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One of the longstanding challenges in information retrieval is the vocabulary mismatch problem...

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

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

Imagine asking your music app to “play some old-school rock ballads to relax” and instantly receiving the...

About the author: Henrik Lindström is a Principal Product Manager, currently serving as the Product Lead for...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), offers new opportunities...

Listeners often find it challenging to navigate long podcast episodes due to their long duration. This makes...

Search engines and recommendation systems use different signals to represent users and catalog items,...

tldr - The wide variety of reasons people listen to music include both individual motivations, like...

tldr – Music has always been intertwined with place and culture. Now that digital streaming has made it...

Spotify's catalog includes millions of music tracks and podcasts and has recently expanded to Audiobooks....

There are numerous scenarios where the short- and long-term consequences of an algorithm can differ. To...