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Sep 18, 2025

Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits on Spotify Homepage

Streaming platforms typically offer a wide variety of content types...
Causal InferenceUser ModelingSearch & Recommendations
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Sep 18, 2025

Generalized user representations for large-scale recommendations

Personalization lies at the heart of the Spotify platform...
User ModelingSearch & RecommendationsArtificial Intelligence
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Sep 17, 2025

You Say Search, I Say Recs: A Scalable Agentic Approach to Query Understanding and Exploratory Search at Spotify

Personalized recommendations are at the heart of Spotify’s experience...
Search & RecommendationsArtificial Intelligence
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Sep 16, 2025

AudioBoost: Increasing Audiobook Retrievability in Spotify Search with Synthetic Query Generation

Spotify has recently introduced audiobooks as part of its catalog...
Search & RecommendationsArtificial Intelligence
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Sep 11, 2025

Beyond the Next Track: Spotify Research at RecSys 2025

At Spotify, we believe recommendation is about more than simply choosing the next track...
Search & RecommendationsArtificial IntelligenceEvaluationUser ModelingAudio and Visual IntelligenceSpeech and NLP
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Sep 3, 2025

Optimizing Budget Allocation with Theoretical Guarantees and Adaptive Learning

Online platforms, whether for entertainment or other personalized experiences...
EconomicsArtificial Intelligence
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Aug 21, 2025

Scaling Transformer-based Text-to-Speech with Knowledge Distillation

Transformer-based models have led to dramatic improvements in text-to-speech (TTS) quality...
Artificial IntelligenceSpeech and NLP
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Aug 7, 2025

ForTune: Running Offline Scenarios to Estimate Impact on Business Metrics

For product leaders at Spotify and other web-facing companies, making informed decisions about...
EvaluationEconomics
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Aug 5, 2025

Modality-aware Multi-task Learning to Optimize Ad Targeting at Scale

Much of our on-platform listening happens while users are occupied with something else...
Search & RecommendationsArtificial IntelligenceUser Modeling
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Jul 25, 2025

Optimizing Query Expansions via LLM Preference Alignment

One of the longstanding challenges in information retrieval is the vocabulary mismatch problem...
Search & Recommendations
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Jul 22, 2025

Local Interference: Removing Interference Bias in Semi-Parametric Causal Models

Causal inference helps us answer “what-if” questions—what would happen if we recommended a podcast instead..
Causal Inference
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Jul 22, 2025

The Hardness of Validating Observational Studies with Experimental Data

Many models at Spotify are trained using randomized data to prevent bias...
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