Nov 18, 2025
Spillover Detection for Donor Selection in Synthetic Control Models
There are many situations at Spotify where A/B tests can’t be performed...
Nov 11, 2025
Learning Personalised Prices in Ad Auctions with Game Theory and Deep Learning
We introduce a new way to set personalized reservation prices in impression-based ad auctions...
Sep 23, 2025
Personalizing Agentic AI to Users' Musical Tastes with Scalable Preference Optimization
When users ask for “music for a solo night drive through the city,”...
Sep 22, 2025
Describe What You See with Multimodal Large Language Models to Enhance Video Recommendations
Recommending the right short- or long-form video...
Sep 19, 2025
Profile-aware LLM-as-a-Judge for Podcasts: A Better Middle Ground Between Offline Metrics and A/B Tests
Evaluating podcast recommendations is notoriously difficult...
Sep 18, 2025
Semantic IDs for Generative Search and Recommendation
Large Language Model (LLM)-based generative frameworks are transforming how we approach...
Sep 18, 2025
Prompt-to-Slate: Diffusion Models for Prompt-Conditioned Slate Generation
Many recommender systems present multiple items to users at once...
Sep 18, 2025
Calibrated Recommendations with Contextual Bandits on Spotify Homepage
Streaming platforms typically offer a wide variety of content types...
Sep 18, 2025
Generalized user representations for large-scale recommendations
Personalization lies at the heart of the Spotify platform...
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...
Sep 16, 2025
AudioBoost: Increasing Audiobook Retrievability in Spotify Search with Synthetic Query Generation
Spotify has recently introduced audiobooks as part of its catalog...
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...
