Sep 25, 2026
Bootstrapping Conversational Recommendation Agents at Spotify: Synthetic Data Generation and Self-Improvement Loops
Imagine asking Spotify to “play some fresh indie soul I might like” and then, mid-session, saying “I love...
Sep 22, 2026
From IR to RecSys: Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Cranfield-style Recommendation Collections
How do you know which recommender system is actually best? The standard approach of holding out some user...
Sep 22, 2026
Hypothesis-Driven Shelf Generation for Personalised Recommendation
TL;DR: We investigate whether personalised shelf concepts can be generated from listener profiles and...
Sep 22, 2026
Who Are We Recommending To? Recommender Systems in the Agentic Web
TL;DR: Recommender systems have always assumed a human recipient but AI agents break that assumption. In our...
Sep 18, 2026
Contexts, Conversations & Connections: Spotify Research at RecSys 2026
At Spotify, we have long believed that great recommendations are about more than predicting the next track....
Aug 7, 2026
Balancing Multiple Objectives in Generative Recommendations with Adaptive Decoding
TL;DR: We introduce Stochastic Primal-Dual Decoding (SPDD), a lightweight inference-time method that steers...
Aug 3, 2026
From Models to Products: LLMs for Recommendation at Spotify Scale
Recommender systems have become a regular part of our lives, from the home pages of our favorite apps and...
Mar 17, 2026
Cold-Starting Podcast Ads with Multi-Task Learning
Podcasts are one of Spotify’s fastest-growing content verticals, with over 750 million users discovering...
Nov 27, 2025
Transforming AI Research into Personalized Listening: Spotify at NeurIPS 2025
Spotify is proud to sponsor NeurIPS 2025...
Nov 25, 2025
Teaching Large Language Models to Speak Spotify: How Semantic IDs Enable Personalization
Spotify’s mission is to connect every listener with the right audio and help every creator be discovered...
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...
