Model Selection for Production System via Automated Online Experiments
July 9, 2021 3:32 pmMachine learning practitioners regularly have to select the best model to deploy in production. At Spotify, for instance, we might... View Article
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Finding Structure in Users’ Evolving Listening Preferences
April 19, 2021 2:23 pmAt Spotify, we invest into designing recommendation algorithms that allow users to explore the music space more effectively. Recent findings... View Article
Collaborative Classification from Noisy Labels
April 8, 2021 2:23 pmOn online platforms such as Spotify, users have access to large collections of content. Most of the time, these collections... View Article
Shifting Consumption towards Diverse content via Reinforcement Learning
March 8, 2021 2:23 pmAlgorithmically generated recommendations power and shape the bulk of music consumption on music streaming platforms. The ability to shift consumption... View Article
Stochastic Variational Inference for Dynamic Correlated Topic Models
February 17, 2021 6:44 pmTopic models are useful tools for the statistical analysis of data as well as learning a compact representation of co-occurring... View Article
Spotify’s Contributions to NeurIPS 2020
December 7, 2020 7:02 pmThe Thirty-fourth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a... View Article
The Million Playlist Dataset… Remastered
September 28, 2020 9:52 am Leave your thoughtsIn 2018, Spotify helped organize the RecSys Challenge 2018, a data science research challenge focused on music recommendation, specifically the... View Article
Spotify’s Contributions to RecSys 2020
September 21, 2020 12:45 pm Leave your thoughtsThe 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys 2020) begins this week, and we are excited to be a Platinum... View Article
Understanding by Unmixing
August 25, 2020 1:19 pm Leave your thoughtsMaking sense of music by extracting and analyzing individual instruments in a song Source Separation at Spotify At the end... View Article
Spotify at RecSys 2019
October 1, 2019 3:54 pm Leave your thoughtsSpotify was out in full force at RecSys in Copenhagen. The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) is the premier... View Article
Deriving User- and Content-specific Rewards for Contextual Bandits
May 1, 2019 7:26 pm Leave your thoughtsGiven the overwhelming choices faced by users on what to watch, read and listen to online, recommender systems play a... View Article
Towards a Fair Marketplace: Trade-off between Relevance, Fairness & Satisfaction in RecSys
October 22, 2018 4:35 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo-sided marketplaces act as intermediaries that help facilitate economic interaction between two sets of agents; for example, consumers and suppliers,... View Article