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...
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...
Jul 25, 2025
Optimizing Query Expansions via LLM Preference Alignment
One of the longstanding challenges in information retrieval is the vocabulary mismatch problem...
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..
Jul 22, 2025
The Hardness of Validating Observational Studies with Experimental Data
Many models at Spotify are trained using randomized data to prevent bias...
Apr 8, 2025
Text2Tracks: Improving Prompt-based Music Recommendations with Generative Retrieval
Imagine asking your music app to “play some old-school rock ballads to relax” and instantly receiving the...
Feb 4, 2025
Bridging the Product & Research gap - Part I: Demystifying Product for Researchers
About the author: Henrik Lindström is a Principal Product Manager, currently serving as the Product Lead for...
Dec 18, 2024
Contextualized Recommendations Through Personalized Narratives using LLMs
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), offers new opportunities...
Oct 24, 2024
PODTILE: Facilitating Podcast Episode Browsing with Auto-generated Chapters
Listeners often find it challenging to navigate long podcast episodes due to their long duration. This makes...
Oct 21, 2024
Bridging Search and Recommendation with Generative Retrieval
Search engines and recommendation systems use different signals to represent users and catalog items,...
Jun 6, 2024
Socially-Motivated Music Recommendation
tldr - The wide variety of reasons people listen to music include both individual motivations, like...
May 21, 2024
Exploring Local Music’s Place in Global Streaming
tldr – Music has always been intertwined with place and culture. Now that digital streaming has made it...