists that they can listen... View Article
Mounia Lalmas-Roelleke: Head of Tech Research
September 28, 2020 3:27 pm Leave your thoughts7.30 am I like to get up early and have a bit of time to myself in the mornings –... View Article
The Million Playlist Dataset… Remastered
September 28, 2020 9:52 am Leave your thoughtsIn 2018, Spotify helped organize the RecSys Challenge 2018, a data science research challenge focused on music recommendation, specifically the... View Article
Spotify’s Contributions to RecSys 2020
September 21, 2020 12:45 pm Leave your thoughtsThe 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a Platinum... View Article
Understanding by Unmixing
August 25, 2020 1:19 pm Leave your thoughtsMaking sense of music by extracting and analyzing individual instruments in a song Source Separation at Spotify At the end... View Article
Giving Voice to Silent Data: Designing with Personal Music Listening History
May 15, 2020 11:10 am Leave your thoughts“Silent” data shapes our listening experiences To drive personalization and help listeners discover music, Spotify and other music streaming services... View Article
Local Trends in Global Music Streaming
May 1, 2020 8:16 pm Leave your thoughtsGoing back to the earliest forms of recorded music, technology has made it progressively easier for countries around the world... View Article
Do podcasts and music compete with one another? Understanding users’ audio streaming habits
April 20, 2020 11:35 am Leave your thoughtsBecause Spotify offers both music and podcast content on the same platform, we have a unique view into people’s audio... View Article